A Pacific coast vacation. Illustrated from photographs taken en route by James Edwin [Edison] Morris.

New York, London & Montreal: Abbey Press, Publishers, [1901]. 8vo. [14], 255, [1] pp., including 1 leaf of publisher’s ads for Morris. Title in red & black. Portrait photo frontisp., w/ tissue guard, numerous photo plates. Pictorial beige publisher’s cloth, front cover illustrated w/ image of Alaska glacier, w/ gilt, red & black, black lettering (minor scuffing, wear to cloth, a couple signatures poorly opened w/ minor closed tears, rough cut fore-edges, slightly shaken), still a VG- copy. First edition of this breezy fast-paced travel memoir of Ida & her husband James traveling from Arcola & Arthur, IL through Chicago, and points West to fulfill her lifelong dream of seeing Alaska, and the Aurora Borealis. She was insatiably curious, and frequently writes of Native Americans as they traveled by rail across the Northern United States, including tribes in Minnesota Lakes region, Dakotas, Montana, the Pacific Northwest, British Columbia, and Alaska. She also observes in Havre, Montana the African-American “Twenty-Fourth United States Infantry came aboard. . . stalwart colored soldiers who will do credit to the uniforms they wear. . . how many of these brave men would return from the deadly Philippines.” She writes details about the Salish Northwest Coast Indian legends, the First Nations peoples’ potlatches in British Columbia, and their banning by the Provincial government, along with making frequent mentions of Japanese-Americans, Chinese-Americans, and more. The couple visits the Muir Glacier, Alaska gold fields, Walla Walla in Washington State, as well as Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks. Morris (1859-1927) was a school teacher in Mattoon, IL, who married James Morris (1848-1925), local banker and merchant in 1887, and the pair traveled often.