“Moving slowly across jumbled, flat rocks at a gentle angle, we were almost surprised when we found we had run out of mountain. “By July 26 everyone in the party looked like a caveman.” Photo by Scherer Studio, Washington, D.C.Īlbright with the Mather Mountain Party in the Sierra Nevada, California, July 14-29, 1915. Standing left to right: Bird Rattlers, Curly Bear, Wolf Plume, and Indian Interpreters, H. In their hands were small steel hatchets, not Indian tomahawks. Three Blackfeet chiefs visited Mather (seated at desk) in April 1915 to protest the use of white men’s names in Glacier Peak. Ackers, Robert Yard, and Colonel Lloyd Brett. At Christmas I received my first portrait of my “beautiful brown eyes,” as I called Grace.Īrriving on the private Pullman car Calzona for the National Park Conference, which opened in Berkeley, California, on March 11, 1915, were (left to right) Oliver Mitchell, Stephen Mather, Horace Albright, Congressman Denver Church, Robert B. Albright graduated from Georgetown Law School on June 16, 1914. Horace Marden Albright is farthest on the right. “Perhaps more than to either of my parents, I looked to my maternal grandfather, Horace Marden, as a model.” He is seen here with his wife, Lizzie their two daughters (the only survivors of nine children) and their husbands, Wils Yandell and George Albright and their grandchildren. The National Park Service rangers in the field, theĭedicated, hard-working, backbone spirit of the service. My father wanted this book dedicated to “the Greenies”. °°Ĭopyright © 1999 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc. (Horace Marden), 1890-1987.Ĭreating the National Park Service : the missing years / by Horace M.Īlbright and Marian Albright Schenck foreword by Robert M. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataĪlbright, Horace M. This book is published with the generous assistance of The Mather Mountain Party of 1915 (with Marian Albright Schenck) (Three Rivers, Calif., 1990) The Birth of the National Park Service: The Founding Years, 1913-33 (Salt Lake City, 1985) Albright and Marian Albright Schenck, Foreword by Robert M. Print Friendly Creating the National Park Service: The Missing Years,īy Horace M.
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