The national parks portfolio . in the Yellowstone National Park. The trees probably at one time grew beside an inland sea; after fallingthey became water-logged, and during decomposition the cell structure of thewood was entirely replaced by silica from sandstone in the surrounding land. SITKA NATIONAL MONUMENT, ALASKA T^HIS monument reservation is situated about a mile from the steamboat- landing at Sitka, Alaska. Upon this ground was located formerly thevillage of a warlike tribe—the Kik-Siti Indians—where the Russians underBaranoff in 1802 fought and won the **decisive battle of Alaska agai
The national parks portfolio . in the Yellowstone National Park. The trees probably at one time grew beside an inland sea; after fallingthey became water-logged, and during decomposition the cell structure of thewood was entirely replaced by silica from sandstone in the surrounding land. SITKA NATIONAL MONUMENT, ALASKA T^HIS monument reservation is situated about a mile from the steamboat- landing at Sitka, Alaska. Upon this ground was located formerly thevillage of a warlike tribe—the Kik-Siti Indians—where the Russians underBaranoff in 1802 fought and won the **decisive battle of Alaska against theIndians and effected the lodgment that offset the then active attempts of GreatBritain to possess this part of the country. The Russian title thus acquiredto the Alexander Archipelago was later transferred to the United States. A celebrated witch tree of the natives and sixteen totem poles, severalof which are examples of the best work of the savage genealogists of the Alaskaclans, stand sentrylike along the THE TUMACACORI NATIONAL MONUMENT nPHE Tumacacori National Monument in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, was•*• created to preserve a very ancient Spanish mission ruin dating, it is thought,from the latter part of the sixteenth century. It was built by Jesuit priestsfrom Spain and operated by them for over a century. After the year 1769 priests belonging to the order of Franciscan Fatherstook charge of the mission and repaired its crumbling walls, maintaining peace-able possession for about sixty years, until driven out by Apache Indians. GRAN QUIVIRA NATIONAL MONUMENT T^HE Gran Quivira has long been recognized as one of the most important^ of the earliest Spanish church or mission ruins in the Southwest. It is inCentral New Mexico. Near by are numerous Indian pueblo ruins, occupying anarea many acres in extent, which also, with sufficient land to protect them, wasreserved. The outside dimensions of the church ruin, which is in the form ofa short-arm cross,
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