364

Casa Grande National Monument 374

Prehistoric cave homes in the Bandelier National Monument 374

Tumacacori Mission 376

Montezuma Castle 376

Roosevelt party in Monument Valley 386

Rainbow Bridge in full perspective 386

The Petrified Forest of Arizona 396

Petrified trunk forming a bridge over a canyon 396

Cathedral Isle of the Muir Woods 406

Pinnacles National Monument 412

The Devil's Tower 412

MAPS AND DIAGRAMS

PAGE

Cross-section of Crater Lake showing probable outline of
Mount Mazama 189

Cross-section of Crater Lake 191

Map of Hawaii National Park 230

FACING PAGE

Outline of the Mesa Verde Formation 290

Outlines of the Western and Eastern Temples, Zion National
Monument 356

AT END OF VOLUME

Map of Yosemite National Park, California.

Proposed Roosevelt National Park and the Sequoia and General
Grant National Parks, California.

The Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

Mount Rainier National Park, Washington.

Crater Lake National Park, Oregon.

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.

Glacier National Park, Montana.

Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.

Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.

Zion National Monument, Utah.

THE BOOK OF THE NATIONAL PARKS

The Book of the National Parks

ON THE APPRECIATION OF SCENERY

To the average educated American, scenery is a pleasing hodge-podge of
mountains, valleys, plains, lakes, and rivers. To him, the
glacier-hollowed valley of Yosemite, the stream-scooped abyss of the
Grand Canyon, the volcanic gulf of Crater Lake, the bristling granite
core of the Rockies, and the ancient ice-carved shales of Glacier
National Park all are one--just scenery, magnificent, incomparable,
meaningless. As a people w