The National Parks Portfolio, Volume 1United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1931 - 274 páginas Presents descriptions of U.S. national parks and national monuments. Supplemented by several black and white photographs. |
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The National Parks Portfolio Robert Sterling Yard,United States. National Park Service Visualização integral - 1931 |
The National Parks Portfolio United States. National Park Service,Robert Sterling Yard Visualização integral - 1931 |
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beauty Big Trees camp cavern caves celebrated Cliff Palace Colorado colored Copyright by Fred Copyright by Hileman Copyright by J. E. Crater Lake Curtis & Miller FALLS feet high Fred H Fred Harvey GEYSER GIANT FOREST Glacier National Park gorges Grand Canyon granite Haleakala height HOT SPRINGS hundred feet Indians J. E. Haynes J. V. Lloyd Kiser Lassen Peak lava Lindley Eddy Llao Longs Peak Mesa Verde miles moraine Mount Mazama Mount Rainier mountain National Geographic Society NATIONAL MONUMENT NATIONAL PARK Photograph NATL Navajo Nisqually Glacier NORTH RIM numbers Oreg Photograph by Curtis Photograph by Fred Photograph by Lindley Photograph by Ranapar Photograph by U. S. Portland prehistoric Ranapar Studio region River rock rocky ruins scenic Sequoia Sherman Tree Shoshone slopes snow spectacle Spruce Tree House summit Swiftcurrent Lake TETON thousand feet Tioga Road towering TRAIL trout U. S. Reclamation Service visitor volcano walls wild Yellowstone
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Página 259 - The tower is a steep-sided shaft rising 600 feet above a rounded ridge of sedimentary rocks, about 600 feet high, on the west bank of the Belle Fourche River. Its nearly flat top is elliptical in outline, with a diameter varying from 60 to 100 feet. Its sides are strongly fluted by the great columns of igneous rock, and are nearly perpendicular, except near the top, where there is some rounding, and near the bottom, where there is considerable outward flare. The...
Página 87 - Many interesting things might be told of these glaciers were there space. For example, several species of minute insects live in the ice, hopping about like tiny fleas. They are harder to see than the so-called sand fleas at the sea shore because much smaller.
Página 130 - As their sense of beauty was keen, their art, though primitive, was true; rarely realistic, generally symbolic. Their decoration of cotton fabrics and ceramic work might be called beautiful, even when judged by the highly developed taste of to-day. They fashioned axes, spear points, and rude tools of stone; they wove sandals and made attractive basketry. They were not content with rude buildings, and had long outgrown caves or earth homes that satisfied less civilized Indians farther north and south...
Página 149 - The glacier ends when it reaches far enough down the mountain sides for the warmer weather to melt the ice into a river of water. But, with all its glaciers, the Glacier National Park is chiefly remarkable for its picturesquely modeled peaks, the unique quality of its rugged mountain masses, its gigantic precipices, and the romantic loveliness of its lakes. Though all the other National Parks have these general features in addition to others which differentiate each from the other, the Glacier National...
Página 51 - For miles the river is one wild, exulting, on-rushing mass of snowy purple bloom, spreading over glacial waves of granite without any definite channel, gliding in magnificent silver plumes, dashing and foaming through huge boulder-dams, leaping high into the air in wheel-like whirls, displaying glorious enthusiasm, tossing from side to side, doubling, glinting, singing in exuberance of mountain energy.
Página 268 - ... in the Yellowstone National Park. The trees probably at one time grew beside an inland sea; after falling they became waterlogged, and during decomposition the cell structure of the wood w,as entirely replaced by silica derived from sandstone in the surrounding land. Over a greater part of the entire area trees lie scattered in all conceivable positions and in fragments of all sizes.
Página 190 - Nowhere else are the timber-line struggles between the trees and the winds more grotesquely exemplified and more easily accessible to tourists of average climbing ability. The first sight of luxuriant Engelmann spruces creeping closely upon the ground instead of rising a hundred and fifty feet or more straight and true as masts arouses keenest interest. Many trees which defy the winter gales grow bent in half circles. Others starting straight in shelter of some large rock bend at right angles where...
Página 262 - The site is in a picturesque canyon, which has long been an attractive feature of that portion of the State. The formation is similar to that of the Garden of the Gods at Colorado Springs, Colo., only much more beautiful and picturesque. With the exception of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, it exhibits probably as highly colored, magnificent, and impressive examples of erosion, particularly of lofty monoliths, as may be found anywhere in the West. These monoliths are located in several tributary...
Página 31 - Valley lies in the heart of it, and it includes the headwaters of the Tuolumne and Merced Rivers, two of the most songful streams in the world; innumerable lakes and waterfalls and smooth silky lawns; the noblest forests, the loftiest granite domes, the deepest ice-sculptured canyons, the brightest crystalline pavements, and snowy mountains soaring into the sky twelve and thirteen thousand feet, arrayed in open ranks and spiry pinnacled groups partially separated by tremendous canyons and amphitheaters;...
Página 14 - The steep slopes are inconceivably carved by the frost and the erosion of the ages. Sometimes they lie in straight lines at easy angles, from which jut high rocky prominences. Sometimes they seem carved from the side walls. Here and there jagged rocky needles rise perpendicularly like groups of gothic spires. And the whole is colored as brokenly and vividly as the field of a kaleidoscope. The whole is streaked and spotted...