Excerpt from A Tour of America's National Parks In Sequoia and General Grant National Parks the giant sequoia grows - oldest and largest of living things. Sequoia National Park also has high scenic regions of such magnificence that Congress is considering the advisability of adding certain other mountain territory, including Mt. Whitney, the highest point in the United States, and dedicating this enlarged park as a great memorial to the late Theodore Roosevelt, giving to it his name. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.