Excerpt from The River Motor Boat Boys on the Columbia: Or the Confession of a Photograph
The motor boat Rambler lay at the very summit of the Rocky Mountains. She was not in a lake, either, although there were lakes of ice not far away. She was not in motion, and there was a great silence all around her.
She lay, propped upright, on a platform car, and the car, with two broken wheels, stood on a make-shift spur of track on the right-of-way of the Canadian Pacific railroad. An unusual place to find a motor boat. But listen.
The Rambler was en route from the South Branch, Chicago, to the headwaters of the Columbia river.
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