National Parks
The American Experience
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As advertising artist's conception of Bryce Canyon
from the May 1927 issue of National Geographic Magazine, above, contrasts
fancifully with a photograph of two actual formations, Thor's Hammer and the Temple
of Osiris, below. The advertisement also attempts to link Bryce Canyon with the
architecture of Europe and the Orient.
Union Pacific Railroad. Photograph by Wayne B. Alcorn, courtesy of the
National Park Service, Bryce Canyon National Park
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Glacier Park Lodge, opened by the Great Northern Railway
in 1913, at first was welcomed by preservationists who thought that the tourists it
attracted would support the national park idea. The great timbers in the lobby are
Douglas fir, with the bark on. It is the only national park hotel, except for
Mount McKinley Hotel in Alaska, that is directly accessible by long-line passenger
trains.
Hileman photograph, courtesy of the National Archivess
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The Great Northern Railway purchased the site of Glacier
Park Lodge from the Piegan Indians and retained a group of Indians to meet the trains.
The lodge, now owned by Glacier Park, Inc., is still outside the national park proper.
Hileman Photograph, courtesy of the National Archives
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Unlike the railroads, automobiles won admittance
to the parks themselves and, once inside, could go almost anywhere. Oliver
Lippincott, a Los Angeles, photographer, posed on Glacier Point, Yosemite,
with a horseless carriage, a flag, and a lady who may represent motherhood.
Courtesy of the National Park Service
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