Glimpses of our national parks . amplain; it was in 1G04. The first European settlement inAmerica north of the Gulf of Mexico was here. The mountainsbear names which memorialize its French and English occupationsand its many associations with the romance of the continents earlydays. XVTHE HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION Special Characteristic: Curative Hot Springs Possessing Radio-Active Properties A S different, almost, as possible from the great scenic national-t^ parks which we have been considering, but in its own particu-lar way as extraordinary as any of them, the Hot Springs Reserva-tion in the
Glimpses of our national parks . amplain; it was in 1G04. The first European settlement inAmerica north of the Gulf of Mexico was here. The mountainsbear names which memorialize its French and English occupationsand its many associations with the romance of the continents earlydays. XVTHE HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION Special Characteristic: Curative Hot Springs Possessing Radio-Active Properties A S different, almost, as possible from the great scenic national-t^ parks which we have been considering, but in its own particu-lar way as extraordinary as any of them, the Hot Springs Reserva-tion in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas must be accorded a distin-guished i^lace among American resorts of national character andownership. The reservation is the oldest national park, having re-ceived that status in 1832, 40 years before the wonders of the Yel-lowstone first inspired Congi^ess with the idea that scenery was anational asset deserving of preservation for the use and enjoymentof succeeding generations. 64 OUR NATIONAL Hot Spiungs Reservation, Showing Bath House Row and the Army andNa\t General Hospital No esthetic consideration was involved in this early act of nationalconservation. Congress was inspired only by the undoubted, but atthat time inexplicable, power of these waters to alleviate certainbodily ills. The motive was to retain these unique waters in publicpossession in order that they should be available to all persons forall time at a minimum, even a nominal, cost. The low, irregular mountain masses known as the Ozarks coverthe greater part of southern Missouri and overlap northern Arkansas,where, in marked contrast with the surrounding plains, they becomehigher, more rugged, and heavily timbered. The country is one of much beauty. Hot Springs Mountain, fromwhose sides flow the cleansing waters, is about 50 miles west bysouth from Little Rock. Here, as early as 1804, began the settlementwhich has developed into the handsome prosperous city of 16,000inhabita
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