HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS OF THE PACIFIC COAST

INCLUDING THE STATES OF
WASHINGTON
CALIFORNIA
ARIZONA
OREGON
NEVADA
IDAHO
AND THE
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK

WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY
CLIFTON JOHNSON

Published by THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
New York

MCMXV

LONDON : MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
Copyright, 1904,
by the Macmillan Company.

Set up and electrotyped.
Published April, 1905.
Reprinted September, 1913.
Reprinted February, 1915.

AMERICAN
HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS
CALIFORNIA

Electrotyped
and
Printed
by the F. A. Bassette Company Springfield, Mass.


At the Fountain - Santa Barbara


Contents

I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. XV.

The Grand Canyon of Arizona On the Borders of Mexico A Rustic Village Spring in Southern California Santa Barbara and its Historic Mission A Vale of Plenty April in the Yosemite Around the Golden Gate A Nevada Town with a Past Among the Shasta Foothills Oregon Farm Life Along the Columbia On the Shores of Puget Sound At the Edge of Canada The Niagara of the West

Illustrations

At the Fountain — Santa Barbara
The Grand Canyon of Arizona
A Guide on the Bright Angel Trail
Descending the Corkscrew
In the Depths of the Canyon
Indian Blanket Weaving
Early Spring
The Launching of the Ship
Crossing at a Ford
A Mexican
The Story Book
Among the Arches of the Old Mission
An Indian Family
On the Porch at the Village Store
The Vineclad Verandah of an Old Spanish Home
The Cliffs of Santa Catalina
Comrades
Schoolgirls
Enroute for Death Valley
Garden Work
Meditation
The Artist
At Work in a Home Yard
The News
Water for Irrigation
At Work Along an Irrigating Ditch
A Prospector and His Outfit
The Road to the Mountains
The Valley of the Yosemite
The Yosemite Falls
The Grizzly Giant
Looking from the Fishermen’s Wharf towards the Golden Gate
A Glimpse of the Shipping
A Main Thoroughfare in Chinatown
The View across San Francisco Bay to Mt. Tamalpais
A Prospector
The Tinker
Making Firewood of the Sagebrush
A Deserted Wigwam
The White Peaks of Mt. Shasta
The Well at the Back Door
Hoboes Getting Dinner
Washing Day
At the Gate
The Milkmaids
Schoolboys
A Hollow Among the Hills
Mending a Salmon Net
A Salmon Wheel
Woodland Blossoms
In a Village on the Columbia
Mending a Shoe
Starting to Fell a Giant Cedar
In the Garden
Burning Brush
Getting Ready to Plant Potatoes
Visiting at the Gate
A Corduroy Bridge
A Log House
Planting Time
A Jack Rabbit in Sight
The Niagara of the West
The Ferry Above the Falls

 

This volume includes chapters on characteristic, picturesque, and historically attractive regions in the states of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, and Arizona, and a chapter on the Yosemite National Park.

The notes appended to each chapter give valuable information concerning automobile routes, and many facts and suggestions of interest to tourists in general.

Introductory Note

The several volumes in this series have as a rule very little to say of the large towns. Country life is their chief topic, especially the typical and the picturesque. To the traveller, no life is more interesting, and yet there is none with which it is so difficult to get into close and unconventional contact. Ordinarily, we catch only casual glimpses. For this reason I have wandered much on rural byways and lodged most of the time at village hotels or in rustic homes. My trips have taken me to many characteristic and famous regions; but always in both text and pictures I have tried to show actual life and nature and to convey some of the pleasure I experienced in my intimate acquaintance with the people.

These “Highways and Byways” volumes are often consulted by persons who are planning pleasure tours. To make the books more helpful for this purpose each chapter has a note appended containing suggestions for intending travellers. With the aid of these notes, I think the reader can readily decide what regions are likely to prove particularly worth visiting, and will know how to see such regions with the most comfort and facility.