Grand Canyon National Park turns 100: How a place once called 'valueless' became grand
- Written by Stephen Pyne, Regents Professor in the School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Dawn on the south rim of the Grand Canyon.Murray Foubister/Wikimedia, CC BY-SAFew sights are as instantly recognizable, and few sites speak more fully to American nationalism. Standing on the South Rim in 1903, President Teddy Roosevelt proclaimed it “one of the great sights every American should see.”
It’s true. Every visitor...
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