Show t Feature THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING JUNE Feature 9 1935 WESTERN SCENIC EMPIRE : New Worlds 'S’ Invites All Lovers of ¥ t v A i vi IM Lofty Peaks From Icy Caps of Montana's Glacier Park to' Tur-bulent Roar of the Nliglity Colorado Na- — tarellbltlsAllnrinAuractlons Legendary Lakes andCIiff5Forni— Rugged Picture By LEVI EDGAB YOUNG Head of the Department of Western History ’ University of Utah Summer has come It is the time when we escape from the hurry and scurry of our modern cities from the long months of hard work in office and town Nature is beckonThere are times with ing to new life in the great us all when the soul craves a holiday amid silence and solitude The human body has to recover its tone and nothing is more effective thandays spent In the mountains and on the streams where yo'fi eat and sleep under the guardianship of the stars To plunge into places off the beaten trail where you hear the waterfalls and listen to the birds and smell the flowers of the woods will give you am tacreased ardor fotf your work and you your "home withTa wealth of happy memories bodily and mentally refreshed and ready for the routine of your daily duties “ v nerve-racki- - I- C A'’! - il ft? fl fi lv v Nature’s masterpieces '? V — J o v V 'At ' K L Easy to Reach Playground Sierra-Neva- -— excellent roads lead to the mighty Yellowstone to the towering peaks of the Tetons in Wyoming They find their way into the glorious scenic areas of Idaho — the Sawtooths and the lovely lakes In Utah these roads wind down to the marvelous Zion and Bryce canyon national parks and the Wayne wonderland while gigantic Boulder dam in Nevada is brought before the eyes of the traveler over good highways You may have traveled near the Canadian border whither you have come over old buffalo or Indian trails which are now the finest highways in the world Almost suddenly but with keen anticipation you may enter the land of glaciers and lakes Or possibly you have come nestled beneath gigantic into this playground world by a more southerly route and you fallen in ruins find yourself standing before a Not p sound anywhere except the call of the lark or the sound of a squirrel from some near-b- y pine tree In either case you are stirred to new feelings and thoughts and you sense the finer qualities of your nature ks cliff-dwelli- ng Sun Gives Extravagant Beauty To play is sot Playgrounds! only to run and fish and hunt and have games To play means the joy of seeing Nature as she has been created through the ages It is to be overwhelmed by the mysterious and creative forces of Nature where the native red-m- an roamed and saw God In the!' clouds and heard Him in the To verify what I say winds stand some evening or in the y early morning on the edge of the the Colorado Grand canyon-o- f river” 4 fAj “Supreme indeed it is in size” say George Wharton James “in width length and depth— in ite variety of sculptured form in the gamut of color revealed in the vastness of the peat river which working through the patient ages has been the chief in-- '7 strument of its manufacture and now angrily sullenly noisily at others sometimes - quietly thunderingljr and blusteringly dashes its way to the desert and later to the open sea” The Grand canyon has s weird effect upon you and though you try to leave It you are drawn back to its brtak again srnd agaiq : y by its alluring Influence on But’ and time is basteniqg jan: adventures enacted among the you must see the Boulder dam curious and grotesque pinnacles farther down the river Possibly hollows and cliffs of this vast the greatest engineering feat in amphitheater In flaming color all history it is now nearly finThe whole gives the impression ished and the largest' artificial of a vast ruined and deserted city lake in the world is being created whose Scehery in pomp and iplem Your Visit to Boulder dam forms dor stiR remains in the scarlet a tine climax to your holiday' and gold of ths rocks It ranks and when you drive on you will with ths greatest of the world’s feel again the glory of thia great natural wonders You first view work of nature and of man" V v the- canyon from k the rim end IWI of Mystwy many of the giant monoliths exceed In height the tallest buildHow true it is that the intimacy ings of America You travel on between man and Nature began to the Cedar Breaks : You follow up Cedar canyon past a beautiful with the birth of man on the natural bridge When youlook earth and all the time it becomes at the“WaUs of Jericho" and the more Intelligent and far reaching "Gate of the Forbidden City” you Nature is full of mystery and L1 tv 1 in-fin- T i si far-aw- ay J ' Thfese ice-pea- V 4 A-- da To Mighty Yellowstone Joy of Nature f I i "A - In these days of the automobile the bus lines and the won- — Np4f v i ting of mountains and deserts art i 3 derfully equipped railroad trains you can soon reach the play- grounds of this intermountain country If you are motoring you may find yourself entering at the dosft of a summer’s evening some lovely vale surrounded by wooded hills which culminate in great peaks covered with Ice and snow Deep and beautiful streams come tumbling over rocks and through the canyon gorges and you camp for the night among columbines and wild roses You are in a new world for in this intermbuntain country are the wonderlands of America The roads to this vast playground are varied and many And throughout the area is a network of them leading to the numerous wonders They invite the vacationist to enjoy himself in this great wonderland bounded bn the soutkby the great gorge of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado in northern Arizona on the north by the “top of the world” glorious Glacier national park and on the east in Montana on the west by the by the intriguing national parks of Colorado — t A ng out-of-do- ors will-return-t- IlfUg The wide variety of ' scenic : and' recreational attractions in the great playground of the intermountain west call to vacationists the world over The accompanying pictures illustrate the nature of wonders which make this region grow ever more popular with travelers 1 Rainbow natural bridge one of many such spans to be found in the west It is in southern Utah 2 Bryce canyon another Utah attraction ' 3 A gleaming ' sunset at Black Rock on Great Salt lake 4' The Kalbab national forest Forests occupy a large part of the west and are S Jenny lake most beautiful in the Grand Teton country of 9 6 A view of the Wyoming mighty Grand Canyon of the Colorado of Arizona as seen from Bright Angel Point 7 Hayden’s peak in a region of supreme beauty the Uintah mountains of eastern Utah 8 Even the desert becomes a thing This picture was of beauty taken near the The sunshine plays in extravagant beauty all the days In this land of mountains and valleys Here you may fish and climb into the clouds and he who has not climbed a mountain has not reached out into the unknown You are off for days of rest All the wbrld lies before you and every day is a holiday so it'does not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses you should wander first Come to the “Roof of the Continent” and enter Glacier national park where there are eight line large glaciers and more than 250 I J £ jV t AAA : "A - & I: A -- Utah-Neva- vf v J1 da ' --— tt- - —— — ‘ r- - no outlet Like all mountain-locke- d greasewood stretch for miles sole means of travel color of the spectrum a vast rent lay iHey Indian seas it is subject to quick along the rocky slopes As you was pony in the mountain valley one-thiwhose hoofs were Worn off and and sudden changes and when a penetrate the rooms of one of of a mile deep and at its bottom on its waters the the old dwellings yourinterest is too far away to be heard dashes yet bearing the burden of the storm rises with waves with whitecapa rise enhanced for the houses were Indian her tipped girl together the vexed river a hundred feet your luck You get out your made high in restless beauty All sum-m- er built of stone In the rooms fishing tackle but you must be wide but seemingly a mere three little boys the pony to the Columbil and led ita its on the alert for the larger trout the were found" way upon gulls pottery long basketry play writhing thread of emerald" The fight hard for their lives Withthe men to safety surface Many years ago they stone implements and cotton falls in distance are the dazzling will have minutes a few in you You make your way southward saved the wheat fields by de- doth On the walls mystical Columns of snowy whiteness the joy of a large “rainbow" fryare not uncommon to the mystic inland sea— the vouring a pest of crickets ing in the pan over the campedged witlf rainbows and half Salt Lake sometimes called vales of Greet fire “One who has not tasted Through peaceful Towering Heights hidden in white mist In the trout cooked fresh above a hot the“Dead sea" of America A farms and gardens you pass These scenes of a far-pacivil-afternoon of late the walls the stone does not know the taste of shrunken remnant of an ancient Mount Timpanogos called the ization lie in the domain of the trout that melts in your mouth” canyon are gloriously yellow lake that found its way to the “Patriarch of Mountains” If you national parks and monuments of Flowers and forests are everywith reds and deep blues playPacific Ocean by way of the Co- have an hour or two of extra the west where There are great conifers ing oh them Bryce canyon Cedar Few Indians have ever entered lumbia river it has more than time you will want to climb to Breaks Zion and the Kaibab for maples’ poplars pines larches cedars spruces and giant firs the park due to a superstitious half a dozen mountain islands the top by way of the Aspen est are’ picturesque names In And what a wealth of flowers! A Piute Indian descendant of fear and one old chief told a gov Of recent years Antelope island Grove traiL The scene from its Zion national park the majesty Not alone does the edelweiss mighty tribe which Once emment official that the bad has been used as a pasturage for of Switzerland summit is' one you will never of toweringis heights and glorious the in Alps grow roamed the 'west- He and Jiis spirits (here kept watch about deeply impressive coloring all of American bison a the edelweiss grows here hot springs and geysers to large herd forget Beautiful valleys of homes Here are to be found unexplored live on govern- the kill all strangers who should en If you should want to see birds and ‘farms lie bpneath you and canyons and snow-cla- d year around It nestles near the people today peaks— points of fer this mystic land glaciers and partakes of the ment reservations by the thousands— chiefly pelican see mountain silent but vivid reminders again whiteness of its surroundings high interest for tourists You travel south to the Jack-so- n cans blue herons and sea gulls — as far as eye who lived here ages n There are daisies and sunflowers Hole country as beautiful a you could visit Hat or Bird island ranges bathed in gray mist lie of the people of acres of thousands The ago and asters and the windflower will enhance the beauty of to- valley as you and will find in all the It would be impossible to walk miles away adding charm terthis park form the southern or spring anemone with her world Forested mountains ev- among the nests without stepping glory to every landscape day and tomorrow minus of the Wasatch range of “wooly hair to protect her seedon eggs and the beyond rising erywhere Head for Yellowstone mountains Then there is Bryce ling from neur&ligia in the chill Race Long Gone steel blue of the Jackson lake The sunsets on the lake hold canyon one of the scenic marvels of the mountain snows” You are next headed for Yel- are the Teton mountains with the ’you in e spell of wonderment Good roads are the means of Rich Experience lowstone national paric another “Grand Teton” rising still higher Nowhere in the world ere the solid blue of a cloud- colors of the sky so vivid unless quick transportation and through I Day follows day In rich ex- land of mystery where sparkling against the : In the winter time i it be those of the Mediterranean the country for miles you travel wonder and the starry heaven less sky-af- waterfallssee You late the - great geysers gorperiences the where the air is exhilarating Yet ternoon sun playing on the gla geous canyons a wildly dashing is worth the trip to see it with sea As the sun slips beyond shine for all “but with what ciers you lose yourselves on the river and forests and mountains the many other peaks contiguous hills there is a converging- path before you realize it you are In 30 to For of water across for and the beauty and grandeur to those beauty the hills at the foot of mountain it grandeur banka of the Medicine lakes are unexcelled in grandeur glory It where the Blackfeet used to set is a wild country to this t day it is unmatched by any other miles peaks and looking up who see in every midnight sky The Inland sea Is unique strange ruin where once lived a tie their disputes Two Medicine where you see bears so near the mountain of this vast hinterland the majesty of God’s creative lake is most beautiful of all: “A well kept roads that you step on It is all so impressive that - you Known to the (Spaniards as early people long since gone You leave as Landor’s 1778 of was think it mentioned Walter first of road auto the the side set buff and to Savage amid by blue on andmbve accelerator by your your sapphire power” You have discovered and La Hontan a French fur trader and climbing up T mys green and yellow and red moun- a camp or hotel to watch some iineSMr' You have-se- en played a new-worlV 1 tains sheer as a wall sharp as geyser spout or to' hear the “We are what suns and winds t in4689 Two Spaniards stood on terieus ruinv y ou become more where the universal beauty i810 uk Bonnewaters in make and its chores and more enraptured with the a spire”":? Captain “growls” of Old 'Faithfuf as V ever you have gone Nature never spon ville’s men looked upon its waters surroundings and the air of Before leaving the park you graceful Column of water six feet The mountains rxs !— and the riUs in 1833 and Fremont described it the long ago The country is will meet the Blackfoot Indians in diameter rises to a height of rests yet Is always in repose She deadly sheet one of wild beauty and mounand they will sit some’ evening 150 feet The Grand Canyon of Fashion and win their nursling as a sullen-listles- s never ceases to work and yet With their smiles" of water Such it is not tains glorify every landscape with you before your campfire the Yellowstone is the most al- Snake-rive- r — always appears to be at play pasa-oveYou a You-seethe western — r a 'and -it of and tradU Burial grounds' and “Alternately" Says villages Pettiness rich its lore in historic and selfishness have for along tions of this land of ice forest people of bygone ages are evident : its banks went the early day fur beeiuiriYenouLflLyQur-SQuLyoand mountains u everywhere All the ruins indi vynur days’ in Glarjpf natinnalthT£BonrlhcforaLCjttrti!&altraderaJnd-yOUimag- i a different person Your are J its eastern shore lies the mote-pa- st there dwelt a people park have come to an end and as words of one writer and he con- - ter scene when snow was many Along ’ nerves are more steady you have here with ' a developed form’ of you leave to go southward along tinues:' "Words are indeed idle feet deep as an Indian girl lead- - “ but noble thoughts A nothing life the foothills of the Bitter Root photographs are misleading the mg the starving remnant of one and industrial government Ammountains you wonder if any masterpiece of the artist is inade- of the Astor parties gave birth all this great intermountain granImplements and weapons found in the ruins show a very old culother part of the world could be quate The awful distance the to a baby boy deur has preated rich andTtobie ss so besutift’i dawn ture A ruin may be surrounded Pit as each day to overpowering outlook on life among its people Fed Used conBuffalo Streams In Robe to silent sit by with spruce pine and cedar for- of the world It is a multicolored are compelled you is wonderful and full Of 6poA one only when his own eyes so it has had the came effect upon is hand! the bea Nature You wonderland lower is down so scene lake Her the lies It came because of look the ests from may fed warmth in mountain while picture templation The upon glory only yesterday by thq of God and here in a set- - you you have much more to see that fore you resplendent in every the buffalo robe under which she streams of the Wasatch and there levels scrub oalq sagebrush and whole series of Arabian Night work ' lakes surrounded by steep and wooded mountains Here are crystal streams flowing through meadows where speckled and rainbow trout challenge you to try half-starv- ed rd hs w I' st 3 ' n :r ’ - ve-tne- -- " 4 |