Hudson Stuck > Quotes

“Johnny had killed four mountain-sheep and a caribou while we were gone, and not only had fed the dogs well, but from time to time had put aside choice portions expecting our return. But what was most grateful to us and most extraordinary in him, the boy had saved, untouched, the small ration of sugar and milk left for his consumption, knowing that ours was all destroyed; and we enjoyed coffee with these luxurious appurtenances as only they can who have been long deprived of them. There are not many boys of fifteen or sixteen of any race who would voluntarily have done the like.”
― Hudson Stuck, The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America

“Mr. Robert G. Tatum of Tennessee, just twenty-one years old, a postulant for holy orders, stationed at the mission at Nenana, had”
― Hudson Stuck, The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America

“One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great upper basin of Denali. ”
― Hudson Stuck

“So Mr. Jenkins undertook the building of a new place of worship, and, in part under his own hands, an attractive and churchly building arose, costing some $3,000, dedicated to St. John.”
― Hudson Stuck, The Alaskan missions of the Episcopal Church : a brief sketch, historical and descriptive

“they were slowly learning English, not to the superseding of the native tongue but to the supplementing of it, bilingualism being the proper present goal of the Yukon Indians.”
― Hudson Stuck, The Alaskan missions of the Episcopal Church : a brief sketch, historical and descriptive

“It is very easy to misunderstand a strange people, and very hard to understand them thoroughly.”
― Hudson Stuck, Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska

“the water-ousels darted in and out under the ice, singing most sweetly; the willows, all in bud, perfumed the air; and Denali soared clear and brilliant, far above the range, right in front of us. Here”
― Hudson Stuck, The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America