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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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From a photograph copyright by Gifford YELLOWSTONE VALLEY FROM THE UPPER FALL TO THE LOWER FALL
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From a photograph copyright by Gijford THE LOWER FALL AND THE GRAND CANYON OF THE YELLOWSTONE YELLOWSTONE 221 It will help comprehension of the picture qualityof this remarkable canyon to recall that it is carvedout of the products of volcanism; its promontories andpinnacles are the knobbed and gnarled decompositionproducts of lava rocks left following erosion; its sidesare gashed and fluted lava cliffs flanked by long straightslopes of coarse volcanic sand-like grains; its colors havethe distinctness and occasional luridness which seemnatural to fused and oxidized disintegrations. Geo-logically speaking, it is a young canyon. It is dig-ging deeper all the time. Yellow, of course, is the prevailing color. Moranwas right. His was the general point of view, his mes-sage the dramatic ensemble. But, even from ArtistsPoint, closer looking reveals great masses of reds andgrays, while Inspiration Point discloses a gorgeouspalette daubed with most of the colors and interme-diate tints that im

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