TABLE OF CONTENTS (The following links point to documents that are in PDF format) Contents, Forward, PrefaceChapter 1: Boyhood Days in the Owens Valley, 1890-1908 Chapter 2: University of California, 1908-13 Chapter 3: Washington, D.C., 1913-14 Chapter 4: Enter Stephen Tyng Mather, 1914-15 Chapter 5: Personnel and Personalities, 1915 Chapter 6: First Steps toward a National Park Service, 1915 Chapter 7: The Mather Mountain Party, 1915 Chapter 8: Exploring the Parks, North by Northwest, 1915 Chapter 9: Wonderland and Beyond, 1915 Chapter 10: Hot Springs, Battlefields, and a Wedding, 1915-16 Chapter 11: Western Adventures and Washington Maneuvers, 1916 Chapter 12: A National Park Service is Born, 1916 Chapter 13: Troubling Signs, 1916 Chapter 14: Collapse, 1917 Chapter 15: On My Own, 1917 Chapter 16: "Hoofed Locusts," 1917 Chapter 17: Summer in the Parks, 1917 Chapter 18: Exploring a New World of Parks, 1917 Chapter 19: Light at the End of the Tunnel, 1917 Chapter 20: Park and Resource Preservation, 1918 Chapter 21: A Creed for the Park Service, 1918 Chapter 22: Greater Yellowstone, 1918 Chapter 23: "I'm Coming Down to Washington," 1918 Chapter 24: A Step Backward, 1918 Chapter 25: A New Year and a New Future, 1919 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Image 1 Horace Albright's maternal grandfather, Horace Marden Image 2 Horace M. Albright, June 16, 1914 Image 3 Grace Marian Noble, 1914 Image 4 Arriving on the private Pullman car Calzona for the National Park Conference, which opened in Berkeley, California, on March 11, 1915 Image 5 Three Blackfeet chiefs visited Mather in April 1915 Image 6 Albright with the Mather Mountain Party in the Sierra Nevada, California, July 14-29, 1915 Image 7 Twelve of the Mather Mountain Party at the summit of Mount Whitney Image 8 Mather, Albright, and companions at Nisquilly Glacier, Mountain Rainier National Park, August 27, 1915 Image 9 Albright's first visit to the Grand Canyon, July 11, 1915 Image 10 Charles Trowbridge, Stephen Mather, and Horace Albright at the dedication of Rocky Mountain National Park, September 4, 1915 Image 11 Albright at Mammoth Hot Springs, September 1915 Image 12 Mather on a horseback trip to Ozark-Lithia Springs, Arkansas, December 3, 1915 Image 13 Honeymoon at Grand Canyon, Hermit's Rest, January 1916 Image 14 The second Mather Mountain Party, August 1916 Image 15 Secretary Lane at Sieur de Monts National Monument, Maine, August 1, 1917 Image 16 Albright and others visiting Yosemite, August 17, 1917 Image 17 Spruce Tree House, Mesa Verde National Park, September 12, 1917 Image 18 Albright and fellow mountaineers on the summit of Mount Evans, October 5, 1918 Image 19 Mather and a party of friends at Mount Rainier, December 1918 Image 20 Horace Albright, superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, July 15, 1919 Map 1 National Parks and Monuments, October 1, 1917 (included in Introduction section) albright2/contents.htm Last Updated: 01-Oct-2003 |