Chapters (30)
- Steep Trails
- Illustrations
- EDITOR’S NOTE
- STEEP TRAILS
- I. Wild Wool
- II. A Geologist’s Winter Walk[3]
- III. Summer Days at Mount Shasta
- IV. A Perilous Night on Shasta’s Summit
- V. Shasta Rambles and Modoc Memories
- VI. The City of the Saints[8]
- VII. A Great Storm in Utah[9]
- VIII. Bathing in Salt Lake[10]
- IX. Mormon Lilies[11]
- X. The San Gabriel Valley[12]
- XI. The San Gabriel Mountains[13]
- XII. Nevada Farms[15]
- XIII. Nevada Forests[17]
- XIV. Nevada’s Timber Belt[19]
- XV. Glacial Phenomena in Nevada[20]
- XVI. Nevada’s Dead Towns[21]
- XVII. Puget Sound
- XVIII. The Forests of Washington
- XIX. People and Towns of Puget Sound
- XX. An Ascent of Mount Rainier
- XXI. The Physical and Climatic Characteristics of Oregon
- XXII. The Forests of Oregon and their Inhabitants
- XXIII. The Rivers of Oregon
- XXIV. The Grand Cañon of the Colorado
- Footnotes:
- [by the editor of the 1918 original of this text]:
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