This book is a paper covered edition of the only authentic history and description of this world-renowned Valley published.
It is written by Col. J. M. Hutchings, who was for sixteen years the Valley's guardian, and who knows better than any other man its thundering cataracts, its glaciers, its placid lakes, its lofty mountains, together with the best ways of reaching them.
It contains nearly 500 pages, 134 illustrations, official maps of the valley and its surroundings, the best routes for entering it, tables of distances, etc. etc. In short it is
A Complete Guide Book to this Wonderful Valley
If you have been to the Valley, you will want this book to more vividly bring back to your mind its inspiring scenery. If you are going to the Valley you will want an inexpensive yet accurate guide that you may the better economize your time while there. If you have not gone and can not go, you will want the book because its illustrations are so real, and the reading so interesting and entertaining, that you will gain all the data and much of the enjoyment of an actual trip, without its attendant expense.
