The birth of the National park service the founding years 1913-33
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1985
- Author
- Albright, Horace M.
- Publisher
- Salt Lake City : Howe Bros.
- Call Number
- 13.2 A2t
- Author
- Albright, Horace M.
- Responsibility
- as told to Cahn, Robert
- Publisher
- Salt Lake City : Howe Bros.
- Published Date
- 1985
- Physical Description
- xii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Series
- Volume two of the Institute of the American West Books
- Subjects
- Biographies
- National parks
- Abstract
- This oral history was related by attorney Horace Albright who was involved in founding the National Park Service to a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. -Aurora
- Contents
- Go east, young man -- Enter Stephen Mather -- The campaign for a park service -- Troubles for the leader -- Organizing the Park Service -- A creed for the parks -- A turning point -- The Yellowstone era begins -- Defending the parks -- A grotesque scheme -- Building the ranger mystique -- Of parks and politics -- Great benefactor of the parks -- The man who tried to steal Grand Canyon -- Of princes, debutantes, bears and just folks -- A visit from Silent Cal -- Reluctant successor -- A formidable agenda -- Saved by grace -- On a firm footing -- A ride with FDR -- In my heart I never left -- Epilogue : a continuing alliance.
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 0935704337
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 13.2 A2t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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