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for those who wish to make this trip to do so. 
The extra cost will be $5. 
August 3: Arrive Kansas City in the evening. 
August 4: Kansas City. Inspect the notable 
pflrk system, leaving in the evening for Chicago. 
August 5: Chicago. Arrive in the morning. 
' PRICES. 
Chicago, morning of June 22, to Chicago, 
August 5 $5.30.00 
Chicago, evening of June 2-3, rail and Pull- 
man only (no food), to Omaha, join party 
at Omaha, June 24 (4:30 p. m.), thence - 
to Chicago, August 5 509.00 
Minneapolis, evening of June 2.3, to Minne- 
apolis, August 5 520.00 
Omaha, afternoon of June 24, to Omaha, 
August 5 495.00 
Denver, evening of June 25, through Grand 
Canyon, thence direct to Denver, August 3 475.00 
The price includes every calculable e.xpense, ex- 
cept such items as laundry, extras ordered at 
table, etc. All expenses in connection with pro- 
grams are included as outlined in the itinerary, 
.as are all liotel bills and fees, and transportation 
of passenger and baggage between station and 
hotel. The baggage allowance is 150 pounds. 
In co-operation with the School of Amer- 
ican Archjeolog>', an extension tour is also 
offered to Santa Fe and the sections ad- 
jacent, including a camping trip with head- 
quarters in the Rito de los Frijoles. This 
is a beautiful canyon, whose perpendicular 
walls, 500 feet high, are filled with in- 
numerable cliff-dwellings of a vanished 
race. Great pueblos are near by, and other 
antiquities that rival in interest, if not in 
character, any that Europe has to show. 
This is exactly the most favorable season 
for the visit. The high altitudes and 
cloudless skies combine to give a cool, de- 
lightful climate and ideal camping condi- 
tions. 
Those who take this tour will have an 
extra day in Los .Angeles and San Diego, 
a day at Adamana, whence they will visit 
the Petrified Forest, and reach Santa Fe 
the afternoon of August 5. The additional 
cost will be $110 and the tour ends the 
evening of August 20 in Chicago. 
GLIMPSES OF OUR NATIONAL PARKS 
I. Glacier National Park. 
ST. MARY CH.A.L'ET ON ST. MARY LAKE. IN GLACIER NA- 
TIONAL PARK. 
ST. MARY PRO.IECT, LAKE McDERMOTT AND GRIN NELL 
MOUNTAIN, GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. 
The national parks are areas w’hich Con- 
gress has set apart because of extraordinary 
scenic beauty, remarkable phenomena or 
other unusual qualifications, for the use and 
enjoyment of the people for all time. 
There are fourteen national parks, with 
a total area of 7^90 square miles, or 4,665,- 
966 acres. Eight are of the first order of 
size and scenic magnificence. Every per- 
son living in the United States ought to 
know much about these eight national 
parks and ought to visit them when possi- 
ble, for, considered together, they contain 
more features of conspicuous grandeur 
than are readily accessible in all the rest 
of the world together; while, considered 
individually, there are few, if any, cele- 
brated scenic places within easy reach 
abroad which are not equaled or excelled 
in .America. Even the far-famed Swiss 
.Mps are equaled, and, some travelers be- 
lieve. excelled by the scenery of several of 
our own national parks. 
There are more geysers of large size in 
our Yellowstone National Park, for in- 
stance, than in all the rest of the world to- 
gether, the nearest approach being the gey- 
ser fields of Iceland and far New Zealand. 
-Again, it is conceded the world over that 
there is no valley in existence so strikingly 
beautiful as our Yosemite Valley, and no- 
w'here else can be found a canyon of such 
size and exquisite coloring as our Grand 
Canyon of the Colorado. In the Sequoia 
National Park grow trees so huge and old 
that none quite compare with them. These 
are well-known facts with which every 
American ought to be familiar. 
The eight national parks of the first or- 
der are the Alount Rainier National Park 
in Washington, the Crater Lake National 
Park in Oregon, the Yosemite and Seipioia 
National Parks in California, the Glacier 
National Park in Montana, the Yellowstone 
National Park, principally in Wyoming, 
and the Rocky Mountain and Mesa Verde 
National Parks in Colorado. With these 
must be classed the Grand Canyon of the 
Colorado in Arizona, which, though still 
remaining a national monument, is one of 
the great wonders of the world. 
The principal difference between a na- 
tional monument and a national park is 
that the former has merely been made safe 
from encroachment by private interests 
and enterprise, while the latter is also in 
process of development by roads and trails 
and hotels, so as to become a convenient 
resort for the people to visit and enjoy. 
One of the striking and interesting fea- 
tures of the eight greater national parks of 
our country is that each one of them is 
quite different from all the others; each 
has a marked personality of its own. 
Following is a list of the parks in the 
order of their establishment, giving the 
salient facts about each : 
Hot Springs. Middle Arkansas; established 1832. 
Area, lU square inilos. 40 hot springs, possess- 
ing curative properties. Many hotels and board- 
ing hoii.^es. 
Yellowstone. Northwestern Wyoming: established 
1872. Aren, 3,348 square miles. More geysers 
than in all the rest of the world together; boiling 
springs; mud volcanoes; petritled forests; (;ran<l 
rnnyitn of the Yellowstone, remarkable for gorge- 
ous coloring; large lakes; many large streams and 
waterfalls; vast wilderness, Inhabited by deer, elk, 
bfson. niofjse, antelope, Inuir, mountain sheep, 
beaver, etc., constituting the greatest wild bird 
and animal preserve in the worhl; altitude 0.000 
to 11.000 feet; exeepthmnl trout fishing. 
Yosemite. Middle eastern Californln; established 
1890. Area, 1,125 square miles. Valley of world- 
famed b<‘nnt.v; lofty cllfTs; romantic vistas; many 
waterfalls of extraordinary height; three groves of 
hig trees; high Sierra; large areas tif snowy peaks; 
Waterwheel Falls; good trout fishing. 
Sequoia. Middle eastern California; established 
18fK>. .Vren, 237 •square miles. 'I’lie Illg Tree na- 
tional park; 12.0(Ki s<>qnoin trees over 10 feet in 
dlamefiT. scuiie 25 tf* of} feet In <Ilanieter; towering 
moiintnln ranges; startling preelplces; tine trout 
fishing. 
(Wmernl Grant. Mldrlle eastern California; estab- 
lished IS90. Area. I square mlhs. Created to 
preserve the eelebraled General Grant 'I’ree. 35 
feet in rllameter; 0 rnileH from Serpiola National 
Fark. and nmler same tiiniingernent. 
