1951 April Buick Magazine Fishing Cover Fort Worth Texas Idaho Virginia Buffalo

Description: Excellent condition 16 Pages GARDEN WEEK in Virginia Mansions and estates open to visitors from April 21 through April 28 By ADELIA C. MATTHEWS ONCE AGAIN, during Historic Garden Week- April 21 through April 28 this year-The Garden Club of Virginia will play host to thousands of tourists. Throughout the commonwealth, ante-bellum man- sions, plantation houses, and colonial estates will be opened to visitors in a kind of state-wide "open house," at a season when the region's fabulous gardens are in full bloom and the weather is ideal for rambling in the out-of-doors. Everything is made convenient for you. The club supplies a detailed guidebook which describes the gar- you how to reach ----------- 2 ----------- By ADELIA C. MATTHEWS ONCE AGAIN, during Historic Garden Week- April 21 through April 28 this year-The Garden Club of Virginia will play host to thousands of tourists. Throughout the commonwealth, ante-bellum man- sions, plantation houses, and colonial estates will be opened to visitors in a kind of state-wide "open house," at a season when the region's fabulous gardens are in full bloom and the weather is ideal for rambling in the out-of-doors. Everything is made convenient for you. The club supplies a detailed guidebook which describes the gar- dens and estates that are open, tells you how to reach them and gives the visiting hours. Information centers are scattered throughout the state. Green arrows are placed along the roadways to guide you. Even the journeys from place to place are a delight, for in late April the roads are breath-takingly dressed in redbud, rhododendron, and dogwood blooms. No better time could be chosen for a tour of old Virginia, for more places are accessible during Historic Garden Week than at any other period. Besides the more than 200 homes, estates, and gardens to visit, there are scores of historic sites, buildings, museums, towns, taverns, and inns that revive the atmosphere of America's colonial past. At many gardens, there is a small admission fee, but visitors make the payments gladly-not only because the places are a genuine delight but also because the funds collected in this way are used by the Garden Club for garden restorations. Since 1929, the proceeds from Garden Week have financed restorations at fourteen historic places in Virginia. The most ambitious project yet attempted by the club is the restoration of "certain yards and gardens" at the University of Virginia according to original plans made by Jefferson, in 1822. Funds have been accumulated for several years for this work. Each year, the club receives requests from shrines throughout the state requesting restoration assistance. These are all considered on their merits, and work is started only upon the condition that the shrine assume full responsibility for maintenance once the grounds are restored. The list grows longer every year. The list of visitors grows longer too. Last year, more than 30,000 persons from forty-three states and five foreign countries thronged into Virginia during Historic Garden Week. Even more are expected in 1951. A guidebook and details may be obtained from The Garden. Club of Virginia, Jefferson Hotel, Richmond 19, Virginia.. Gardens at the Governor's Palace, Williamsburg ORS CORPORATION 3 ----------- 3 ----------- FAM AMILY P LAYGROUND J.S. FOREST SERVICE PHOTOS National forests offer attractive recreation facilities Spirit Lake, at the foot of Mount St. Helena, in Washington Miles of trails along with the ----------- 4 ----------- By JACK L. GALE COMES SPRING, and the wanderlust grows stronger. The desire "to get away from it all" is felt across the country. But thoughts of long drives and high costs of travel are dis- couraging. Yet, within a day's drive of prac- tically any city or town in the United States is one of nature's playgrounds, available to all with a minimum of expense. Camping, fishing, hiking, picnicking, or just relaxing-all of these and more may be found in the national forests scattered through- out our country. In all, there are about 150 of /these areas, located in forty states. They com- prise over one tenth of the total land area. If each person were given his share of the nation- al forests, it would amount to more han an acre, or an area approximately the size of a football field. The national forests, under the jurisdic- tion of the U. S. Forest Service, U. S. Depart- ment of Agriculture, are not to be confused with the national parks, which are operated by the National Park Service. The parks are "natural galleries around natural centers of attraction." They surround something spe- cific for the public to see or enjoy. The Grand Canyon, Mammoth Cave, and Yosemite Valley are good examples. The parks are run largely on the single-use principle; that is, ----------- 7 ----------- ridge PHOTOS BY JOSEF MUENCH Rainbow Natural Bridge, in Southeastern Utah Trail leads through canyon and mesa country Land of the RAINBOW ----------- 5 ----------- ts off primarily for preservation of some outstand- ing scenic or historic feature; whereas, the forests are operated on the principle of mul- tiple use. They have been established to conserve timber, wildlife, grazing areas, water, and to retain the natural beauty of the land. National forest recreation facilities are adapted to the individual locale, but in each there is a definite attempt to make the great outdoors pleasantly accessible to the average family at a minimum of expense. The em- phasis in recreation is on participation sports. There are some 80,000 miles of streams, and many thousands of natural and artificial lakes within the national forests available to the fisherman. These are regulated and kept well stocked. Other wildlife abounds in the national forests, which have been called appropriately "zoos without cages." At least one species of deer is found on each of the national forests. In addition to deer, many of the forests now contain elk, bear, moose, bighorn sheep, and antelope. Even the wildcat, lynx, mountain lion, and wolf are found, but are kept reduced because they prey on domestic livestock. Hunting is allowed in national forests. State laws apply. Camping facilities are abundantly pro- vided. There are more than 4,000 camping sites already established, and more are needed ----------- 7 ----------- By PHILIP FERRY NESTLING at the base of 10,000-foot Navajo Mountain, in southeastern Utah, is Rainbow Lodge, a low structure of native rock which stands as a kind of outpost of civili- zation. Located just over the state line from Arizona, the lodge is 200 miles from the near- est railroad, but only fourteen miles from one of the most famed natural phenomena in the southwest-Rainbow Bridge. The approach road to the lodge is of in- ferior quality, but nevertheless is negotiable. Leaving Flagstaff, one drives seventy miles north to Cameron, Arizona, thence north- eastward to Tuba City, and finally northward some 100 miles to the lodge. The lodge out- fits parties for a three-day excursion to the bridge, providing guide service, pack and saddle animals, and meals, the latter prepared. by the guide, who is also camp cook. Rainbow Bridge is a fitting climax to the country as a whole. Every step of the fourteen miles of trail from the lodge to the bridge is 6 ----------- 8 ----------- filled with rugged beauty. The route traverses an elaborate series of deep, rock-walled can- yons, crossing five major gorges and twice that number of minor chasms, and is filled with the typical color of the canyon and mcsa country. In the spring months, Redbud Pass, a nar- row corridor where the trail climbs up and down a great mass of talus and debris, is filled with a colorful display of redbud. The erosive action of wind and water which carved out the bridge has also created some fanciful sculpture in the tributary can- yons. In Cliff Canyon, this erosive action has resulted in a realistic array of rounded sand- stone forms which resemble so many elephants. The most thrilling sight of course is the bridge itself. Rainbow Bridge is one of the most amazing natural formations in the south- west. In a land where bridges and arches exist by the hundreds, Rainbow is something apart. It is a true bridge arching a stream and not an elaborate hole eroded in the canyon wall. It is possible to walk under the arch and ----------- 9 ----------- PHOTOS BY BEN AND SID ROSS Buffalo Ranch Rancher in Kansas has largest private herd of bison ----------- 10 ----------- By SID ROSS HOME, home on what used to be the range-more specifically a few miles from the quiet town of Independence, Kansas-a husky, young swimming-pool contractor operates an interesting and unusual enterprise-a buffalo ranch. The American buffalo-more properly called the bison-is being bred and raised by rancher Gene Clark to wind up as "buffalo burgers" and steaks for the finest restaurants. To date, Clark has about 230 head of the strong, powerful animals, including bulls, cows, and calves. The whole thing is a long-term project. Clark will have to wait a few more years and keep his fingers crossed before he can hope to cash in on the "buffalo-burger" market. Build- ing up a profitable buffalo herd is a painfully slow process. "Every once in a while the government lets me know that I can buy another buffalo," says Clark. "Then I travel all the way out to Montana or Wyoming and transport a single animal back here by trailer." Fifteen years ago, there were only a few bison left in America, although at one time hundreds of thousands of the animals used to darken the western plains. A few buffalo were owned by an old Indian in Montana. The government stepped in to prevent the bison from becoming extinct. Today, including the government herds, animals in zoos and buffalo in a few private herds (of which Clark's is ----------- 11 ----------- the largest) there are about 8,000 buffalo in the country. Clark formerly constructed swimming pools in Hollywood. One day several years ago, while talking to a group of friends in California, somebody mentioned that it would be a good idea to market buffalo meat, except for the fact that so few of the animals were around and they were impossible to raise any- way. Clark opined that any man who really set his mind to it could do the job. "I was practically forced into buffalo ranching on a dare," he says. "I hadn't the faintest idea of what I was getting into." He chose his father's farm, near Indepen- dence, because it was the bison's home terri- tory, the old range country. Then the fun began. First came the patient, one-by-one accumulation of the animals, mostly cows. Feed wasn't much of a problem; there was grazing land aplenty. But he soon found out that ordinary fences and corrals were insufficient. The tremen- dously powerful beasts went right through ordinary fences whenever the mood struck them. "Nothing well almost nothing can stop a buffalo stampede," says Clark. "No horse can hold a buffalo at the end of a lariat, either. A bull can turn a truck right over and toss you twenty feet with his - ----------- 13 ----------- Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Jewett, of Flint, Michigan, are enthusiastic about the performance of Dynaflow Drive on their round trip of 12,000 miles to the Arctic Circle via the Alaska Highway ----------- 13 ----------- m "Fifteen Buicks in four years prove how satisfied we are with Buick. performance," say the Noble brothers of DuBois, Pennsylvania. Left to right are Rocco, John, Roland, and Joseph ----------- 14 ----------- Fazem itiran pi BARCELAD CONTINENTAL The "cow town" has a modern look WHERE THE PHOTOS BY HERB MCLAUGHLIN Fort Worth's World's Championship Rodeo is held annually, in March TY WEST BEGINS ----------- 15 ----------- By MARY JANE ANDERSON THE MASTHEAD of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram proclaims that the city stands "where the west begins." Other Texas towns might protest this claim, but Forth Worth makes it with good reasons. To the east lies the rich Grand Prairie, green with orchards and truck farms; but, westward, across the banks of the Trinity River, roll the dry, treeless plains that stretch on into the deserts of the west. In keeping with its oddly divided geographical location, the whole atmosphere of the city is a blend of the east and west. The city is clean and smokeless because natural gas is used for fuel. Its architecture is as modern as that of any city east of the Mississippi, but booted cowboys and businessmen in ten-gallon Stetsons can always be seen on its streets. Fort Worth's location, in North Central Texas, makes it a hub for big business interests, but it is largely western business. As the fourth largest city in Texas, it is the largest grain and cattle market in the southwest, and the largest packing center south of Kansas City. Nearly three million head of livestock pass through the Fort Worth market annually. The Stock Exchange, one of the most important buildings, is Spanish style, and is one of the more famous examples of western architecture in the city. The stockyards, which cover over 250 acres, are as fascinating to the tourist as to the veteran cattle raiser. Acres and acres of bawling, fenced-in, white-face cattle offer something that few easterners can see before they get to Fort Worth. Another point of interest is the Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum and Auditorium. This building, with its spacious neo- classic curves and the slender contrasting tower, is an inspiring civic memorial to an American hero. The annual Fat Stock Show, the Exposition, and the World's Championship Rodeo, each March, are held here. ----------- 16 ----------- Though Fort Worth is young culturally, it does have its orchestra, and gives other musical entertainment as well as the symphony concerts in the Auditorium. In front of the Memorial Building, beyond the concrete walks, stands an appealingly realistic statue of Will Rogers on horseback. Will Rogers liked to call Fort Worth his "home away from home." And Fort Worth has returned the compliment with its memorial. There are forty-seven parks in and around Fort Worth. Some of the parks are just stretches of greenness, but others have all the recreational facilities that tired tourists and residents enjoy. There are swimming pools, riding stables, golf courses, and tennis courts. Of course, the dude ranches are particularly attractive to the fellow who's been riding herd on a desk for many months. The Botanical Gardens in Trinity Park are one of the beauty spots of Forth Worth well worth a visit. Trinity River itself lends much grace to the city as it winds all the way across town. Also part of the park system, but of economic value as reservoirs, are the three artificial lakes near the city-Lake Worth, Mountain Lake, and Lake Bridgeport. Water skiing, sailboating, and other aquatic sports are added to the recreational possibilities of the parks. Fort Worth is as rich in romantic history as it is in vacation lures and economic assets. Actually, there never was a fort. Major ----------- 17 ----------- IDAHO'S (SAWLOG ROUNDUP Spring brings another log drive on the Clearwater River ----------- 19 ----------- gr River loggers retread their own boots By O. A. FITZGERALD DOWN OWN eighty miles of Idaho's Clearwater River, thirty-five picked "white water log- gers," each spring in April or May, ride herd on enough sawlogs to pro- vide the lumber for seven thousand average five- room houses. The river that Lewis and Clark fol- lowed to the Pacific is the scene of the last of the big river drives, the last stand of the river logger. Potlatch Forests, Inc., one of the nation's largest white pine operators, pro- vides the logs and the river riders, while the Breaking up a small wing jam ----------- 19 ----------- river that was so dear to the Nez Perce Indians provides the raging water and the frequent thrills. Sometimes, chunks of ice from the spring breakup, loggers, and sawlogs-all come down together. First part of the drive is through a rugged, roadless canyon. During that time the men, who in their more boisterous moments call themselves "river pigs," are all alone. But, when the drive passes the mouth of Elk Creek on the north fork of the Clearwater, the gallery begins to grow. From then on, log jams in the river occasionally are accompanied by traffic jams on the river road. Pointing out where anyone interested in seeing river loggers and their floating homes can get a ringside seat for logging's biggest show is easy. Telling that person when to occupy that seat is not. Only the river itself can answer that one. The sixty-mile-long ringside seat begins at Elk Creek, about eighteen miles upstream

Price: 24.95 USD

Location: Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

End Time: 2024-12-02T16:03:43.000Z

Shipping Cost: N/A USD