Romance of the National Parks (Table of Contents)

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

Romance of the National Parks

TABLE OF CONTENTS

BOOK I—HISTORY

"There ought to be no private ownership in any portion of that region (the Yellowstone), but the whole of it ought to be set aside as a great National Park." CORNELIUS HEDGES, quoted in Langford's Diary of the Washburn-Doane-Langford Expedition, September 20, 1870.

TEN-EI-YA AND YOSEMITE

"I will not leave my home, but be with the spirits among the rocks, the water-falls, in the rivers and in the winds; wheresoever you go I will be with you. You will not see me, but you will fear the spirit of the old chief, and grow cold. The great spirits have spoken!" Quoted from Chief Ten-ei-ya by DR. L. H. BUNNELL, in "Discovery of the Yosemite," 1880.

JOHN MUIR AND THE SIERRA NEVADA

"Well may the Sierra be called the Range of Light, not the Snowy Range; for only in winter is it white, while all the year it is bright." JOHN MUIR, in "Our National Parks," 1901.

DR. MCFARLAND AND THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM

"Nowhere in official Washington can an inquirer find an office of the National Parks, or a desk devoted solely to their management." DR. J. HORACE MCFARLAND, Annual Convention, American Civic Association, Washington, December, 1911.

STEPHEN T. MATHER AND HIS ASSOCIATES

"Dear Steve: If you don't like the way the parks are being run, come down and run them yourself." FRANKLIN K. LANE to Stephen T. Mather in 1914, quoted in address of Horace M. Albright before the American Civic Association, printed in American Civic Annual, 1929.

BOOK II—JOURNEYS

PROSPECT—PHILOSOPHY OF PARKS AND PEOPLE

MAGNIFICENT MOUNTAINS OF THE NORTHWEST

Olympic National Park, Mt. Rainier, Crater Lake, The Wilderness Way in the Cascades.

THE PIONEER WESTERN PARKS

California—Lassen, Yosemite, Sequoia and General Grant, Monuments; The Magic Rockies—Glacier, Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, Rocky Mountain National Parks; Over the Seas—Mt. McKinley, Hawaii.

THE OLD SOUTHWEST

Grand Canyon, Zion and Bryce, Big Bend, Carlsbad Caverns, Mesa Verde, Southwestern National Monuments.

EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI

The Mysterious Appalachians—The Appalachian Trail, Shenandoah, Great Smoky Mountains; Where Land and Water Meet— Acadia, Isle Royale, Hatteras, Everglades; National Historical Parks and Monuments.

RETROSPECT

INDEX (omitted from the online edition)

ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park

2a, 2b, 2c, 2d. Yellowstone National Park—Geyser—Old Faithful

3a, 3b. Yosemite Valley

4a, 4b, 4c, 4d. Yosemite National Park—Echo Ridge—Sawtooth—Cathedral Fall

5a, 5b, 5c. Sierra—Minarets—Ritter Range

6. Yosemite National Park—Sugar Pines

7a, 7b, 7c, 7d, 7e, 7f, 7g. John Muir Trail—Sierra Crest—Muir Shelter—Mt. Clarence King— Little Pete Meadow—Evolution Creek—Upper Palisade Falls—Devils Crags

8a, 8b, 8c, 8d, 8e. Kings River Canyon

9a, 9b, 9c, 9d, 9e, 9f. Olympic Mountains—Hoh Valley—Seven Lakes Basin—Glacier Lilies—Mt. Seattle and Mt. Olympus

10a, 10b, 10c, 10d, 10e, 10f. Mt. Rainier—Winter Sports—Approach Road—Avalanche Lilies—Paradise Valley

11. Crater Lake

12a, 12b, 12c, 12d, 12e, 12f. Cascades—Mt. Baker—Mt. Magic—Mt. Shuksan—Mt. Adams

13a, 13b, 13c. Lassen Volcanic National Park

14a, 14b. Yosemite Valley—Ahwahnee Hotel—Winter Sports

15a, 15b, 15c, 15d. Sequoia National Park—Mt. Whitney—Sequoia Gigantea

16a, 16b. Death Valley—Furnace Creek Inn—Sands

17a, 17b, 17c, 17d, 17e, 17f, 17g, 17h. Glacier National Park—Railroad Station—Boulder Pass—Hotel and Chalet—Kinnerly Peak—Grinnell and Bowman Lakes—Mountain Goats

18a, 18b. Yellowstone National Park—Fishing Bridge Museum—Yellowstone Falls

19a, 19b, 19c. Grand Tetons—Jackson Hole

20a, 20b. Rocky Mountain National Park—Dream Lake—Bighorns

21. Pack-train Trip

22. Mt. McKinley

23. Hawaii National Park—Kilauea Eruption

24a, 24b, 24c, 24d. Grand Canyon—El Tovar—Bright Angel Lodge—North Rim

25. Zion National Park—Great White Throne

26. Bryce Canyon National Park

27a, 27b. Escalante National Monument, Proposed

28a, 28b. Big Bend National Park, Authorized

29. Carlsbad Caverns National Park

30. White Sands National Monument

31. Chaco Canyon—Pueblo Bonito

32a, 32b. Mesa Verde National Park—Cliff Palace

33. Navajo National Monument—Betatakin Ruin

34. Petrified Forest National Monument

35a, 35b. Canyon de Chelly National Monument

36. Montezuma Castle National Monument

37. Monument Valley

38a, 38b. Mt. Katahdin, Maine

39. Shenandoah National Park

40a, 40b, 40c, 40d, 40e. Great Smoky Mountains—Roaring Fork Falls—Rhododendrons—Hardwoods

41a, 41b. Acadia National Park

42. Isle Royale National Park, Authorized

43a, 43b. Cape Hatteras National Seashore

44a, 44b. Everglades National Park, Authorized

45a, 45b, 45c, 45d. Colonial Virginia—Wakefield—Yorktown—Jamestown

46a, 46b. Morristown National Historical Park

47. Statue of Liberty

48. Map of National Park Areas and Projects

49. Hikers in National Parks

50. Stephen T. Mather in the Field

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in magazine or newspaper.

SECOND PRINTING

To
J. HORACE McFARLAND

WHO, AS PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION, ACTIVELY PROMOTED PUBLIC EDUCATION IN NATIONAL PARK POSSIBILITIES, AND FIRST PROPOSED A NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM

WHO FOR THIRTY YEARS HAS JOINED IN DEFENDING THE NATIONAL PARKS AGAINST SELFISH AGGRESSION

AND

WHO HAS NEVER BEEN FOUND WANTING WHEN THE NATIONAL PARKS NEEDED A FRIEND

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