The Giant Sequoia
Reading edition
AN ACCOUNT OF THE HISTORY AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE BIG TREES OF CALIFORNIA
BY RODNEY SYDES ELLSWORTH
WITH TWELVE FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
J. D. BERGER OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 1924
COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY RODNEY SYDES ELLSWORTH
MARIPOSA GROVE
Photo by H. S. Hoyt
THE SUN WORSHIPPERS
Only at sunset does the Sequoia lose its dignity to become a thing of beauty
To My Grandmother
A living thing, Produced too slowly to decay, Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed. —Wordsworth.