RHYMES
of the
ROCKIES
BY
JAMES W. WHILT
SECOND EDITION
COPYRIGHT, 1922 BY JAMES W. WHILT JERRY G. MASEK
W. B. CONKEY COMPANY CHICAGO THE HAMMOND PRESS
Printed in the United States of America
PREFACE
Having spent the major part of my life in the Rocky Mountains as timber cruiser, packer, trapper and guide, I have learned to love their beauty and grandeur; enjoy their solitude and feel that they are a part of me.
It is there one can breathe the air of the Great Out Doors and gaze on mountains and glaciers whose never ending chain stretches into space and to listen to the waterfall's laughter. Where the denizens of the wild roam unmolested as they did for ages past, when man first came to this Virgin Paradise. Where camp-fires still glow at eventide,—their smoke wreaths adding incense to the freshness of the air.
While my words cannot express even in one detail the beauty as I see it, I truly and sincerely hope these few humble rhymes will paint in your mind a mental picture that time itself may impair but not erase.
With these thoughts ever vividly before me, I dedicate this book to the Rocky Mountains and their "wonder child"—the Glacier National Park.
JAMES W. WHILT.
Eureka, Montana May 25, 1922
CONTENTS
Adventurer's Luck Au Revoir Cabin of Mystery, The Call of Nature, The Chinook Wind, The Ed Enders' Grave Indian Trails Lark Song, The Memory's Camp-Fire Moonlight My Blanket-Roll My Dream My Garden My Jewels My Request My Rhymes Old Frying Pan, The Pack Train, The Pale Horse, The Passing of the Range Place Where I Was Born, The Rainy Day, The Rainstorm, The Silent Voices of the Night Snowstorm, The Springtime Streamlet, The To the Robin Trapper's Story, The Trapper's Trail, The When the Leaves Commence to Fall Winter
RHYMES OF THE ROCKIES
MY RHYMES
THE TRAPPER'S TRAIL
MY GARDEN
ADVENTURER'S LUCK
THE LARK SONG
THE TRAPPER'S STORY
TO THE ROBIN
THE PLACE WHERE I WAS BORN
MY JEWELS
THE RAINSTORM
MY BLANKET-ROLL
THE CHINOOK WIND
THE PALE HORSE
THE SNOWSTORM
SILENT VOICES OF THE NIGHT
THE PACK TRAIN
MOONLIGHT
MY DREAM
THE OLD FRYING PAN
THE RAINY DAY
THE STREAMLET
ED ENDERS' GRAVE
SPRINGTIME
THE CALL OF NATURE
MY REQUEST
MEMORY'S CAMP-FIRE
INDIAN TRAILS
WINTER
PASSING OF THE RANGE
THE CABIN OF MYSTERY
WHEN THE LEAVES COMMENCE TO FALL
AU REVOIR
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