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Title: Glimpses of our national parks
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Yard, Robert Sterling, 1861-1945 United States. Department of the Interior
Subjects: National parks and reserves
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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adhills and pours downward to be lost again in green. From that point two or three miles to where you stand and be-neath you widens out the most glorious kaleidoscope of color youAvill even see in nature. The steep slopes dropping on either sidea thousand feet and more from the pine-topped levels above areinconceivably carved and fretted by the frost and the erosion of theages. Sometimes they lie in straight lines at easy angles, from whichjut high rocky prominences. Sometimes they lie in huge hollowsearved from the side walls. Here and there jagged rocky needlesrise perpendicularly 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 are OUR NATIONAL PARKS. 13
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Copyright by J. E. Ilaynes, St. Paul The Gorgeously Colored Canyon, Yellowstone National ParkShowing the Great Falls of the Yellowstone, 308 feet high furnished by the dark pines above, the lighter shades of growthcaught here and there in soft masses on the gentler slopes and thefoaming green of the plunging river so far below. The blues, everchanging, are found in the dome of the sky overhead. It is a spectacle which one looks upon in silence. There are several spots from which fine partial views may be had,but no person can say he has seen the canyon who has not stood uponInspiration Point. Remember this when you visit the Yellowstone. WILD ANIMALS LIVING NATURALLY Another interesting feature of the Yellowstone National Park is itswild-animal life. It is the largest and most successful preserve in the 14 OUR NATIONAL PARKS. world. Its 3,300 square miles of mountains and valleys remain nearlyas nature made them, for the two hundred miles of roads and thefive hotels and many camps are

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