Big Bend Administrative History

¹ Memorandum of Townsend, "State Legislation Needed For The Acquistion Of The Territory To Be Embraced Within The Proposed Big Bend National Park," January 13, 1935, Townsend Collection, Box 8, Wallet 23, Folder 24, Archives of the Big Bend, SRSU.

² Ibid.

³ Memorandum of Townsend (?), "Big Bend National Park Project: A Classification and Study on Land Values," n.d. (1936?), Townsend Collection, Box 8, Wallet 23, Folder 4, Archives of the Big Bend, SRSU.

⁴ Memorandum of Townsend (?), "Big Bend National Park Project: Land Data," n.d. (1936?), Townsend Collection, Box 8, Wallet 23, Folder 4; Higgins to Townsend, July 29, 1935, Townsend Collection, Box 8, Wallet 23, Folder 20; Memorandum of Townsend (?), "Partial list of Tax Delinquents In Big Bend Park Area," January 18, 1936, Townsend Collection, Box 8, Wallet 23, Folder 25, Archives of the Big Bend, SRSU.

⁵ Maier to Wirth, March 9, 1936, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments, and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 94, Folder: 4th Progress Report on Big Bend - Region III, DEN NARA.

⁶ Telegram of George Grant, Fort Bliss, TX, to Maier, March 7, 1936; Maier to Wirth, March 8, 1936; Maier to Grant, March 9, 1936; Grant to Maier, March 11, 1936, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments, and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 94, Folder: 4th Progress Report on Big Bend - Region III, DEN NARA.

⁷ Maier to Townsend, March 10, 1936, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments, and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 94, Folder: 4th Progress Report on Big Bend - Region III; Memorandum of Maier to National Park Service, Washington, DC, March 28, 1936, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to CCC, EDW and ERA Work in National Forests, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1933-1934, Big Bend National Park, TX/Bryce Canyon National Monument, UT, Box 97, Folder: 833-10 (CCC) Botanical Exhibits, DEN NARA.

⁸ Townsend to Col. R.O. Whiteaker, Chief Engineer, Texas State Parks Board, Austin, March 31, 1936, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments, and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 94, Folder: 4th Progress Report on Big Bend - Region III, DEN NARA.

⁹ J.W. Gilmer, Big Bend Abstract Co, Inc., Alpine, TX, to Maier, May 18, 1936; Alonzo Wasson, "Chance of Big Bend Park Being National Domain Is Dwindling," The Dallas Morning News, May 18, 1936, RG 79, NPS SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments, and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 94, Folder: General April 1, 1936-July 30, 1936, DEN NARA.

¹⁰ Wasson, "Chance of Big Bend Park," Dallas Morning News, May 18, 1936.

¹¹ Morelock to Maier, May 21, 1936, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments, and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 94, Folder: General April 1, 1936-July 30, 1936, DEN NARA.

¹² Townsend to Maier, May 22, 1936, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments, and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 94, Folder: General April 1, 1936-July 30, 1936, DEN NARA.

¹³ Morelock to Lewis B. Cooper, Director, Research Department, State Teachers Association, Fort Worth, TX, May 25, 1936, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments, and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 94, Folder: General April 1, 1936-July 30, 1936, DEN NARA.

¹⁴ Maier to Morelock, June 13, 1936, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments, and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 94, Folder: General April 1, 1936-July 30, 1936, DEN NARA.

¹⁵ Townsend to Maier, June 14, 1936; Morelock to L.A. Woods, Superintendent, State Department of Education, Austin, TX, June 23, 1936, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments, and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 94, Folder: General April 1, 1936-July 30, 1936, DEN NARA.

¹⁶ Maier to the NPS Director, Washington, DC, Attn: Mr. Moskey, July 1, 1936, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments, and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 94, Folder: General April 1, 1936-July 30, 1936, DEN NARA.

¹⁷ Maier to Wirth, July 3, 1936; Maier to the NPS Director, Attn: Mr. Fred Johnston, July 3, 1936, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments, and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 94, Folder: General April 1, 1936-July 30, 1936, DEN NARA.

¹⁸ Morelock to M.S. Leopold, Supervising Engineer, Motion Picture Production Section, Information Division, Department of the Interior, Washington, DC, August 1, 1936, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to CCC, ECW, and ERA Work in National Parks, Forests and Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1933-1934, Box 96, Folder: General Part 2, DEN NARA.

¹⁹ Towsend to Maier, August 9, 1936; "Remarks Made By E.E. Townsend, On Showing The Big Bend Movie To The Lion's Club, Alpine, Texas, August 11, 1936," RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to CCC, ECW, and ERA Work in National Parks, Forests and Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1933-1934, Box 96, Folder: General Part 2, DEN NARA.

²⁰ Maier to Ellsworth C. Dent, Division of Motion Pictures, Office of the Secretary, Department of the Interior, Washington, DC, August 18, 1936, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Correspondence Relating to CCC, ECW, and ERA Work in National Parks, Forests and Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1933-1934, Box 96, Folder: General Part 2, DEN NARA.

²¹ Maier to Fanning Hearon, Division of Motion Pictures, Office of the Secretary, Department of the Interior, Washington, DC, August 29, 1936, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to CCC, ECW, and ERA Work in National Parks, Forests and Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1933-1934, Box 96, Folder: General Part 2, DEN NARA.

²² Ibid.; Hearon to Maier, September 10, October 6, 1936, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to CCC, ECW, and ERA Work in National Parks, Forests and Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1933-1934, Box 96, Folder: General Part 2, DEN NARA.

²³ Townsend to Maier, September 11, 21, 1936; Maier to Townsend, September 26, October 8, 1936, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to CCC, ECW, and ERA Work in National Parks, Forests and Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1933-1934, Box 96, Folder: General Part 2, DEN NARA.

²⁴ Maier to Wirth, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments, and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 22, Folder: 800 Protection Services to Public #2, DEN NARA.

²⁵ Ibid.

²⁶ Maier to Cammerer, November 16, 1936, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to CCC, ECW, and ERA Work in National Parks, Forests and Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1933-1934, Box 96, Folder: General Part 2, DEN NARA.

²⁷Memorandum of William R. Hogan, Associate Historian, NPS, Oklahoma City, to Maier, "Employment of Historical Consultant for Big Bend Area," October 12, 1936, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to CCC, ECW, and ERA Work in National Parks, Forests and Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1933-1934, Box 96, Folder: General Part 2, DEN NARA.

²⁸ Ibid. For a more thorough assessement of the forces shaping the Historic Sites Act of 1935, see Michael Kammen, Mystic Chords of Memory, 460-71.

²⁹ Maier to Branch Spalding, Acting Assistant Director, NPS, Washington, DC, October 14, 1936; Spalding to Maier, November 5, 1936, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments, and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box x, Folder: xx; Maier to Hogan, November 27, 1936, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to CCC, ECW, and ERA Work in National Parks, Forests and Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1933-1934, Box 96, Folder: General Part 2, DEN NARA.

³⁰ Maier to Hearon, December 1, 1936, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to CCC, ECW, and ERA Work in National Parks, Forests and Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1933-1934, Box 95, Folder: DSP 1, DEN NARA.

³¹ R.D. Morgan, Superintendent, SP-33-T, NPS, Marathon, TX, to Mr. (William) Lawson, November 17, 1936, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to CCC, ECW, and ERA Work in National Parks, Forests and Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1933-1934, Box 96, Folder: General Part 2; Maier to William J. Lawson, December 2, 1936, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to CCC, ECW, and ERA Work in National Parks, Forests and Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1933-1934, Box 95, Folder: General Part 3, DEN NARA.

³² Ibid.

³³ Ibid.

³⁴ R.D. Morgan to Maier, November 24, 1936, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to CCC, ECW, and ERA Work in National Parks, Forests and Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1933-1934, Box 96, Folder: General Part 2, DEN NARA.

³⁵ Memorandum of Leo A. McClatchy, Associate Recreational Planner, NPS, Oklahoma City, to Maier, "Big Bend National Park," December 7, 1936, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to CCC, ECW, and ERA Work in National Parks, Forests and Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1933-1934, Box 95, Folder: General Part 3, DEN NARA.

³⁶ "1,200,000 Acres of Peace Proposed on U.S. Border," San Francisco News, December 23, 1936; Townsend to Maier, December 28, 1936, RG 79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to CCC, ECW, and ERA Work in National Parks, Forests and Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1933-1934, Box 95, Folder: General Part 3, DEN NARA.

³⁷ "The Big Bend National Park: A State Asset," n.d. (December 1936?), Townsend Collection, Box 9, Wallet 27, Folder 2, Archives of the Big Bend, SRSU.

³⁸ Ibid.