Identifier: seeingamericafir418colb (find matches)
Title: Seeing America first : with the Berry brothers
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Colby, Eleanor Pfeiffer, F. W, ill Berry Brothers
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Publisher: Detroit : Berry Bros.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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trees, cousins of the big sequoias. As you go higherand higher in a mountainous country, the trees grow smaller and smaller until they become dwarfs.Our guide showed us trees fully sixty years old whose trunks were no larger than a pencil. The largest mass of solid rock in the world is in Yosemite Park. The Indians used to worshipit as the great chief of the valley and the early Spaniards named it El Capitan which means TheCaptain. On a clear day the people in the San Joaquin valley sixty miles away can see thisgiant rock. The cascades of the Yosemite Park are among the finest on earth. The Bridal Veil is like ashower of lace or mist and is called the birthplace of the rainbow, because there are so manyrainbows playing in the spray. One of the cascades is called by the queer Indian name of Lung-oo-too-koo-ya. The Yosemite Falls would make Niagara seem like a dwarf so far as height isconcerned, though a much larger volume of water flows over the rocks at Niagara than atYosemite Falls.
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Today we Berry Wagon Boys have seen the oldest living thing. It began to grow at least2000 years before Christ was born, and will probably be living thousands of years from now. Ifit could talk, it could tell wonderful stories of things it saw when the world was young, but itcan only stand and wave its arms gently when the wind blows, for it is just a tree. It stands withmany other giant cedar trees in Sequoia Park, California, and until a hunter discovered it in 1879,probably no white man had ever seen it. This hunter named the tree General Sherman, andit surely looks like the commanding officer of this huge tree regiment. It is a sequoia tree 279feet high and so large that twenty men standing with outstretched arms can just reach around it. The Grizzly Giant, the biggest sequoia in Yosemite Park, is much more shaggy-looking andbattered than the general, and its heart has been eaten out by fire, but it is a brave old giant andkeeps right on living in spite of that painful accident. T

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