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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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ds up a spout every minute withonly a few seconds for rest in between. You would not think that with all this boiling water there could be any lakes of cold water,but the Yellowstone Lake is as clear and cold and its fish as fine as any you could find in theworld. People claim that they have caught fish in the lake and then without moving a foot havecooked them in a pool of boiling water. We could believe this only we do not think the soldierswould let anyone fish there. Soldiers are stationed all around the park to keep tourists fromcarrying off souvenirs. Some tourists would run away with everything but the geysers if they hada chance. A geyser would be pretty hard to carry in ones suitcase. This great park has plains where bison run wild, great cliffs where the eagles rear their young,and forests where Mr. Grizzly makes himself quite at home. He even comes up to the hotels andcarries off garbage and though he seems quite tame, we boys did not feel like getting too familiarwith him.
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Glacier Park is way up at the northern edge of Montana. If it were a little farther north, itwould be a Canadian citizen instead of being subject to Uncle Sam. It was the favorite huntingground of the Blackfeet Indians but about 21 years ago copper was discovered there and UncleSam thought that the mines should be properly opened so he bought the land. There was notenough copper to make mining pay, but there was a stock of scenery so large that it would lastforever, so Uncle Sam gave the land to his big family for another playground and the BlackfeetIndians now live on a reservation east of the park. There is lots of big game among the mountains, and the Rocky Mountain sheep and mountaingoats seem able to climb up the steep sides of the rocks as easily as a fly goes up a wall. The park is named from its 60 glaciers, but is even more famous for its 250 lakes. Peopleused to think that they had to go to Switzerland to see the most beautiful lakes in the world, butbefore long the Swiss wi

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