Edwin Way Teale - Journey into Summer: A Naturalists Record of a 19,000-Mile Journey through the North American Summer

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JOURNEY INTO SUMMER

BY

EDWIN WAY TEALE

A NATURALISTS RECORD OF A 19,000-MILE JOURNEY THROUGH THE NORTH AMERICAN SUMMER

WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE AUTHOR

Contents

EDWIN WAY TEALE is a literary naturalist who is described by The Saturday Review as a writer, naturalist and photographer who excels in all three branches of his art. He has been awarded the John Burroughs Medal for distinguished nature writing. His books have been published in England and in French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish and Braille editions. He is a past-president of the New York Entomological Society, a member of The Explorers Club, a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences and an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society. In North With the Spring he explored a new field, the natural history of a season. The story of a 17,000-mile journey, keeping pace with the advance of spring up the North American map, it forms the first of a projected series of four books on The American Seasons. Autumn Across America adds another volume to this monumental series. In an adventurous, wandering, 20,000-mile journey, it carries the reader from Cape Cod to California through the most colorful season of the year. Now Journey Into Summer takes the reader from northern New England along the shore of the Great Lakes, south through the corn country and into the high Rocky Mountains, for another 19,000 miles of nature exploration through the American summer.

THE FIRST SEASON

NORTH WITH THE SPRING

THE SECOND SEASON

JOURNEY INTO SUMMER

THE THIRD SEASON

AUTUMN ACROSS AMERICA

Dedicated to

D A V I D

Who Traveled with

Us in Our Hearts

FROM Fay H. Young, Captain of the Resolute , who carried us safely through the storm on the Lake of the Woods, to Mrs. Joseph A. Estabrooks, Postmistress of Hampton, Connecticut, who weighed a silver dollar, my thanks for varied helpbefore, during and after our summer journeyis extended to many persons. Some aided us in reaching places we wished to visit. Others read portions of the manuscript. Others supplied missing facts or helped in the identification or understanding of what we had seen. Still others offered the benefit of their specialized knowledge. I am indebted particularly to the following:

John W. Aldrich, Dean Amadon, Alfred M. Bailey, Gladys Baker, Charles M. Bogert, Rachel L. Carson, O. H. Clark, James Cope, William S. Creighton, Allan D. Cruickshank, Helen G. Cruickshank, Thomas C. Desmond, John Doerr, Frank Dufresne, Philip DuMont, Mrs. Joseph A. Estabrooks, V. C. Fishel, James Forbes, Irving Friedman, Donald V. Gray, Elizabeth C. Hall, Merrill Hammond, Walter Harding, Inez Haring, Cordia J. Henry, Bob Hines, Lockwood Jaynes, Clifford Keech, John Kieran, Oren Kimberly, Alexander B. Klots, Wendell Lamb, Russell Lee, Harold G. Male, Karl Maslowski, Harold F. Mayfield, Harold N. Moldenke, Stanley Muliak, Roy Muma, Robert J. Niedrach, H. H. Nininger, Harry C. Oberholser, John Pallister, Clint Paulson, George H. Peters, Roger T. Peterson, P. P. Pirone, Richard H. Pough, Harold W. Rickett, Herbert Ruckes, T. C. Schnierla, Herbert F. Schwarz, James A. Selby, Gertrude Selby, Roy W. Sheppard, Ralph P. Silliman, James Slater, Ken and Ada Slater, H. T. U. Smith, Marshall Sprague, James Thorp, Emma Toft, Olivia Traven, Asher Treat, A. H. Whittemore, Farida A. Wiley, M. Wood-bridge Williams, Raymond D. Wood, Mary V. Wissler, Fay H. Young.

I am especially under obligation to Benjamin T. Richards, a friend of long standing, for copy-editing the manuscript, checking galleys and page proofs and preparing the index. His assistance has been invaluable.

Prior to book publication, the chapter on Stone Dragonflies appeared in Audubon Magazine . I wish to express my thanks to the editor for permission to include the material in this volume.

As on numerous occasions before, during more than two decades of close and cordial relationship, I am well aware of how deeply I am indebted to members of the Dodd, Mead staff in the editing and production of the book, particularly to Edward H. Dodd, Jr., Raymond T. Bond, S. Phelps Platt, Jr., John Blair and Ruby Carr.

Finally, I am sure that the reader will understand that my debt to my wife, Nellie, the most congenial companion for all seasons of the year, is greater than can be set down in words.

June 11, 1960

EDWIN WAY TEALE

Sunday River

Robin at nest

Painted trillium

Violets, foam flowers and ferns

The green spleenwort

Mayflies on a tree trunk

Barn swallows ready to leave the nest

The last swallow to leave

The Kankakee River in summer

George H. Peters and his high rocks

Firefly on a grass head

Fawn

Northern bog at sunset

Showy ladys slipper

Red squirrel

Least chipmunk

Nellie

Rushes at the Souris refuge

Dry stream in Montana

Erosion gully in dry country

Thunderhead over a wheat field

The rim of the world

Buffalo rubbing rock

Prairie dogs under Devils Tower

Visiting prairie dogs

A prairie dog eating

Alert prairie dog

Sitting beside the burrow entrance

Emerging into the summer sunshine

Willow beside the Arkansas River

Mud flats near the Great Salt Plains

Cactus

Above timberline in the Rockies

Mountain meadow

Alpine goldflower

Arctic gentian

Queens crown

Yellow paintbrush

Bistort

Colorado columbine

Rocks in a mountain meadow

Florissant shale bed

Fossil leaf of prehistoric water elm

Fossil cranefly from Florissant

Engelmann spruce near treeline

Gunnison country near Emerald Lake

Timberline tree

Storm-wracked spruce at timberline

Spiral grain in dead tree

Lemonweed among the Great Sand Dunes

Stream disappearing at the edge of the dunes

Shadow of Pikes Peak