National Parks
Portfolio

Cover

Contents

Foreword

Parks vs Monuments

Acadia

Bryce Canyon

Carlsbad Caverns

Crater Lake

General Grant

Glacier

Grand Canyon

Grand Teton

Hawaii

Hot Springs

Lassen Volcanic

Mesa Verde

Mount McKinley

Mount Rainier

Platt

Rocky Mountain

Seqoia

Wind Cave

Yellowstone

Yosemite

Zion

Monuments

National Parks Portfolio

Yosemite

A CLOSE VIEW OF THE BIG WATERWHEEL, TUOLUMNE CANYON
Photograph by A.C. Pillsbury

THE WATERWHEEL BELOW CALIFORNIA FALLS
Photograph by W.L. Huber

MAD WATERS OF TUOLUMNE

AN EXCELLENT trail leads from the Tioga Road down the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne, famous for its leaping waters. Here the river, slanting sharply, becomes, in John Muir's phrase, ?one wild, exulting, onrushing mass of snowy purple bloom spreading over glacial waves of granite without any definite channel, gliding in magnificent silver plumes, dashing and foaming through huge bowlder dams, leaping high in the air in wheellike whirls, displaying glorious enthusiasm, tossing from side to side, doubling, glinting, singing in exuberance of mountain energy."

A PAIR OF TUOLUMNE WATERWHEELS
Photograph by A.C. Pillsbury

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