NATIONAL PARKS PORTFOLIO

THE GRAND CANYON OF THE COLORADO RIVER IN ARIZONA

BY SUNSET AND MOONRISE

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WHEN the light falls into it, harsh, direct, and searching," writes Hamlin Garland, "it is great, but not beautiful. The lines are chaotic, disturbing—but wait! The clouds and the sunset, the moonrise and the storm, will transform it into a splendor no mountain range can surpass. Peaks will shift and glow, walls darken, crags take fire, and gray-green mesas, dimly seen, take on the gleam of opalescent lakes of mountain water."



THE RIM ROAD AFFORDS MANY GLORIOUS VIEWS
Photograph by Henry Fuermann

HERMIT'S REST, NEAR THE HEAD OF THE HERMIT TRAIL TO THE RIVER
Copyright by Fred Harvey

"IS ANY FIFTY MILES OF MOTHER EARTH AS FEARFUL, OR ANY PART AS FEARFUL, AS FULL OF GLORY, AS FULL OF GOD?"—JOAQUIN MILLER
Photograph by H. T. Cowling


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