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title	:	The Mountain : Renewed Studies in Impressions and Appearances
author	:	Van Dyke, John Charles.
publisher	:	University of Utah Press
isbn10 | asin	:	087480387X
print isbn13	:	9780874803877
ebook isbn13	:	9780585112121
language	:	English
subject	Mountains.
publication date	:	1992
lcc	:	GB511.V3 1992eb
ddc	:	551.4/32
subject	:	Mountains.

Page i The Mountain

Page ii From a photograph, copywright by G. P. Abrahamm, Keswick The Weisshorn from above Tsch Alp.

Page iii The Mountain Renewed Studies in Impressions and Appearances By John C. Van Dyke Foreword by Peter Wild University of Utah Press Salt Lake City

Page iv Copyright 1916 Charles Scribner's Sons Foreword copyright 1992 University of Utah Press The paper in this book meets the standards for permanence and durability established by the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932. The mountain : renewed studies in impressions and appearances / by John C. Van Dyke; foreword by Peter Wild. p. cm. Originally published: New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1916. ISBN 0-87480-387-X (alk. paper) 1. Mountains I. Title. GB511.V3 1992 551.4 '32dc20 91-51096 CIP

Page v Contents Foreword By Peter Wild vii Preface-Dedication xv I. From Afar 1 II. Mountain-Making 20 III. The Hills 39 IV. Foot-Hills and Rock Bases 61 V. The Timber-Line 80 VI. The Uplands 102 VII. Mountain Waters 122 VIII. Glaciers and Avalanches 141 IX. The Snow-Line 161 X. Spines and Wedges 180 XI. Blue and Silver 199 XII. The Ranges 216

Page vi Page vii Foreword About a hundred and twenty years ago, a band of Sioux Indians left its home camp in eastern Minnesota and struck out into the unsettled western plains. This was the Indians' traditional summer hunt to fatten their larders with buffalo meat for the lean winter months to come. Nothing unusual marked the trip, except one thing. With the group rode a white boy in his early teens. He was their young friend, John C. Van Dyke, the son of a wealthy family recently moved from crowded New Jersey to the western frontier. The future art critic was entering a world far wilder than his pioneer homestead on the wooded banks of the Mississippi River, and the experiences aheadthis brief gaze into the disappearing primitive beauty of the continentwould change him forever. Over the following weeks and months the little group roamed, like a ship on an untraveled sea, for thousands of miles, ever farther into what was then a mostly unsettled kingdom. Out there, remembers Van Dyke, "All space was ours, time was not.... " Following the herds, killing buffalo as they went, the Indians crossed the Bad Lands of present-day South

Page viii Dakota and zigzagged west until the Big Horn Mountains of the Wyoming Territory loomed before them. They swam the Yellowstone River and somewhere in central Montana turned north to begin a leisurely circle homeward. Weeks later, they once again recognized what Van Dyke acidly calls "the savage edge of civilization" In white men's terms, it was a strenuous, if not heroic, trip. Young Van Dyke rode a half-wild Indian pony, bareback or with a moose hide for a saddle; with the rest of his friends, the boy scrounged for food and slept on the ground. With the band he dashed up and down ravines in bone-jolting pursuits and endured the hot plains sun. Broken bones, snakebite, and attacks by hostile Cheyennes were simply what one risked on such adventures, but risked stoically: "To look out for yourself, to ask no questions, and to make no murmur" were the Indians' rules of the road. There were no whiners among these hunters. Chances are, however, that neither heroism nor hardship were foremost in the boy's mind. At the time, John probably had little idea how unusual his trip was in the historical sense And as to hardships, the young pioneer already had learned to accept them as a matter of course, learned that a person either rose above difficulties or let them drag him

Page ix down. Van Dyke concentrated on the important things, the immediate and continuing thrill of the trip, the "mad fascination" of exploring new lands. Not only that but reveled in the visual treasures all around him, the "clouds of ducks pouring in at dusk" over a prairie lake, the delicate lilac hue of his horse's moving shadow. Years later he recalls the scouts sent out from camp to make a final check for enemies before night fell, the "half-naked Sioux silhouetted against the blood-red twilight, each one bunched over his pony's shoulder and peering catlike into the gathering gloom"

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