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PREFACE vii

THE BOOK OF THE NATIONAL PARKS

ON THE APPRECIATION OF SCENERY 3

THE GRANITE NATIONAL PARKS

GRANITE'S PART IN SCENERY 33

THE VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARKS

ON THE VOLCANO IN SCENERY 145

THE SEDIMENTARY NATIONAL PARKS

THE GRAND CANYON AND OUR NATIONAL MONUMENTS

ON THE SCENERY OF THE SOUTHWEST 321

The Rainbow Natural Bridge, Utah 8

Middle fork of the Belly River, Glacier National Park 12

General Grant Tree 18

The Giant Geyser--greatest in the world 22

The Yosemite Falls--highest in the world 26

El Capitan, survivor of the glaciers 44

Half Dome, Yosemite's hooded monk 46

The climax of Yosemite National Park 56

The greatest waterwheel of the Tuolumne 56

Tehipite Dome, guardian rock of the Tehipite Valley 82

East Vidette from a forest of foxtail pines 84

Bull Frog Lake, proposed Roosevelt National Park 90

Under a giant sequoia 90

Estes Park Plateau, looking east 96

Front range of the Rockies from Bierstadt Lake 96

Summit of Longs Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park 110

The Andrews Glacier hangs from the Continental Divide 114

A Rocky Mountain cirque carved from solid granite 114

Mount McKinley, looming above the great Alaskan Range 128

Archdeacon Stuck's party half-way up the mountain 128

The summit of Mount McKinley 128

In Lafayette National Park 134

Sea caves in the granite 134

Frenchman's Bay from the east cliff of Champlain Mountain 140

Lassen Peak seen from the southwest 152

Lassen Peak close up 152

Southeast slope of Mount Rainier 162

Mount St. Helens seen from Mount Rainier Park 166

Mount Adams seen from Mount Rainier Park 166

Sluiskin Ridge and Columbia Crest 172

Mount Rainier seen from Tacoma 172

Mount Rainier and Paradise Inn in summer 174

Winter pleasures at Paradise Inn, Mount Rainier 174

Dutton Cliff and the Phantom Ship, Crater Lake 190

Sunset from Garfield Peak, Crater Lake National Park 190

Applegate Cliff, Crater Lake 194

Phantom Ship from Garfield Peak 194

The Excelsior Geyser which blew out in 1888; Yellowstone 216

One of the terraces at Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone 216

Yellowstone Valley from the upper fall to the lower fall 220

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