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...sheer size and exactitude of some of Adams' landscapes achieve an effect perilously close to Cinerama, as in "Winter Frost, Yosemite." Wellesley, openmouthed before all 20 square feet of "Thunderstorm, the Teton Range and Snake River, Wyoming," could finally say of the uncannily highlighted water only "Well, you can see why they call it the Snake River, all right...
...mile-high valley beneath Wyoming's Teton Range, the nation's Republican Governors assembled last week for a conference that was expected to have considerable bearing on the 1968 nominating convention. Representing half the states, with well over half the population and convention delegates, the Governors, had they been united, could have virtually locked up next summer's nomination. But they fell far short of agreement on anything except that it was too early to unite behind...
There is not much privacy at nearby Grand Teton National Park either. Last year a record 2,500,000 people trooped through the park; this year the rate is running 17% higher, and campgrounds are usually completely filled by 10:30 a.m. Campsites at Utah's Zion National Park have been crammed to capacity since early June, and a new "overflow" area is overflowing. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, stretching across parts of Tennessee and North Carolina, draws 6,000,000 visitors a year, highest of any park in the system, and traffic on summer weekends backs...
...directly linked to a U.S. cavalry expedition he led into the Black Hills of South Dakota two years before. Custer illegally invaded the Hills in the summer of 1874, the story goes, looking for gold. He discovered it and set off a gold rush that drove the hostile Teton Sioux out of their Dakota country and eventually forced them to make a last desperate stand on the banks of the Little Bighorn in Montana...
...Jackson Hole, in northwestern Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park, has a traffic jam now and again, but mostly when moose and elk saunter across the roads. Tourists drop by from almost everywhere, but it is a summer retreat for well-to-do families from California, Illinois, Colorado and Utah, who want to turn the kids free to enjoy the glories of unspoiled nature without entirely forsaking silver on the table, innerspring mattresses and modern plumbing. Because the late John D. Rockefeller Jr. fell in love with the area and set up a nonprofit corporation to provide facilities, visitors...