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Identifier: nationalparkspor1917yard (find matches)
Title: The national parks portfolio
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Yard, Robert Sterling, 1861-1945 United States. National Park Service
Subjects: National parks and reserves
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Photograph by W. S. Valentine 54590°—HS—17 3 Lassen Peak in Eruption, July, 1914
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Cathedral Rocks, Mukuntuweap Na-4onal Monument, Southern Utah OTHER NATIONAL PARKS THE WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK nPHE Black Hills of southwestern South Dakota, scene of Custers first stand,-*■ famous for many years for Indian fights and frontier lawlessness, are chieflycelebrated in this generation for a limestone cave of large size and interestingdecoration. It is called Wind Cave because of the strong currents of air whichalternate in and out of its mouth. The walls and ceiling of the various passages and chambers which consti-tute the cave are elaborately covered with the formations common to mostcaves, which here result in tracery and carvings of the most elaborate and sur-prising description. The park is also a game preserve of unusual merit. THE PLATT NATIONAL PARK QOUTHERN Oklahomas famous curative springs were conserved for the^^ public benefit in 1906 by the creation of the Piatt National Park. Sulphursprings predominate, but there are bromide and other springs of medicinal v

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