. The national parks portfolio. Photograph by R. D. Adams From Right to Left: East Temple of the Sun, The Watchman, Mountain of the Sun. The Three Patriarchs—Vermilion Two-Thirds Up, with White Summits (243) MID-CONTINENT PARKS THE WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK T^HE Black Hills of southwestern South Dakota, scene of Custers first stand,* famous for many years for Indian fights and frontier lawlessness, are chieflycelebrated in this generation for a limestone cave of large size and interestingdecoration. It is called Wind Cave because of the strong currents of air whichalternate in and out of its mou
. The national parks portfolio. Photograph by R. D. Adams From Right to Left: East Temple of the Sun, The Watchman, Mountain of the Sun. The Three Patriarchs—Vermilion Two-Thirds Up, with White Summits (243) MID-CONTINENT PARKS THE WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK T^HE Black Hills of southwestern South Dakota, scene of Custers first stand,* famous for many years for Indian fights and frontier lawlessness, are chieflycelebrated in this generation for a limestone cave of large size and interestingdecoration. It is called Wind Cave because of the strong currents of air whichalternate in and out of its mouth. The walls and ceiling of the various passages and chambers which consti-tute the cave are elaborately covered with the formations common to mostcaves, which here result in tracery and carvings of the most elaborate and sur-prising description. The park is also a game preserve of unusual merit. THE PLATT NATIONAL PARK COUTHERN Oklahomas famous curative springs were conserved for the^ public benefit in 1906 by the creation of the Piatt National Park. Sulphursprings predominate, but there are bromide and other springs of medici
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