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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20021020
Author:Leslie Anderson, Globe Correspondent

Henry David Thoreau had only prose to convey the quiet beauty of Walden Pond.

To describe the majesty of California's Yosemite Valley, John Muir's tools were nothing but the sound of his voice and the scratchings of his pen.

But when Stephen Mather, the first director of the National Park Service, launched a mission in the early 1900s to convince Americans of the need to preserve their natural heritage, he decided words were not enough.

He turned to a photographer who had honed his skills retracing Thoreau's footsteps: Herbert Wendell Gleason.

A century has passed since Gleason lugged his ...

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