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Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know

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Pike's PeakFrontispiece

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Sand Dunes in Arizona44

Grand Cañon of the Colorado45

Castles Carved by Rain and Wind52

Where All the Water Comes From53

The Richest Gold and Silver Mines72

Rocks Being Ground to Flour73

A Pond Made by a Glacier88

The Struggle Between a Stream and Its Banks89

Ripple Marks and Glacial Striæ102

Glacial Grooves and Markings103

Crinoid and Ammonite140

Fossil Corals, Coquina, Hippurite Limestone141

Fossil Fish152

Meteorite153

Eocene Fish and Trilobite156

How Coal Was Made157

Banded Sandstone. Opalized Wood176

Allosaurus177

A Three-horned Dinosaur178

Remains of Brontosaurus179

Restoration of Brontosaurus182

Ornitholestes, a Small Dinosaur183

A Mammoth186

An Ancestor of the Horse187

Orion, His Dogs, and the Bull214

Other Fanciful Sketches of Constellations215

The Sky in Winter244

The Sky in Spring244

The Sky in Summer244

The Sky in Autumn244

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