Identifier: threewonderlands00murp (find matches)
Title: Three wonderlands of the American West; being the notes of a traveler, concerning the Yellowstone park, the Yosemite national park, and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, with a chapter on other wonders of the great American West
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Murphy, Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler), 1866-1928
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Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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feel no thrill from the awe-inspiring sense of inconceivable vastness? The Sunset State is indeed an empire of it-self, a wide domain of fruitful vales, of deadlydeserts, of snow-clad peaks, of titanic forests,with pretty villages, great cities and thousandsof pleasant resorts that fitly make it a nationsplayground as well as a home for its own favoredpeople. Long Beach, Santa Barbara, SantaCatalina, Riverside, Pasadena, and a score ofother seaside and inland resort towns arefamous, but to my mind the queen of them all isMonterey, with its never-to-be-forgotten HotelDel Monte. Here indeed is the culmination ofall the glorious color and languorous delights ofthe Golden State, a spot that may match Caprior Sorrento in their happiest moods. The lovelylittle bay, the beetling cliffs that overhang thedeep blue waters, the great sprawling live oaks,the never-ending riot of roses, and all the odor-ous and beautiful California flowers, are only afew of many things that charm the fortunate 164
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i% < K 2 H , o — M OTHER WONDERS sojourner—doubly fortunate if he be domiciledat the Del Monte, which that experienced trav-eler, Dr. Muirhead, author of Baedekers Guidesfor Great Britain and the United States, declaresthe best hotel on the American continent. Bythe best, he no doubt meant the most com-fortable and satisfactory, as well as the most de-lightfully situated, for it seems to me thatthese words best describe the service and sur-roundings of the Del Monte. Its gardens are amarvel even in California, the land of flowers—a continual feast of color, solid acres of roses,violets, calla lilies, heliotrope, narcissus, tulipsand crocuses, and one part, known as Arizona,contains a wonderful collection of cacti. Thegrounds of the Del Monte reminded Dr. Muir-head of some of the splendid parks of the Eng-lish gentry, save that even England is no matchfor California in flowers. I refer to the DelMonte at this length since it is to some extenttypical of many of the excellent ho

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