Excerpt from The Far North-West: Being the Record, With Pictures, of a Journey Over the Canadian Pacific to Alaska, to California, to the Yellowstone, and Home by the Northern Pacific, in July, 1905 In response to return postals about 200 copies of the souvenir book were subscribed for at each. The committee found that these subscriptions would pay for printing a book of views; but would not cover the additional cost of making more than 25 or 30 half-tones of photographs taken by members of the party. Railroad and steam ship lines were asked to contribute cuts or photographs to insert in the book. They responded very generously, as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.