Big Bend Administrative History

¹ Maxwell, "Annual Report, Big Bend National Park," July 6, 1945, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments, and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 2, Folder: 200 (NPS) Administration and Personnel Big Bend, DEN NARA.

² Ibid.

³ Ibid.

⁴ Ibid.

⁵ Maxwell, "Annual Report, Big Bend National Park," July 1, 1946, Science and Resources Management Library, Big Bend National Park.

⁶ Ibid.

⁷ Ibid.

⁸ Ibid.

⁹ Memorandum of Maxwell for the NPS Director, May 28, 1947, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments, and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 3, Folder: 207 Reports (General) Folder 1, DEN NARA. For a more thorough treatment of Etta Koch's reminiscences of Big Bend, see Etta Koch, Lizards at the Mantel, Burros at the Door (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999).

¹⁰ Ibid.

¹¹ Ibid.

¹² Ibid.

¹³ Ibid.

¹⁴ Ibid.

¹⁵ Ibid.

¹⁶ Ibid.

¹⁷ Maxwell, "Annual Report for Big Bend National Park, 1948," July 12, 1948, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments, and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 3, Folder: 207 Reports (General) Folder 1, DEN NARA.

¹⁸ Maxwell, "A Report of the Most Significant Events of the 1949 Fiscal Year at Big Bend National Park, Texas," n.d., RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments, and Recreational Areas, 1917-1953, Box 3, Folder: 207 Reports (General) Folder 1, DEN NARA.

¹⁹ Memorandum from the Superintendent, BIBE, to the NPS Director, "Material for Director's Annual Report," June 5, 1950, Science and Resources Management Library, BIBE.

²⁰ Maxwell, "A Report of the Most Significant Events of the 1951 Fiscal Year at Big Bend National Park, Texas," n.d., RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments, and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 3, Folder: 207 Reports (General) Folder 1, DEN NARA.

²¹ Ibid.

²² Ibid.

²² Memorandum of Maxwell to the NPS Regional Director, Santa Fe, "Request for Annual and Sick Leave," November 28, 1951, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments, and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 4, Folder: 250 Personnel, DEN NARA.

²³ Wirth to Maxwell, December 10, 1951; Tillotson to "Ross" (Maxwell), December 14, 1951, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments, and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 4, Folder: 250 Personnel, DEN NARA.

²⁴ Memorandum of Lemuel A. Garrison, Superintendent, Big Bend National Park, to the Regional NPS Director, Santa Fe, November 20, 1952, "Arrival at Big Bend," RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments, and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 4, Folder: 250 Personnel, DEN NARA; Garrison, "A Report of the Most Significant Events of the 1953 Fiscal Year at Big Bend National Park, Texas," Science and Resources Management Library, BIBE.

²⁵ Garrison, 1953 Fiscal Year Report.

²⁶ Garrison, "A Report of the Most Significant Events of the 1954 Fiscal Year at Big Bend National Park, Texas," Science and Resources Management Library, BIBE.

²⁷ Ibid.

²⁸ Ibid.

²⁹ George W. Miller, Superintendent, Big Bend National Park, "A Report on the Most Significant Events of the 1955 Fiscal Year at Big Bend National Park, Texas," Science and Resource Management Library, BIBE.

³⁰ Miller to F.W. Burton, Chairman, Organizational Committee, Texas Tourist and Development Foundation, Austin, Texas, August 30, 1956, File A 22, Texas Tourist Foundation 1956, RG79, NPS, Big Bend National Park Files; Press Release, National Park Service, November 5, 1955, "Secretary McKay to Dedicate Big Bend National Park at Special Ceremony," RG79, NPS, Box 12, File No. 079.66.0098 798993, Big Bend National Park Files, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Federal Records Center (FRC), Fort Worth, Texas.

³¹ Ibid.

³² "Address by Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay at the Dedication of Big Bend National Park, Texas," November 21, 1955, RG79, NPS, Box 12, File No. 079.66.0098 798993, Big Bend National Park Files, NARA, FRC, Fort Worth; Miller, "A Report of the Most Signficiant Events of the 1956 Fiscal Year at Big Bend National Park, Texas," Science and Resources Management Library, BIBE.

³³ Ibid.

³⁴ Ibid.

³⁵ Ibid.

³⁵ Ibid.

³⁶ Ibid.

³⁷ Miller, "1956 Fiscal Report."