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Glacier and Mount Rainier National Parks and 

 of Alaska; in medicinal springs, there is an 

 array of flowing, life-extending, fountains ; in 

 wild flowers, the mountain wild flowers in the 

 West are lovely with the loveliest anywhere; 

 in wild animals of interest and influence, we 

 have the grizzly bear, the beaver, and the moun- 

 tain sheep; in bird music, that which is sung by 

 the thrushes, the canon wren, and the solitaire 

 silences with melodious sweetness the other best 

 bird-songs of the earth. In these varied attrac- 

 tions of our many natural parks we have ample 

 playgrounds for all the world and the oppor- 

 tunity for a travel industry many times as pro- 

 ductive as our gold and silver mines — and 

 more lasting, too, than they. When these scenes 

 are ready for the traveler we shall not need to 

 nag Americans to see America first; and Euro- 

 peans, too, might start a continuous procession 

 to these wonderlands. 



In the nature of things, the United States 

 should have a travel industry of vast economic 

 importance. The people of the United States 

 are great travelers, and we have numerous and 



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