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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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rongs are rapidlydiscovering. It is above all a place for rest and recuperation. More and morewinter visitors are remaining through April and May, when the spring is youngand glorious and the baths the most efficacious. But those who remain afterMarch should bring summer clothing, as the temperature then ranges from 65to 85 degrees. The reservation includes three mountains and a lake, and the tract inclosesall the forty-six hot springs. Eleven bathhouses, some of them as completeand luxurious in equipment as any in the world, are in the reservation, and adozen more in the city, all under Government regulation. There are also coldsprings possessing curative properties. There are many hotels, the largest having accommodations for a thousandguests, and several hundred boarding houses, many at very modest prices.Cottages and apartments may be rented for light housekeeping. Hot Springs Mountain, from whose sides flow the cleansing waters, is aboutfifty miles west by south from Little Rock.
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The Golf Club at Hot Springs ITS PICTURESQUE HISTORY HE recorded history of Hot vSprings goes back to 1804, when four log T houses accommodated the people who traveled many weary milesof trail to bathe in the waters. The lands adjacent to the springswere claimed by conflicting interests which, as the waters grew infame, waged legal battles for many years for possession. Then follow^ed ageneration of lax law when Hot Springs became the winter gathering placeof gamblers. This was the most picturesque period in its history. In recent years, with the awakening of the public conscience, the upliftingof the public taste, and the enactment of laws prohibiting gambling, HotSprings has made rapid strides toward its manifest and enviable destiny.

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