Purcell and Elmslie, Architects Firm active: 1907-1921 Minneapolis, Minnesota :: Chicago, Illinois Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :: Portland, Oregon

Island Lake Lumière autochrome William Gray Purcell  1914

W. C. Gray with the catch of the day

Margaret Bosquet making reed floor mats for the cabins

William Gray Purcell, his brother Ralph, and cousin Dorothy Gray in an early example of organic architectural design

Contents

• Preface
• A Word Introductory
• Camp-Fire Musings

1.  The Camp-Fire
2.  Nature and the Supernatural
3.  Nature and Culture
4.  Nature's Music, Art, and Industry
5.  The Tragical in Nature
6.  The Music of the Spheres
7.  Hunting
8.  Nature's Intelligence
9.  Refreshing Rain
10.  This Paradise of Ours
11.  Through a Forest

• Musings of the South

12.  Wayside Musings [#1]
13.  Wayside Musings [#2]
14.  Wayside Musings [#3]
15.  Aspects of Southern Prosperity
16.  The South--Scenic and Educational

• Alaskan Musings

17.   Snoqualmie Falls
18.   Along the Northern Line
19.   Aboard the "Bear"
20.   Alaskan Volcanoes
21.   Dutch Harbor
22.   Among the Islands
23.   Scenic Grandeur of Alaska
24.   At Orca
25.   The Alaskan Mines

• What Adam Did in Eden

26.   The Realms of Mystery
27.   The Adam of Genesis
28.   Adam's Wife
29.   Adam the Hunter