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Title: Touring Alaska and the Yellowstone
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Taylor, Charles M. (Charles Maus), 1849-
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Publisher: Philadelphia : G.W. Jacobs & Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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omI have met have attracted me by their pleasantmanners, and generally prepossessing appearance. The streets here seem very much alike, and thedwellings, which are mostly built of wood, aresimilar in structure. The town is built on thesloping side of a hill, and, like all other settlementsin this region of rich, fresh and abundant watercourses, and extensive forests, carries on largefisheries and sawmills. The natives are about asuninviting as those we have seen elsewhere uponour journey, although it is said that the women ofthis district are expert and industrious, being notedfor their skill in weaving, and their artistic designsin coloring and combining figures in their baskets ;while the men display curious and original carvingson silver bracelets, horn and wooden souvenirs, andlittle totem poles. In the heart of the town, thenatives may be seen daily, sitting upon the ground,along the sidewalks of the principal streets, offeringfor sale, fish, berries, vegetables, and their little
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Ascending Summit White Pass See page 213 Juneau, and the Famous Treadwell Mine 179 stock of curios. These women, for the market iscarried on chiefly by women, sit huddled up be-hind their wares, wearing great, heavy woolenblankets over their shoulders, with a similar, butsmaller covering for their heads. They are evidentlymuch distressed by my attempts to photograph them,and shrink together if a camera is but pointed atthem. They have a peculiar fashion of drawingtheir shawls over their heads whenever this is done.Unless they are taken unawares, the snap shot provesan utter failure. The only way is to stand in theneighborhood, apparently unconcerned, or interestedonly in what they have for sale and snap the camerawithout their knowledge. Throughout the American settlements, the greatestenthusiasm is manifested over the holidays, such asChristmas, Washingtons Birthday and the Fourthof July. I have a gorgeous placard in flaming redand blue letters ; a sample of hundreds scatteredover th

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