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TABLE OF CONTENTS
COVER
FOREWORD
PREFACE
CHAPTER
I. HOW IT HAPPENED
It never would have happened if Margaret had not
persevered.
II. THE FIRST DITCH-DIGGERS
How the glaciers helped make the Rocky Mountain
National Park.
III. THE MYSTERY OF THE MESA
No one knows what became of the Cliff-Dwellers of the
green table.
IV. WILD ANIMALS OF GEYSERLAND
Elk, deer, antelope, bear, and bison live natural
lives in the Yellowstone.
V. THE EDUCATION OF ROCKY M. GOAT, JR.
No other schoolhouse in the world is more beautiful
than the Glacier National Park.
VI. THE FROZEN OCTOPUS
Mount Rainier thrusts icy tentacles down among
natural gardens of wild flowers.
VII. WHAT HAPPENED TO MOUNT MAZAMA
Where it once stood now lies Crater Lake, the deepest
and perhaps the bluest lake in the world.
VIII. THE INCOMPARABLE VALLEY
But there is much more than the valley in the
Yosemite National Park.
IX. A LONG LIFE AND A HAPPY ONE
Some of the trees in the Sequoia National Park were
growing there when Pharaoh made captive the children of Israel.
X. THE GREATEST DITCH IN THE WORLD
The Grand Canyon of the Colorado, in Arizona, is one
of the world's most wonderful spectacles.
ILLUSTRATIONS
Yosemite Fall
The greatest rock in
America—El Capitan—rising 3,600 feet above the Yosemite Valley
floor
Mother, where is the top
of the continent?" asked Margaret
"Oh, take us, take us to
the top of the continent, dear Uncle Billy!"
Margaret began to weep
silently, while Jack kicked the piano-chair
The General Sherman Tree,
Sequoia National Park. The biggest and the oldest living thing
Sundown at Grand
Lake
The Heart of the Rockies.
Longs Peak from Flattop Mountain Trail
Uncle Billy washed Aunt
Jane's face with a handful of snow
A full-grown brown
bear
Longs Peak (centre),
Mount Meeker (left), and Mount Lady Washington
The precipitous face of
Longs Peak from a rock shoulder 13,000 feet in altitude
Hallett Peak in July. A
typical Rocky Mountain Gorge
A large beaver family
has lived here for many generations
She glanced upward and
saw a strange face peering at her
The canyon seen from
Balcony House
Lookout Mountain,
highest point in Mesa Verde
Cliff Palace from across
the canyon
Sun Temple. Built on top
of the Mesa
One of the Yellowstone
bison herds
The Grand Canyon of the
Yellowstone and the Great Fall
Upper Fall of the
Yellowstone
The Old Faithful geyser
spouts every seventy minutes
Blacktail fawn
There are thirty
thousand elk in the Yellowstone
Many families camp all
summer
Yellowstone hot-water
formations beautifully colored by microscopic vegetable algae
Margaret screamed wildly
and ran as she had never run before
Mountain-sheep
Western end of St. Mary
Lake
Uncle Waggletoe
"In all Goatland, my
dear Rocky," said Uncle Waggletoe, "you will see nothing grander than
this spot"
Avalanche Lake under the
Sperry Glacier
Gunsight Lake east from
Gunsight Pass
Going-to-the-Sun
Mountain, St. Mary Lake
Former inhabitants of
Glacier National Park
Where Lake Ellen Wilson
empties into Little St. Mary
Summit of Blackfeet
Mountain
The road to Paradise
Valley
The celebrated Nisqually
Glacier
Measuring the speed of a
glacier
Looking down into a
crevasse
Exploring Nisqually's
crevasses
At the same time he
slipped and disappeared
On the Cowlitz
Glacier
Mount Rainier reflected
in Mirror Lake
The Lake of
Mystery
A pound trout is a small
one
The water is bluer than
the darkest indigo
"Just look for a moment
over there at the Phantom Ship," interrupted Mrs. Jefferson
The Phantom Ship
The painted lava rim and
Phantom Ship
Half Dome rises 5,000
feet above the Yosemite Valley
Mrs. Jefferson managed
to keep up the mystery for nearly a week
Cathedral Spires
(centre) and Cathedral Rocks (right)
Vernal Fall
Liberty Cap and Nevada
Fall
Many years ago the
Yosemite Valley was the safe retreat of the Indians
The Yosemite
Valley
Tenaya Lake, above the
valley's rim
It is a paradise of
squirrels
Sequoia-tree about 1,500
years old
General Sherman Tree,
from south side
Bear cubs are numerous
and friendly
A wonderful place to
camp out
Sunrise in the Giant
Forest
Sugar-pines in the Giant
Forest
Group of sequoias in the
Giant Forest
A fallen monster
Suddenly a loud, gleeful
shout brought the conference to a startled finish
The Grand Canyon of the
Colorado River
Sunrise over the
canyon
Indians above the
rim
The trail into the
canyon
On the brink of the
river's gorge
At the river's
edge
Thunder-storm brooding
over the canyon
Camping in the Grand
Canyon
"You little witch," she
whispered, "I believe you know"
TO
MARGARET
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