Grand Canyon National Park (1960s)

[Music] [Music] this is some of the most hostile soil in the world and some of the prettiest wild flowers in the world growing their names are particularly important they're just there to soften an extremely rugged piece of land the wild pauses that combine to couch out the canyon have been long gone the brave little flowers of one [Music] of course there are evidences of the old day is still around the Colorado traces the main course of the original torrent for example the rock at the bottom of the canyon some of the black rock is 2 billion years old as a matter of fact from the river up to the top rim you can see examples of rocks from all of the known geological eras from what the scientists believe was the beginning after the present looking at the canyon is deceptive a whole chasm runs about 217 miles long and it's about 10 miles wide but the color and shapes the hundreds of different big and little natural attractions throw your perspective of a pastel peak maybe a mile away or 27 miles and if you wait a minute the Sun will move on and the whole scene will be changed the best thing to do was just to stand and look for a relatively dead piece of ground the canyon develops an astonishing amount of action [Music] if you like mules or if you want to see the canyon close up you'll sign up for a mule ride [Music] for a lot of people this crib builds its own separate set of memories [Music] with or without the mule the canyon is something to remember Phoenix Arizona an American airline city is pretty close to the canyon Grand Canyon has mules Phoenix has Astra Jets it's a pretty good working combination [Music]