Three wonderlands of the American West; being the notes of a traveler, concerning the Yellowstone park, the Yosemite national park, and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, with a chapter on other wonders of the great American West . t we werenot so wise, and mayhap must return again toGlacier Point. 77 Ill TO THE MARIPOSA GROVE Our driver cracks his whip over his fourlusty mountaineers and cries, All aboard!The fussy old lady manages to delay the startfor a quarter of an hour—meditating under atree is her excuse—and the driver, a somewhattaciturn fellow at best, starts off in a rather illh
Three wonderlands of the American West; being the notes of a traveler, concerning the Yellowstone park, the Yosemite national park, and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, with a chapter on other wonders of the great American West . t we werenot so wise, and mayhap must return again toGlacier Point. 77 Ill TO THE MARIPOSA GROVE Our driver cracks his whip over his fourlusty mountaineers and cries, All aboard!The fussy old lady manages to delay the startfor a quarter of an hour—meditating under atree is her excuse—and the driver, a somewhattaciturn fellow at best, starts off in a rather illhumor. We sit beside him on the high seat,but it is some time before he relaxes to tell ussomething of the legends and curiosities of thegreat Sierra forests through which he has beendriving for twenty-five years. It is indeed amarvelous drive, the twenty-six miles fromGlacier Point to Wawona, though in retrospectthe many wonders of the Yosemite and the bigtrees may leave a somewhat tame impression ofthis really delightful stretch of in America are there finer or morebeautiful individual pine trees—great arrow-straight shafts six to ten feet in diameter, risingto a height of two to three hundred feet. The 78. OVERHANGING ROCK, YOSEMITE VALLEYCourtesy Pillsbury Picture Co. . Jim. IK ?.<• ,.,;,v:;!.i!i^..!;,wpr THE YOSEMITE sugar pine, with its golden bark and coat ofsilver-gray needles, is perhaps the most beautiful,and takes its name from the sugary gum thatexudes from a cut or crack in its bark. Thefine yellow pines are also noticeable, rivaling thesugar pine in size and beauty. There are manyother varieties of conifers in the Yosemiteforests, of which the Sequoia is the largest andmost famous. However, one sees none of thelatter along the road to Wawona—these treesare never found isolated among other varieties,but invariably in groups. Nearly all the pines are heavily draped witha yellowish-green parasitic moss which, whilebeautiful
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