The Golden Eagle 



Taken in Fresno County 



A VEILED THRONE 



TEHIPITE DOME SHOWS THE EAGLE A SHEER HALF MILE OF GRANITE 



Photo by the Author 



BECAUSE of the racial weakness for symbols and striking generaliza- 

 tions, we have been taught that the Golden Eagle is the embodiment of 

 all regal qualities, including courage, magnanimity, and valor in defense 

 of offspring. There is some foundation for all this. In his mountain home 

 the majestic flight of the Eagle truly befits the grandeur of the scene. 

 Cradled on a beetling cliff and schooled in the clouds, it is little wonder 

 that the Eagle should have become for us the symbol of both prowess and 

 aspiration. Even in captivity there is something awful about his piercing 

 eye, and the unrest of the royal captive appeals to all that is chivalrous in 

 our natures. 



But the reputation of the Eagle race, quite as in the case of our own, 

 has been made by a few individuals, and their feats are a revelation of the 

 possibilities inherent in the breed rather than chapters from common life. 

 Never shall I forget the pained disappointment over my first Eagle's nest 

 in a northern county. The situation was romantic enough — a ledge of rock 

 some three hundred and fifty feet up on the side of the gulch, and seventy- 

 five feet clear of the talus below. At the time of my first visit, May 18th, 

 the nest contained two eaglets about six weeks old. Armed with a stout 



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