The Out Trail

From "Roughing it with the Men" to "Below the Border in Wartime," Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Qui Trail features seven tales about her adventures in the West, from fishing at Puget Sound to hiking the Bright Angel Trail at the Grand Canyon. Though she was best known at the time for her mystery novels, Rinehart's travel writing, starting with her 1915 travels to the then young Glacier National Park, offers observations and insights into the fun and difficulties of early-twentieth-century travel and her fellow travelers with humor and clarity of detail that make them vivid for today's travelers.