Denali Historic Resource Study

1. Building-stone and limestone claim files, National Archives San Bruno, Record Group 79, Box 78.

2. Reg. Dir., Region 4, ltr to L. Puckett (BLM) of 7/27/51, National Archives San Bruno, Record Group 79, Box 79.

3. Drury memo to Secretary of Interior of 2/7/49, National Archives San Bruno, Record Group 79, Box 79.

4. Reg. Dir., Region 4 memo to Director of 2/19/53, National Archives San Bruno, Record Group 79, Box 79; Federal Register, 6/28/58, 4811.

5. Director memo to Asst. Secretary of Interior of 11/26/48, National Archives San Bruno, Record Group 79, Box 79; Kauffmann, "History of Boundaries," 37-38.

6. Kantishna Withdrawal File, Denali NP&P archive.

7. Kauffmann, "History of the Boundaries," 33.

8. Ibid., 27 et seq.

9. Theodore Swem, "National Park Service Interest in Alaska" (1972), 7-page typescript narrative and bibliography in Denali NP&P archive.

10. Sigurd F. Olson, "Report on Alaska," (1954), excerpt in Denali NP&P archive.

11. Pioneers of Alaska, Igloo No. 4, ltr to Sec. Stewart Udall of 9/20/65, Alaska Regional Office Gen. Files (L1417), to be permanently stored in historical files, National Archives Anchorage.

12. Roderick Nash, "Tourism, Parks and the Wilderness Idea in the History of Alaska," Alaska in Perspective, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1981), 18.

13. Celia M. Hunter and Ginny Hill Wood ltr to Ross Youngblood (BLM) of 9/27/65, Alaska Regional Office General Files (L1417).

14. See, e.g., "Mount McKinley National Park Study" of August 1966, and special report to Secretary by Asst. Secretary Stanley A. Cain on Advisory Board trip to Alaska, 1965, in Denali NP&P archive.

15. G. Frank Williss, "Do Things Right the First Time": The National Park Service and the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980 (Denver: National Park Service, 1985), 34-41; George B. Hartzog, Battling for the National Parks (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell, Ltd., 1988), 205-06.

16. Williss, "Do Things Right" 56-58.

17. From a vast array of "d-2" literature, the author chooses the following core references for further reading: G. Frank Williss' administrative history of the Park Service part in the struggle, previously cited; Celia Hunter et al "Alaska National Interest Lands," Alaska Geographic, Vol. 8, No. 4 (1981); Federal-State Land Use Planning Commission for Alaska, "The D-2 Book," Lands of National Interest in Alaska (Anchorage: 1977); Robert Arnold, et al, Alaska Native Land Claims (Anchorage: Alaska Native Foundation, 1976); Robert B. Weeden, Alaska, Promises to Keep (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1978); Robert Cahn, The Fight to Save Wild Alaska (Audubon special issue, 1982).