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Identifier: bookofnationalpa1920yard (find matches)
Title: The book of the national parks
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Yard, Robert Sterling, 1861-1945
Subjects: National parks and reserves
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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tupendousstructures of gorgeous color, two of which are knownas the Mountain of the Sun and the Watchman. To-gether they are the Sentinels. Passing these across aplaza apparently broadened for their better presenta-tion rise on the west the Three Patriarchs, Yosemite-like in form, height, and bulk, but not in personalityor color. The brilliance of this wonder-spot passesdescription. Here the canyon contracts, and we come to thecomfortable hotel-camp, terminal of the automobilejourney. It is in a fine shady grove in an alcove ofthe east wall near a spring. Here horses may be hadfor exploration. A mile above the camp stands one of the mostremarkable monoliths of the region. El Gobernadoris a colossal truncated dome, red below and whiteabove. The white crown is heavily marked in twodirections, suggesting the web and woof of drapery.Directly opposite, a lesser monolith, nevertheless gi-gantic, is suggestively if sentimentally called AngePsLanding A natural bridge which is still in Natures
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From a photograph by Douglas White EL GOBERNADOR, ZION NATIONAL MONUMENT Three thousand feet high; the lower two thousand feet is a brilliant red, the upper thousand feet is white THE RAINBOW OF THE DESERT 363 workshop is one of the interesting spectacles of thisvicinity. Its splendid arch is fully formed, but thewall against which it rests its full length remains,broken through in one spot only. How many thou-sands or hundreds of thousands of years will be re-quired to wipe away the wall and leave the bridgecomplete is for those to guess who will. Here also is the valley end of a wire cable whichpasses upward twenty-five hundred feet to cross abreak in the wall to a forest on the mesas top. Lum-ber is Dixies most hardly furnished need. For yearssawn timbers have been cabled down into the valleyand carted to the villages of the Virgin River. In some respects the most fascinating part ofLittle Zion is still beyond. A mile above El Gober-nador the river swings sharply west and doubles o

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