Unexplored!

gestion, (flashing their distress with their pocket mirrors),

-a haze altogether unlike that which foretells a storm. In fact, the sun glinting from the w

en he felt the most. His lean body suddenly grew tense. "It'

e, as the huge bombing-plane came

rtunately, just above the wide sweep of the granite butte. Could it be engine trou

jolted to terra firma, within shouting distance,-and hardly h

he observer climbed out. It was Ranger Ra

the marooned ca

roke out in three places, all within twenty-four hours, and not even an electric storm to account for it. Want to help?"

wn towards Kings' River. In a few words, his voice vibrating to his high nervou

rn your burros out to forage for themselves, and I guess you'll find them again

donkeys down the trail to better pasturage. They might wander, but they would be safe. With their swift heels they could

of mountain sickness, and he had to lie flat till his

pose from the Zuni Mine. As corned beef and hardtack were distributed, the hungry campers thought they had never tasted

the Ranger explained when the boys returned, had broken so far from

nt part to play for the next few days,"

only detects fires and follows up campers or others who may have started them, (carelessly or otherwise), but in times of emergency carries the fire leader from one strategic point t

ble canyon it would have taken them days to have scaled afoot. By day they were merely to watch for flying brands. Thei

place this side of the river, and was eating its way along the slopes with the

ane, in its hangar in Burlingame, that it might be employed

es climbing tall pines and firs, racing from limb to limb, through the forest roof, devouring the steeps, doubtless richly coated with underbrush and downwood. The roar and crackle of it filled their ears sickeningly, as they thought of the

slopes never climbed by man, with the autumn rains months away, and the fire fighters like so many ants trying

been seen 50 miles away, the red sun scarcely lightening the gloom. Even where they landed, an occasional hot breath scorched their

, and so saves men and millions where every minute counts, will fight with glass bombs of fire extinguisher, whose trajectory falling from a 'pl

hat angle his ship was inclined. True, acetylene gas lamps properly protected from the wind could be made to light up the ground below when alighting, but at an al

iffe had challenged them, "you want to see Glacier National Park, with its ice-capped peaks and its precipices thousands of feet deep, its g

had laughed with

ready to go to Southern Alaska and try Mt. McKinley, which is worth while not so much because it is the highest mountain in North America, (Mt. Whitney is nearly as high), but because i

Sequoia Park,-is going to remain an unspoiled wilderness for a good many y

ern," Ace had agreed, "

hip

of co

Muir Trail right along the cr

Enough vacation places to last a lifetime! Rivers aliv

Long Lester ha

ey're the only living

cattle?" Pedro had

t break a leg or something that would leave you helpless, and you'd

to wrest away these beauty spots that we have set asid

t Dad says!" Ace

ave the parks, but because it would cost them a good deal less to secure these things of Uncle Sam than it would to build

and whisked them to their particular ridge, a table mountain, or butte,

d Long Lester, as Radcliffe bade them good-by,-fo

it?" demanded

dian half breed, who was just starting

he forested gorge, up which already rose a noticeable heat. The red tongues, racing through the spruce and cedar tops, shone

an clumsily, flat-footedly. A tiny shadow hopped from almost under their feet, and above their heads flapped a small covey of

d grime, their shirts clung wet with perspiration to their swellin

the fellow that start