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WILDERNESS
A JOURNAL OF QUIET
ADVENTURE IN ALASKA
BY ROCKWELL KENT
ROCKWELL
ALASKA MCMXVIII
WILDERNESS
A JOURNAL OF QUIET ADVENTURE
IN ALASKA
BY
ROCKWELL KENT
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press
1920
COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY ROCKWELL KENT
PLATES ENGRAVED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF WILLIAM G. WATT
THE KNICKERBOCKER PRESS, NEW YORK
To
old L. M. Olson and
young Rockwell Kent
of Fox Island
this journal is
respectfully dedicated
The author acknowledges the courtesy of the owners of hisdrawings in permitting their reproduction in this book:
MRS. ERNEST I. WHITE
ROBERT NICHOLS
STEPHEN C. CLARK
MRS. PAYNE THOMPSON
MRS. JOSEPH FLANNERY
MRS. J. S. MORGAN, JR.
DR. ARNOLD KLEBS
HENRY S. CHURCHILL
MRS. PERCY W. DARBYSHIRE
MRS. MEREDITH HARE
PAUL MANSHIP
MRS. VALENTINE WINTERS
HENRY NEWMAN
HUNT DIEDERICH
PURCELL JONES
M. KNOEDLER AND COMPANY
ALBERT STERNER
MARIE STERNER
INTRODUCTION
Had jesting Pilate asked “What is Art?” he would have waited quite asmany centuries for an answer as he has for the answer to his questionabout Truth. For art to