Big Bend Administrative History

¹ Joe M. Graham, Center, TX, to Townsend, January 17, 1938, Townsend Collection, Folder 4, Archives of the Big Bend, SRSU.

² Townsend to William J. Lawson, February 9, 1938; Will Mann Richardson, Chief Clerk, Texas State Parks Board, Austin, to Townsend, February 11, 1938, Townsend Collection, Folder 4, Archives of the Big Bend, SRSU.

³ Glenn Burgess, President, Highway 51 Association, Littlefield, TX, to Maier, January 18, 1938; Townsend to Maier, January 15, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 1, Folder: 0-1 (NPS) Conferences Big Bend, DEN NARA.

⁴"Boosters Pledge Aid To Big Bend Project," Fort Worth Star Telegram, February 4, 1938.

⁵ "U.S. Aid For Big Bend Forecast," Fort Worth Star Telegram, February 4, 1938.

⁶ Webb to Maier, February 3, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box x, Folder: xx, DEN NARA.

⁷ Townsend to Maier, February 5, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 9, Folder: 503 (NPS) Pictures (General) [Folder 2], DEN NARA.

⁸ "Big Bend Park," Fort Worth Star Telegram, January 14, 1938.

⁹ Wirth to the Acting Regional Director, Region III, NPS, Santa Fe, February 8, 1938; Maier to the NPS Director, ATTN: Conrad Wirth, February 19, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 7, Folder: 501 Publicity, DEN NARA.

¹⁰ Maxwell to Acting Regional Director, Region III, NPS, Santa Fe, ATTN: Mr. Maier, February 7, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 22, Folder: 867 Tours (General), DEN NARA; Maier to Maxwell, February 10, 1938, NPS BIBE-NS 14 File, Southwest Support Office Library, Santa Fe (cited as SSO Library).

¹¹ Maier to Maxwell, February 10, 1938.

¹² "Geographers to Visit Big Bend," The Texas Weekly, February 12, 1938, 504 Publications (General?), RG79, NPS, CCF 1933-1949, Big Bend National Park 501-04 - 504.04-2 Files, Box 831, DC NARA II.

¹³ "‘Dreams Come True,'" El Paso Times, February 27, 1938; Morelock to Maier, March 14, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 11, Folder: 610.01 Purchasing of Lands #1 Big Bend; Morelock to Maier, February 19, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 22, Folder: 833 Exhibits, DEN NARA.

¹⁴Maier to (Elmo) Johnson, c/o Johnson's Ranch, Castolon, TX, February 19, 1938; Johnson to Maier, February 28, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 7, Folder: 501 Publicity, DEN NARA.

¹⁵ Townsend to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, February 22, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 11, Folder: 610.01 Purchasing of Lands #1 Big Bend, DEN NARA. M.A. LeHand, private secretary to FDR, sent Townsend a note of thanks for his letter, stating: "I can assure you that he [FDR] will appreciate your interest in writing and will wish me to thank you for your kindness in giving him an opportunity to see those interesting photographs." (M.A. LeHand, Private Secretary, The White House, Washington, DC, to Townsend, March 3, 1938, Townsend Collection, Folder 4, Archives of the Big Bend, SRSU.)

¹⁶ Cammerer to Townsend, March 18, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927, 1953, Box 11, Folder: 610.01 Purchasing of Lands #1 Big Bend, DEN NARA.

¹⁷ Morelock to Record, March 10, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 11, Folder: 610.01 Purchasing of Lands #1 Big Bend, DEN NARA.

¹⁸ Morelock to Amon G. Carter, March 10, 1938; Morelock to Maier, March 10, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 11, Folder: 610.01 Purchasing of Lands #1 Big Bend, DEN NARA.

¹⁹ Daniel F. Galicia to Townsend, May 18, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 17, Folder: 632 (CCC) Roads Outside of Parks, DEN NARA; "Big Bend Park Committee to Launch Survey," Dallas News, April 5, 1938.

²⁰ "Picture Trippers Are Back From Trek Into Scenic Del Carmens," Alpine Avalanche, April 15, 1938.

²¹ Earl Moore, Dallas, TX, to Townsend, April 23, 1938; Townsend to Moore, April 24, 1938, Townsend Collection, Folder 4, Archives of the Big Bend, SRSU.

²² Maier, "The Big Bend National Park Project Address," Texas State Planning Conference, March 22, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 8, Folder: 501.04 (NPS) Special Articles, DEN NARA.

²³ Ibid.

²⁴ Ibid.

²⁵ Ibid.

²⁶ Maier to Morelock, March 30, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 11, Folder: 610.01 Purchasing of Lands #1 Big Bend, DEN NARA.

²⁷ Ibid.

²⁸ Ibid.

²⁹ "Luncheon Is D.A.R. Social," Wichita Falls (TX) Times, April 5, 1938; Alpheus Harral, "Terlingua, Largest City in Big Bend Park, Busy Place," Fort Worth Star Telegram, April 10, 1938.

³⁰ "Development of the Big Bend Country Is Aim of West Texas Group," Texas Hotel Review, May 1938: 23, Townsend Collection, Box 9, Wallet 24, Folder 4, Archives of the Big Bend, SRSU.

³¹ Maier to the NPS Director, May 28, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 11, Folder: 610.01 Purchasing of Lands #1 Big Bend, DEN NARA. For more information on Jesse Jones, see Gerald D. Nash, The West in World War II: Reshaping the Economy (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990), 9-10.

³² Ibid.

³³ Ibid.

³⁴ Memorandum of Maier to McClatchy, May 30, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 7, Folder: 501 Publicity, DEN NARA.

³⁵ Townsend to Maier, July 3, 1938; Maier to Townsend, July 8, 1938; Memorandum of Cammerer to "Mr. Maier and the Files," July 11, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 11, Folder: 610.01 Purchasing of Lands #1 Big Bend, DEN NARA.

³⁶ Townsend to W. Lee O'Daniels, Governor Elect, Fort Worth, TX, August 9, 1938, Townsend Collection, Folder 4, Archives of the Big Bend, SRSU.

³⁷ Ibid.

³⁸ "Sec. Ickes Urges Establishment of National Park in Texas' Big Bend," Fort Worth Star Telegram, October 11, 1938.

³⁹ "Mr. Ickes and Big Bend," Fort Worth Star Telegram, October 17, 1938.

⁴⁰ Maier to the NPS Director, October 12, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 11, Folder: 610.01 Purchasing of Lands #1 Big Bend, DEN NARA.

⁴¹ Carr P. Collins, Fidelity Union Life Insurance Company, Dallas, TX, to Morelock, October 26, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 3, Folder: 204-10 By Field Officers Folder 2, DEN NARA.

⁴² Morelock to Record, November 12, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 11, Folder: 610.01 Purchasing of Lands #1 Big Bend, DEN NARA.

⁴³ Morelock to Maier, November 16, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 11, Folder: 610.01 Purchasing of Lands #1 Big Bend, DEN NARA.

⁴⁴ Townsend to Maier, November 21, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 3, Folder: 201 Administration (General) Big Bend, DEN NARA.

⁴⁵ Maier to the NPS Director, November 22, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 3, Folder: 204-10 By Field Officers Folder 2, DEN NARA.

⁴⁶ Maier to the NPS Director, November 22, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 3, Folder: 204-10 By Field Officers Folder 2, DEN NARA.

⁴⁷ "Big Bend Called One of Last Park Chain Links," Fort Worth Star Telegram, November 22, 1938.

⁴⁸ Memorandum of Wirth to the Acting Regional Director, Region III, NPS, Santa Fe, December 6, 1938; Maier to Robert Hicks, Fort Worth Star Telegram, Fort Worth, TX, December 10, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 9, Folder: 504 (NPS) Publications (General) [Folder 2], DEN NARA.

⁴⁹ Memorandum of Maier for the NPS Director, December 12, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 9, Folder: 504 (NPS) Publications (General) [Folder 2], DEN NARA.

⁵⁰ Morelock to Carter, November 29, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 11, Folder: 610.01 Purchasing of Land #1 Big Bend; Maier to Morelock, December 6, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 2, Folder: 120-07 (NPS) Proposed Legislation Big Bend, DEN NARA; Judith K. Fabry, Guadalupe Mountains National Park: An Administrative History (Santa Fe, NM: National Park Service, 1988), 17-23.

⁵¹ Demaray to W. Lee O'Daniel, December 9, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 11, Folder: 610.01 Purchasing of Lands #1 Big Bend, DEN NARA.

⁵² Carter to Senator H.L. Winfield, Fort Stockton, TX, December 20, 1938, RG79, NPS, SWRO, Santa Fe, Correspondence Relating to National Parks, Monuments and Recreational Areas, 1927-1953, Box 2, Folder: 120-07 (NPS) Proposed Legislation Big Bend, DEN NARA.