Show I i Couple Coup Takes W W. W Weird eird i r-p r Trip I rip In Wilds By Newspaper Enterprise HUTCHINSON Kan June 9 The The lure of adventure ad and the desire for more material for truly wild wild animal ani animal ani- ani mal stories have bave called Hal G. G Evarts noted author and his wife into the far tar north on the worlds world's oddest journey And before their four tour months' months trip is completed they will have traveled by train stage horseback river steamer ocean steamship dogsled canoe ca- ca ca canoe aI a- a noe and on foot Evarts has spent most of his life in inthe inthe the wilds and ancI has put a share of them I into two of his works The Cross Pull pun and The Yellow Horde His wife hailing from the flatlands of Kansas has been on shorter trips into the lands of the animal kingdom A train took them on the first leg of the trip from Hutchinson to Edmonton Edmonton Edmonton Ed Ed- monton Canada Stage and horseback carried them to a point on the Atha- Atha baska river where a fur collecting steamer will slip through to the Great Salt lake and down the Mackenzie river to the Arctic ocean The Mac Mac- MacI I kenzie kenzle trip alone is a journey of 1650 miles The adventurers will hike across the mountains of the continental divide a distance of thirty five miles mUes Then they will wilI canoe on the Porcupine ri river r to its confluence with the Yukon then I up the Yukon by steamer to the tho head of navigation next by dogsled to a railroad at White Horse A A. train will take them to the coast and an ocean steamer to Seattle The rhe last lap will be via train back to Hutchinson The call of the wild carried f Evarts to Cody Wyo early in life He lie had a silver fox and skunk farm During Durin the winter months while snow snowed d in he wrote much about wild animals It was not until after his return from service I in the World war that Evarts hart hail these worl works s published Someone had left his skunk farm gate open and he turned to selling stories for a living |