Identifier: glimpsesofournat01unit (find matches)
Title: Glimpses of our national parks
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: United States. National Park Service Yard, Robert Sterling, 1861-1945
Subjects: National parks and reserves
Publisher: Washington, Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Arizona.That is the one always meant when people speak of visiting theGrand Canyon, without designating a location. It is the giant ofcanyons. GRAND CANYON OF THE YELLOWSTONE The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is altogether different.Great though its size, it is much the smaller of the two. What makesit a scenic feature of the first order is its marvelously variegatedcoloring. It is the cameo of canyons. Standing upon Inspiration Point, which pushes out almost to thecenter of the canyon, one seems to look almost vertically down uponthe foaming Yellowstone River. To the south a waterfall nearlytwice the height of Niagara rushes seemingly out of the pine-cladhills and pours downward to be lost again in green. From that point 2 or 3 miles to where you stand and beneathyou widens out the most glorious kaleidoscope of color you will eversee in nature. The steep slopes dropping on either side a thousandfeet and more from the pine-topped levels above are inconceivably OUR NATIONAL PARKS. 17
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rhotograph by J. E. Haynes, St. Paul The Gorgeously Colored Caxyon, Yellowstone National Park Showing the Great Falls of the Yellowstone. 308 feet high. carved and fretted by the frost and the erosion of the ages. Some-times they lie in straight lines at easy angles, from which jut highrocky prominences. Sometimes they lie in huge hollows carved fromthe side walls. Here and there jagged rocky needles rise perpendicu-larly for hundreds of feet like groups of gothic spires. And the whole is colored as brokenly and vividly as the field of akaleidoscope. The whole is streaked and spotted and stratified inevery shade from the deepest orange to the faintest lemon, from deepcrimson through all the brick shades to the softest pink, from blackthrough all the grays and pearls to glistening white. The greens arefurnished by the dark pines above, the lighter shades of growthcaught here and there in soft masses on the gentler slopes and the125862°—20 2 18 OUR NATIONAL PARKS. foaming green of th

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