ILLUSTRATIONS 



In the Bitterroots of Montana Frontispiece 



FACING PAGE 



The early colonists faced mountain ramparts 24 



Characteristic grazing land in public domain 25 



Pioneering in the nation's westward movement 44 



Of such stuff was made America 45 



The Oklahoma prairie on August 5, 1901, and twenty-four 



days later 56 



Home-making on the prairies in 1894 57 



Famous Cripple Creek gold fields, Colorado 68 



The Great American Desert 69 



Adirondack white pine seeding neighboring meadow . . 90 



White pine plantings in Virginia National Forest .... 91 



Grazing in Idaho National Forest 118 



Counting sheep entering National Forest 118 



Winter logging, Pine Island, Minnesota 119 



A National Forest in North Carolina 126 



National Forest in the high Rockies 127 



Foresters marking timber for cutting 132 



Fall of a giant yellow pine 133 



At the top of the world 146 



Big falls of the Snake River, Idaho 147 



Famous Elephant Butte Dam, New Mexico 160 



Profitable orchards where once was desert 160 



Strawberries and cottonwoods grow on Nevada deserts . 161 



East Park Dam, Orland Reclamation Project 1 74 



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