Either the Northern Pacific wanted a change or Alfred Lenz got tired of working in clay, so the cover of the 1904 Wonderland is this impressionistic view of a Yellowstone geyser. The painting wraps around to the back of the booklet, making Yellowstone’s Firehole Canyon look truly like a fire-filled nightmare. Unfortunately, there is no signature on the painting; Lenz is the only artist who can be identified with the Wonderland series.

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Inside are articles about wild game, lignite coal in North Dakota, Yellowstone, a follow-up on Northwest irrigation, and more on Lewis & Clark. The Lewis & Clark article is really about the centennial of their expedition and describes the planned Portland exposition and recent books on the explorers. Of seven books, Wheeler modestly lists his two-volume work fifth.

Wheeler notes that Eva Emery Dye‘s book, The Conquest, has “has recently done more to revive the popular interest in Lewis and Clark and their work than any other.” Dye was noted for writing historical fictions that mixed facts with her imagination of what happened. Most importantly, Dye popularized Sacagawea as an important part of the expedition. A suffragette herself, Dye noted that Lewis & Clark gave the Shoshone woman a vote when they consulted their group about whether to build a fort to overwinter on the Oregon Coast. This made both Dye and Sacagawea heroines of the suffragette movement.

As usual, the archive.org PDF of this booklet is smaller, at 15 MB, than mine. I’ve removed library markings and brightened some of the pages, but if you have a slow internet connection you may want to download the archive version.