The Book of the National Parks
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Preface
4:09 -
On the Appreciation of Scenery
22:41 -
The National Parks of the United States
23:00 -
The Granite National Parks - Granite's Part in Scenery
4:27 -
Yosemite, the Incomparable
24:17 -
Yosemite, the Incomparable, continued
25:39 -
The Proposed Roosevelt National Park
36:18 -
The Heart of the Rockies
37:33 -
McKinley, Giant of Giants
20:54 -
Lafayette and the East
14:52 -
The Volcanic National Parks - On the Volcano in Scenery
4:56 -
Lassen Peak and Mount Katmai
16:37 -
Mount Rainier, Icy Octopus
18:45 -
Mount Rainier, Icy Octopus, continued
19:13 -
Crater Lake's Bowl of Indigo
25:36 -
Yellowstone, A Volcanic Interlude
23:11 -
Yellowstone, A Volcanic Interlude, continued
18:17 -
Three Monsters of Hawaii
22:54 -
The Sedimentary National Parks - On Sedimentary Rocks in Scenery
4:51 -
Glaciered Peaks and Painted Shales
25:42 -
Glaciered Peaks and Painted Shales, continued
25:58 -
Rock Records of a Vanished Race
31:51 -
The Healing Waters
17:47 -
The Grand Canyon and Our National Monuments - On the Scenery of the Southwest
9:58 -
A Pageant of Creation
19:04 -
A Pageant of Creation, continued
17:28 -
The Rainbow of the Desert
21:44 -
Historic Monuments of the Southwest
25:41 -
Desert Spectacles
27:52 -
The Muir Woods and Other National Monuments
24:00
The Book of the National Parks (1919) is a public domain work.
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About this book
Written in 1919 by the chief of the National Park Service's educational division, this guide sets out to describe every American national park and to explain how each landscape was made. Robert Sterling Yard groups the parks by the rock that shaped them: granite parks such as Yosemite and the Rockies, volcanic parks from Mount Rainier and Crater Lake to Yellowstone and Hawaii, sedimentary parks like Glacier and Mesa Verde, and finally the Grand Canyon and the monuments of the Southwest.
Between the park chapters sit short notes on how granite, volcanoes and layered rock produce scenery, which Yard urges the curious reader not to skip. The chapters themselves mix geology with practical travel. In Yellowstone he describes geysers, lakes and trout streams, the three railroads that reached the park, and the new motor stages that turned a hurried six-day tour into a leisurely summer stay.
It works both as a readable lesson in landscape and as a picture of the park system in 1919, when at least one entry, the proposed Roosevelt National Park, was still only a plan.
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- Robert Sterling Yard
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- American History
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