letterhead Montana Sep 10 1898 My dear Helen I am now in the Rocky Mountains, going through a forest of beautiful larches
on the bank of a branch of the Kootenai River. Mixed with the larch there are a good many Yellow Pines tree? leaved Mosentine
pines Rocky Mountain Spruce birch small maples. It is a calm sunny day rather warm but I am enjoying the trip very much. It's
hopeless to try to tell you about it with horrid pen the swaying jolting jumbling car I had a fine view of Mt Shasta the Rogue
River Valley from peaches at Ashland. fine company who of course kept me talking but my throat stood the strain pretty well.
At Portland I saw had a long interesting talk with Lieut Wood about his visit to Glacier Bay two years before mine The views
up the Columbia were very fine the maples read yellow 02470