CONTENTS
Walter Prichard Eaton
I.
Bennie Visits the Public Library and Gives Spider a Surprise
13
II.
Bennie Takes the Rope Up His First Cliff
19
III.
How Bennie Earned a Trip to Oregon
31
IV.
Bennie and Spider Cross the Continent
39
V.
All Aboard for Crater Lake!—and Dumpling in the Other Car
50
VI.
Bennie and Spider Have to Make After-dinner Speeches, and Bennie’s Knees Knock
57
VII.
Held Up by the Snow, with the Thermometer at 86°
68
VIII.
Up the Rim of Crater Lake at Last, Through the Snow-drifts
75
IX.
The Mountain That Fell Into Itself
83
X.
Down the Rim to the Lake—The Boys Ski on a Crater Snow-drift in July
88
XI.
Dumplin’ Tests the Strength of a Snow Cornice on Garfield Peak
106
XII.
Bennie Climbs the Mast of the Phantom Ship and Knows He Has Done Something
113
XIII.
The Scouts Are Driven Ashore by a Storm and Have to Climb Llao Rock—and They Learn a Lesson
122
XIV.
Bennie Takes a Day Off to Do a Good Turn—He Washes All the Dirty Clothes
137
XV.
The Long Hike—The Scouts Find Packing Grub and Blanket Rolls Up and Down Cliffs is Hard Work
144
XVI.
The Climb Up Scott Peak—Bennie Begins Work for a Merit Badge for Hiking
154
XVII.
Good-bye to Crater Lake, and a Motor Trip to Bend
167
XVIII.
The Boys Encounter “Pep,” Who Promises Them a Bear Hunt
174
XIX.
The Bear Hunt—In Which the Boys Discover that the Bear Doesn’t Do All the Hard Work
178
XX.
Bennie Achieves a Dog, and the Party Puts Out a Forest Fire
206
XXI.
The Pack Train Has to Toboggan Into Hunt’s Cove, and Bennie Puts “Action” Into It
221
XXII.
The First Attempt at Jefferson—Dumplin’ Almost Falls to Death—The Hardest Work the Boys Ever Did
234
XXIII.
The Summit is Conquered!
262
XXIV.
Back Over the Divide—A Horse Turns Three Somersaults Down the Snow Slope
273
XXV.
Bennie Loses Jeff, but Brings Home Something Else to Last Him Many Years
280
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