Photo by W. S. Berry 
MOUNTAIN SHEEP IN YEEEOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK 
I was watching both performance3 gomg 
on below me — upside down you under- 
stand — and the colors were real. The 
canyon was burning like Troy town ; but 
it would burn forever, and, thank good- 
ness, neither pen nor brush could ever 
portray its splendors adequately," 
The tourist can see tne great wonders 
of the Yellowstone in five and a half 
days. Twice that time is none too little 
for an adequate appreciation of the beau- 
ties of this wonderful region, because off 
the regular route are many charming 
bits of scenery that would be considered 
remarkable in a region not possessing so 
many other wonderful sights. 
THE GEACIER NATIONAL PARK 
Two hundred and sixty miles north- 
west of Yellowstone Park as the crow 
flies and 447 miles by the railroad is the 
newest of the nation's pleasure grounds, 
the Glacier National Park, created by the 
act of May 11, 1910. This park, which 
has an area of 915,000 acres, derives 
its name from the many glaciers which 
glisten in dazzling white far up on the 
steep slopes of the mountain. A fine 
road has been built from Belton, on the 
Great Northern Railway, to the foot of 
Lake McDonald, a distance of two miles. 
Beyond Lake McDonald the unbroken 
wilderness stretches to the Canadian bor- 
der and beyond. 
The trail winds through the solemn 
forests, redolent of pine and fir, along 
the shores of the clearest of lakes, by 
rollicking cascades and along the edge of 
precipices. Here are peaks whose sides 
have never been scaled and lakes whose 
shores have never been trod by human 
foot. From the summit of the conti- 
nental divide one may see the lakes far 
below encompassed by precipice and 
forest, but no trail leads through the 
tangled woods, where the dense growth 
and the windfalls of countless storms 
conspire to keep the traveler from his 
goal. 
In the entire area of this park there 
are at present only 199 miles of trail, but 
these enable the traveler to see some of 
the grandest of mountain scenery and get 
at least a glimpse of some of the 81 gla- 
ciers and 132 lakes that are shown on the 
government map. 
From Lake McDonald one may make 
a number of trips, on horseback or on 
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