Also by Horace M. Albright
The Birth of the National Park Service: The Founding Years, 1913-33 (Salt Lake City, 1985)
Oh, Ranger! (with Frank J. Taylor) (Stanford, 1928)
The Mather Mountain Party of 1915 (with Marian Albright Schenck) (Three Rivers, Calif., 1990)
This book is published with the generous assistance of
The McCasland Foundation,
Duncan, Oklahoma.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Albright, Horace M. (Horace Marden), 1890-1987.
Creating the National Park Service : the missing years / by Horace M.
Albright and Marian Albright Schenck ; foreword by Robert M. Utley.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-8061-3116-0 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. United States. National Park Service—History. 2. Albright, Horace M.
(Horace Marden), 1890-1987. 3. United States. National Park Service—
Officials and employees—Biography. I. Schenck, Marian Albright, 1921- .
II. Tide.
SB482.A4A3688 1999
353.78—dc21
98-43916
CIP
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Copyright © 1999 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A.
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My father wanted this book dedicated to "the Greenies"-
the National Park Service rangers in the field, the
dedicated, hard-working, backbone spirit of the service.