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...Call of the Canyon. Glenn Kilbourne survives gassing in the War. But on his return the spectacle of his love fox-trotting and crap-shooting knocks him out. The Doctor ships him to Arizona, where a ravishing (but simple) ranchman's 'daughter nurses him back to health. Meanwhile the fox-trotter and crap-shooter runs out to Arizona for a personally conducted tour of inspection. A bad old villain chases her through a fearful storm to a deserted cabin. The hero rescues her, but she returns to fox-trotting. There is still the ranchman's daughter. Marjorie...
...Present, Future; Playgrounds of the United States (by Hubert Work); Pension Office Will Speed Up; /Suggestions on Women's Apparel. The illustrations consist of 35 photographs of New York City, photographs of two authors of articles, six photographs of National Parks (including Old Faithful Geyser, Yosemite Falls, the Grand Canyon and the giant trees of California) and three fashion plates. Its contributors include Major General A. W. Greeley, Mrs. Fiske (actress), Albert B. Cummins (Senator), Edwin Denby (Secretary of Navy) Ethelda Bleibtrey (swimmer...
...villages of prehistoric cliff dwellings in the Mesa Verde National Park have been found quite as interesting, while the great ranges about Mount Rainer are thought to compare favorably with the Swiss Alps. As for the animal life in the Yellowstone, the majestic pageant of the Grand Canyon, the giant groves in the Sequoia, Europe can nowhere offer parallels. The Harvard trip, in touring this western country, will not only give its explorers a suggestion of the extent and resources of their country but prove to them that Americans can go abroad in their own backyard...
...itinerary is the Yosemite National Park, where the party will be conducted to the Upper and Lower Yosemite Fall, the highest cascade in the world. At the Sequoia Park the travelers will pass through the grove of giant trees and from there will proceed to the Grand Canyon and the Mesa Verde National Park, to inspect the cliff dwellings...
...whole night (between Indianapolis and Tucumcari gravestones in New Mexico) they flew with a compass as their sole guide. Crossing Arizona in the morning and flying low to get their bearings anew, they piloted their Fokker T-2 in a country of forests, ravines and canyons, treacherous air currents, and at one point flew most dangerously between the walls of a deep canyon. Yet they pronounced their flight " humdrum," and landed in perfect condition-except for hearing slightly affected by the continuous roar of the motor...