The national parks portfolio . Main Entrance to thk Hot Springs Rkskrvation SPRINGS OF HEALING ROM the slopes of a picturesque wooded hill among the wild and F romantic Ozark Mountains of Arkansas flow springs of hot waterwhose powers to alleviate certain bodily ills have been recognizedfor many generations. Tradition has it that their curative proper-ties were known to the Indians long before the Spanish invasion. It is prob-able that they were known to De Soto, who died in 1542, less than a hundredmiles away. It is tradition that Indian warring tribes suspended all hostilitiesat these healin
The national parks portfolio . Main Entrance to thk Hot Springs Rkskrvation SPRINGS OF HEALING ROM the slopes of a picturesque wooded hill among the wild and F romantic Ozark Mountains of Arkansas flow springs of hot waterwhose powers to alleviate certain bodily ills have been recognizedfor many generations. Tradition has it that their curative proper-ties were known to the Indians long before the Spanish invasion. It is prob-able that they were known to De Soto, who died in 1542, less than a hundredmiles away. It is tradition that Indian warring tribes suspended all hostilitiesat these healing springs whose neighborhood they called The Land of analyses of the waters disclose more than twenty chemicalconstituents, but it is not these nor their combination to which is principallyattributed the waters unquestioned helpfulness in many disordered conditions,but to their remarkable radioactivity. The reservation is the oldest national park, having received that statusin 1832, forty years before the wond
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