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GRAND CANYON, FROM ARTISTS’ POINT, Y'ELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. 
them and pick his way around among the 
steaming pools. In certain lights the sur- 
face of these pools appears vividly colored. 
The deeper hot pools are often intensely 
green. The incrustations are often beau- 
tifully crystallized. Clumps of grass, and 
even flowers, which have been submerged 
in the charged waters become exquisitely 
plated, as if with frosted silver. 
But the geysers and hot-water forma- 
tions are by no means the only wonders in 
the Yellowstone. Indeed the entire park is 
a wonderland. The Grand Canyon of the 
Yellowstone affords a spectacle worthy of 
a national park were there no geysers. But 
you must not confuse your Grand Can- 
yons, of which there are several in our 
wonderful western country. Of these, by 
far the largest and most impressive is the 
Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, in 
Arizona. That is the one always meant 
when people speak of visiting “the Grand 
Canyon,” without designating a location. 
It is the giant of canyons. 
The Grand Canyon of the Y’ellowstone is 
altogether different. Great though its size, 
it is much the smaller of the two. What 
makes it a scenic feature of the first order 
is its marvelously variegated coloring. It 
is the cameo of canyons. 
Standing upon Inspiration Point, which 
pushes out almost to the center of the 
canyon, one seems to look almost vertically 
down upon the foaming Yellowstone river. 
To the south a waterfall twice the height of 
Niagara rushes seemingly out of the pine- 
clad hills and pours downward to be lost 
again in green. 
From that point two or three miles to 
where you stand and beneath you widens 
out the most glorious kaleidoscope of 
color you will ever see in nature. The 
steep slopes dropping on either side a 
thousand feet and more from the pine- 
topped levels above are inconceivably 
carved and fretted by the frost and the 
ferosion of the ages. Sometimes they lie 
in straight lines at easy angles, from which 
jut high rocky prominences. Sometimes 
they lie in huge hollows carved from the 
side walls. Here and there jagged rocky 
needles rise perpendicularly for hundreds 
of feet like groups of gothic spires. 
.And the whole is colored as brokenly 
and vividly as the field of a kaleidoscope. 
The whole is streaked and spotted and 
stratified in every shape from the deep- 
est orange to the faintest lemon, from deep 
crimson through all the brick shades to 
the softest pink, from black through all the 
grays and pearls to glistening white. The 
greens are furnished by the dark pines 
above, the lighter shades of growth caught 
here and there in soft masses on the gent- 
ler slopes and the foaming green of the 
plunging river so far below. The blues, 
ever changing, are found in the dome of 
the sky overhead. 
It is a spectacle which one looks upon in 
silence. 
There are several spots from which fine 
partial views may be had, but no person 
can say he has seen the canyon who has 
not stood upon Inspiration Point. Remem- 
ber this when you visit the Yellowstone. 
Another interesting feature of the Yel- 
lowstone National Park is its wild animal 
life. It is the largest and most successful 
preserve in the world. Its 3,300 square 
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miles of mountains and valleys remain 
nearly as nature made them, for the two 
hundred miles of roads and the seven 
hotels and many camps are as nothing in 
this immense wilderness. No tree has 
been cut except when absolutely necessary 
for road or trail or camp. No herds in- 
vade its valleys. No rifle has been fired 
except by an occasional poacher along the 
border since the park was established in 
1872. 
Visitors for the most part keep to the 
beaten road, and the wild animals have 
learned in the years that they mean them 
no harm. To be sure, they are seldom seen 
by the people filling the long trains of 
stages which travel from point to point 
daily during the season ; but the quiet 
watcher on the trails may see deer and 
bear and elk and antelope to Iiis heart’s 
content, and he may even sec mountain 
sheep, moose, and bison by journeyin.g on 
foot or by liorseback into their distant re- 
treats. In the fall and spring when the 
crowds are absent, wild deer gather in 
great numbers at the hotel clearin.gs to 
crop the grass, and the officers' children 
feed them flowers. One of the diversions 
at the road builders’ camp in the wilder- 
ness is cultivating the acciuaintance of the 
animals. I'hcre are jiliotographs in the 
War Department at Washington of men 
feeding sugar to bear cnlis while mother 
bear looks idly on at a distance. 
'I'hus one of the most interestin.g lessons 
from the Yellowstone is that wild animals 
arc fearful and dan.gerous only when men 
treat them as game or as enemies. 
Fven the big grizzlies, which are gener- 
ally believed to be ferocious, are proved by 
