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Mar 2025
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Our National Parks, by John Muir, Part 5

SHARON HANDY
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Let’s relax with more of this sleepy stroll through some of America’s greatest natural wonders, protected for the enjoyment of all people as national parks. This time, we continue our tour of Yosemite and its mighty glacier-carved mountains. Majestic! 

 

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