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glimmering hope that it might be visible, but discarded the thot as it was still heavily overclouded.  On leaving the dining room I went to the office window and - there it stood in all its grandeur!  The sun rose on its shoulders & the mountain stood out dark against a coppery background that was reflected in the sound.  White mist rising from the deep canyons below the snow line of the flank made the mountain seem higher. As I went out to Stielacoom - knowing that there might be further delay - the mountain was white between the spruces, & as I took the train from Tacoma the next day the afternoon light touched [[strikethrough]] it [[/strikethrough]] up its snowy sides giving life to it.
Vernon joined me at Pasco, & we got off a Spokane to try to get the lost camera. Spokam is a most satisfactory town.  It has an air of freshness, newness in the up-to-date sense - substantial business blocks, stores that reflect the business activity - great mills along the falls.  It seems a live modern city like Minniapolis & St Paul without the old growth.  Took the sleeper that night (Sunday) and went on there as far as Bismark. U.D. We crossed Idaho the first night and spent the day & second night in Montana.  At
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Missoula, where it was frosty - trees & grass & reeds white with it - in waiting for a freight wreck & finally passed on one side the wreckage and on the other a new ^ [[instertion]] coffin [[/insertion]] box in a lumber wagon by a newly made grave - ahead the poster giving gruesome details.  From Missoula we began climbing the Rocky Mts. going thro Hillgate Canyon & climbing gradually up on a broad topped low pass - here & there mt. meadows & ^[[insertion]] g't [[/insertion]] stands of narrow murray pine.
Came down onto big plains & passed thru Helma, & at dusk - Livingston - which surprised us by its station till we learned that it was the starting point for the Yellowstone.  The next mg. we woke near the boarder line of North Dakota & until we reached Bismark were in the bad land country, with coal seams - surface coal - red banks baked by burning coal strata.  In one place we passed an enormous dump of lignite coal by the track - uncovered - to be sold to the people - no other fuel.  Montana - plains - Dakota - prairie. Montana - gulelus with trees & bushes. Dakota - [[coulers?]] without trees or bushes - in the main.
[[underlined]] North Dakota [[/underlined]] Bismark. We stopped off for the zone map at Bismark on the east side of the Missouri.  The air was cold but bracing