GEORGE ROGERS CLARK Maintaining A Legacy An Administrative History of George Rogers Clark National Historical Park

Government Documents

Alberts, Robert C. George Rogers Clark and the Winning of the Old Northwest. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975.

A Master Plan: George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, Knox County, Indiana. National Park Service, January 1967.

Annual Reports, Superintendent, George Rogers Clark National Historical Park.

Bearss, Edwin C. George Rogers Clark Memorial, Historic Structures Report, Historical Data. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, Office of History and Historic Architecture, 1970.

Busch, Thomas P. George Rogers Clark National Historical Park: Historic Structure Report: Administrative Data Section and Architectural Data Section. Denver: Denver Service Center, U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1983.

Cockrell, Ron. A Signature of Time and Eternity: The Administrative History of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Indiana. Omaha, Nebr.: National Park Service, 1988.

Emison, Ewing. Report of the Brevoort Levee. Levee Information File, George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, April 1, 1957.

Fisher, Abby Sue. Collection Condition Survey, George Rogers Clark National Historical Park. National Park Service, 1992.

Gee, Ross, Vance Kaminiski, John Kawamoto, and Barry Mackintosh. A Preliminary Investigation of Rehabilitation Needs and Development and Expansion Possibilities. George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, April 1975.

George Rogers Clark Sesquicentennial Commission. Program of a Competition for the Selection of an Architect for Designing and Constructing in Vincennes: Indiana, a Permanent Memorial Commemorating the Winning of the Old Northwest and the Achievements of George Rogers Clark and His Associates in the War of the American Revolution; Wm. E. Parsons, Architectural Adviser [sic]. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1929.

Indiana Department of Conservation. George Rogers Clark Memorial Commission, Files of the Executive Secretary Elizabeth Miller, 1930-1940, Files of Fiscal Records, L805 023651, Indiana State Archives.

Interpretive Prospectus, George Rogers Clark National Historical Park. Midwest Regional Office Resources Management Library, ca. 1969.

James, James A., ed. George Rogers Clark Papers: 1771-1781, 1781-84. Vols. 3 and 19. Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library. Springfield, Ill.: Illinois State Historical Society, 1912, 1924.

Mackintosh, Barry. Interpretation in the National Park Service: A Historical Perspective. Washington, D. C.: Division of History, National Park Service, 1986.

______. The National Historic Preservation Act and the National Park Service: A History. Washington, D. C.: National Park Service, History Division, 1986.

______. National Park Service Administrative History: A Guide. Washington, D. C.: National Park Service, History Division, 1991.

______. The National Parks: Shaping the System. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, Division of Publications, 1985.

_______. Visitor Fees in the National Park System: A Legislative and Administrative History. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, History Division, 1983.

Maines, Rachel, Collection Management Plan, George Rogers Clark National Historical Park. Ithaca, New York: Maines and Associates (Contract No. 1443PX600092392), 1992-93.

National Park Service. Maintenance Management System, George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, 1989.

______. National Park Service Officials. Centennial Edition. Washington, D. C.: National Park Service, 1972.

______. Resources Management Plan, George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, 1993.

______. Statement for Management, George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, 1993.

______. Special Study: Master Plan, Vincennes Memorial Mall, Vincennes, Indiana. Omaha, Nebr.: Midwest Regional Office, National Park Service, 1980.

O'Bright, Jill York. There I Grew Up: A History of the Administration of Abraham Lincoln's Boyhood Home. Omaha, Nebr.: National Park Service, 1987.

Records of the George Rogers Clark Sesquicentennial Commission. National Archives, Record Group 148, Records of Minor Congressional Committees.

______. Minutes of the Meeting of the George Rogers Clark Sesquicentennial Commission Executive Committee. May 26, 1933, National Archives, Record Group 148, Records of Minor Congressional Committees.

______. Correspondence Files, Records of Minor Congressional Committees. RG 148, NA.

Simmonds, Robert V., Thomas P. Busch, Robert Whissen, Renzo Riddo, Michael Woods, Roy Kohen. Special Study Structural Analysis for George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, Indiana. Denver Service Center and Historic Preservation Division and Midwest/Rocky Mountain Team, National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior, September 1977.

Restoration and Preservation of Interpretive Murals in George Rogers Clark Memorial, George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, Vincennes, Indiana. D6215 Planning Preparation and Maintenance and Preservation of Museum Exhibits, George Rogers Clark National Historical Park. (n.d. circa 1970).

Wittpenn, Richard P., S. Sidney Bradford, and Frederick Ley. Report on George Rogers Clark Memorial, City of Vincennes, Knox County, Indiana. George Rogers Clark National Historical Park file, Midwest Regional Office, Omaha, Nebr., August 1965.

Whissen, Robert E., Renzo Riddo, Thomas Busch. Roof Investigation, Memorial Structure, George Rogers Clark National Historical Park. Denver Service Center, September 1, 1978.

Books

Albright, Horace M. as told to Robert Cahn. The Birth of the National Park Service: The Founding Years, 1913-1933. Salt Lake City: Howe Brothers Press, 1985.

Alvord, Clarence Walworth, ed. Cahokia Records, 1778-1790. Springfield, Ill.: Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library, 1907.

Bakeless, John E. Background to Glory: The Life of George Rogers Clark. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1957.

Barnhart, John D. Henry Hamilton and George Rogers Clark in the American Revolution with the Unpublished Journal of Lieut. General Henry Hamilton. Crawfordville, Ind.: K.E. Banta, 1951.

Barnhart, John D., and Dorothy L. Riker. Indiana to 1816: The Colonial Period. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau and Indiana Historical Society, 1971.

Beckwith, Hiram W., ed. Documents, Papers, Materials, and Publications Relating to the Northwest and the State of Illinois. Springfield, Ill.: H.W. Rokker Co., Printers, 1903.

Belasco, Warren J. Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1979.

Bodley, Temple. George Rogers Clark, His Life and Public Services. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1926.

Bruce, Philip A. The Virginia Plutarchs. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1929.

Burns, Lee. Life in Old Vincennes. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Publications, 1929.

Butterfield, Consul W. History of Lieutenant Colonel George Rogers Clark's Conquest of the Illinois and of the Wabash Towns from the British in 1778-1779, With Sketches of the Earlier and Later Career of the Conquerer. Columbus, Ohio: Press of F.J. Heer, 1903.

Caruso, John A. The Great Lakes Frontier: An Epic of the Old Northwest. Indianapolis: Bobs-Merrill, 1961.

Clark, George Rogers. Campaign in the Illinois in 1778-9. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Company, 1869.

______. The Capture of Old Vincennes: The Original Narratives of George Rogers Clark and of His Opponent Gov. Henry Hamilton. Milo M. Quaife, ed. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1927.

______. The Capture of Vincennes, 1779. From General Clark's Memoirs. General Series, v. 2, No. 43. Boston: Directors of the Old South Works, 1896.

______. Col. George Rogers Clark's Sketch of His Campaign in the Illinois ... And an Appendix Containing the Public and Private Instructions to Col. Clark, and Major Bowman's Journal of the Taking of Post St. Vincents. 1869. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1971.

______. The Conquest of The Illinois. Milo M. Quaife, ed. Chicago: R.R. Donnelley, 1920.

Derleth, August W. Vincennes. Portal to the West. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1968.

Dillon, John B. A History of Indiana, From Its Earliest Exploration by Europeans to the Close of the Territorial Government, in 1816. Indianapolis: Bingham & Doughty, 1859.

Dorson, Richard M., ed. America Rebels: Narratives of the Patriots. New York: Pantheon, 1953.

Downes, Randolph C. Council Fires of the Upper Ohio: A Narrative of Indian Affairs in the Upper Ohio Valley Until 1795. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1940.

Eckert, Allan W. A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh. New York: Bantam Books, 1992.

______. The Frontiersmen: A Narrative. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1967.

English, William H. Conquest of the Country Northwest of the River Ohio 1778-1783; and Life of Gen. George Rogers Clark. Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill Co., 1896.

Faragher, John Mack. Daniel Boone, The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer. New York: Holt and Company: 1992.

Foresta, Ronald A. America's National Parks and Their Keepers. Washington, D. C.: Resources for the Future, 1984.

Harrison, Lowell H. George Rogers Clark and the War in the West. Lexington, Ky.: University of Kentucky Press, 1976.

Hinsley, Curtis M. Jr. Savages and Scientists: The Smithsonian Institution and the Development of American Anthropology, 1846-1910. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981.

Holden, Robert J., ed., Selected Papers From The 1983 And 1984 George Rogers Clark Trans-Appalachian Frontier History Conferences. Vincennes, Ind.: Eastern National Park & Monument Association, 1985.

______. Selected Papers From The 1985 And 1986 George Rogers Clark Trans-Appalachian Frontier History Conferences. Vincennes, Ind.: Eastern National Park & Monument Association, 1988.

______. Selected Papers From The 1987 And 1988 George Rogers Clark Trans-Appalachian Frontier History Conferences. Vincennes, Ind.: Eastern National Park & Monument Association, 1989.

______. Selected Papers From The 1989 And 1990 George Rogers Clark Trans-Appalachian Frontier History Conferences. Vincennes, Ind.: Eastern National Park & Monument Association, 1991.

______. Selected Papers From The 1991 And 1992 George Rogers Clark Trans-Appalachian Frontier History Conferences. Vincennes, Ind.: Eastern National Park & Monument Association, 1994.

Charles B. Hosmer Jr., Presence of the Past: A History of the Preservation Movement in the United States Before Williamsburg. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1965.

______. Preservation Comes of Age: From Williamsburg to the National Trust, 1926-1949. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1981.

Hulbert, Archer B. Military Roads of the Mississippi Basin: The Conquest of the Old Northwest Cleveland: A.H. Clark Co., 1904.

Ise, John. Our National Park Policy: A Critical History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1961.

Jacobs, Wilbur R. Wilderness Politics and Indian Gifts: The Northern Colonial Frontier, 1748-1763. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1950.

Jakle, John. The Tourist in Twentieth Century America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986.

James, James A. The Life of George Rogers Clark. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1928.

Jillson, Willard R. A Bibliography of George Rogers Clark, General Commanding the Virginia Military Forces in Kentucky and the Old Northwest Territory During the American Revolution. Frankfort, Ky.: Perry Publishing Co., 1958.

Kammen, Michael G. The Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture. New York: Knopf, 1991.

Law, John. The Colonial History of Vincennes, Under the French, British, and American Governments, From Its First Settlement Down to the Territorial Administration of General William Henry Harrison. Vincennes, Ind.: Harvey, Mason, 1858.

Leuchrenberg, William E. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. New York: Harper and Row, 1963.

______. The New Deal: A Documentary History. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1968.

McConnell, Stuart. Glorious Contentment: The Grand Army of the Republic, 1865-1900. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

Nolan, Jeannette Covert. George Rogers Clark, Soldier and Hero. New York: J. Messner: 1954.

Ogg, Frederick Austin. The Old Northwest: A Chronicle of the Ohio Valley and Beyond. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919.

Palmer, Frederick. Clark of the Ohio; A Life of George Rogers Clark. New York: Dodd, Mead: 1929.

Pease, Theodore C., and Marguerite J. Pease. George Rogers Clark and the Revolution in Illinois, 1763-1787. Springfield, Ill.: Illinois State Historical Library, 1929.

Proceedings of an Indiana American Revolution Bicentennial Symposium. The French, the Indians, and George Rogers Clark in the Illinois Country (Held at Vincennes University, Vincennes, Ind., May 14-15, 1976). Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1977.

Rothman, Hal. Bandelier National Monument: An Administrative History. Santa Fe: National Park Service, 1988. Southwest Cultural Resources Center Professional Papers #14.

______. Preserving Different Pasts: The American National Monuments. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.

Runte, Alfred. National Parks: The American Experience. 2d ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987.

Rydell, Robert. All the World's A Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.

Schuyler, Robert L. The Transition in Illinois from British to American Government. New York: Columbia University Press, 1909.

Sosin, Jack M. The Revolutionary Frontier, 1763-1783. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976.

Thornbrough, Gayle, ed. Outpost on the Wabash, 1787-1791. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1957.

Thwaites, Ruben Gold, and Louise Phelps Kellogg. Frontier Defense on the Upper Ohio, 1777-1778. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society, 1912.

______. The Revolution on the Upper Ohio, 1775-1777. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society, 1908.

Van Every, Dale. A Company of Heroes: The American Frontier, 1775-1783. New York: William Morrow Co., 1962.

______. Forth to the Wilderness: The First American Frontier, 1754-1774. New York: William Morrow Co., 1961.

Walker, Fintan G. The Catholic Church in the Meeting of Two Frontiers: The Southern Illinois Country (1763-1793). Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America, 1935.

Waller, George M. American Revolution in the West. Chicago: Nelson Hall Inc., 1976.

White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Wilson, George R., and Gayle Thornbrough. The Buffalo Trace. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1946.

Articles and Journals

Angle, Paul M. "George Rogers Clark: Illinois and the Revolution." Chicago History 4 (1975): 4-13.

Alvord, Clarence W. "The Oath of Vincennes." Illinois State Historical Society Transactions, (1908): 270-276.

______, ed. "Father Pierre Gibault and the Submission of Post Vincennes, 1778." American Historical Review 14 (April 1909): 544-557.

Barnhart, John D. "A New Evaluation of Henry Hamilton and George Rogers Clark." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 37 (1951): 643-652.

Brockman, C. Frank. "Park Naturalists and the Evolution of National Park Service Interpretation Through World War II." Journal of Forest History 22 1 (January 1978): 23-43.

Bodley, Temple. "George Rogers Clark and Historians." Illinois State Historical Society Transactions 1935: 73-109.

______. "The National Significance of George Rogers Clark." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 11 (September 1924): 165-189.

Boyd, Carl E. "The Country of Illinois." American Historical Review 4 (July 1899): 623-635.

Clark, George Rogers and Fernando de Lebya. "Clark-Lebya Papers." American Historical Review 41 (October 1935): 92-112.

English, Sara J. "George Rogers Clark." Illinois State Historical Society Journal 20 (January 1928): 523-546.

Farrand, Max. "The Indian Boundary Line." American Historical Review 10 (July 1905): 782-791.

Harrison, Lowell H. "George Rogers Clark and the Conquest of Illinois." American History Illustrated 11(10) (1975): 4-7, 44-48.

Helderman, Leonard C. "Danger on the Wabash: Vincennes Letters of 1786." Indiana Magazine of History 34 (December 1938): 455-467.

James, James A. "An Appraisal of the Contributions of George Rogers Clark to the History of the West." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 17 (1930): 98-115.

______. "George Rogers Clark and Detroit, 1780-1781." Mississippi Valley Historical Review Proceedings 3(1909-1910): 291-317.

______. "George Rogers Clark — Civilian." Proceedings, Indiana History Conference, Indianapolis (1929): 60-76.

______. "Some Phases of the History of the Northwest, 1783-1786." Mississippi Valley Historical Review Proceedings 7 (1913/1914): 168-195.

______. "Some Problems of the Northwest in 1779." In Essays in American History, dedicated to Frederick Jackson Turner. New York: H. Holt, 1910: 57-83.

______. "The Northwest: Gift or Conquest?" Indiana Magazine of History 30 (1934): 1-15.

______. "To What Extent was George Rogers Clark in Military Control of the Northwest at the Close of the American Revolution?" American Historical Association Annual Report 1 (1917): 313-329.

______. "The Recognition of George Rogers Clark." Indiana Magazine of History 25 (March 1929): 40-46.

Kenny, Lawrence J. "George Rogers Clark in Ohio." Illinois Catholic Historical Review 10 (January 1928): 248-260.

Ketchum, Richard M. "Men of the Revolution VI — George Rogers Clark." American Heritage 25 (1) (1973): 32-33, 78.

Lambert, Joseph I. "Clark's Conquest of the Northwest." Indiana Magazine of History 36 (1940): 337-354.

Law, John. "The Capture of Vincennes." Virginia Historical Register and Literary Companion 6 (April 1853): 61-77.

Mahon, John K. "Anglo-American Methods of Indian Warfare, 1676-1794" Mississippi Valley Historical Review 45 (2) (1958): 254-275.

Pease, Theodore C. "1780 — The Revolution at Crisis in the West." Illinois State Historical Society 23 (1931): 644-681.

Randall, Emilius O. "Clark's Conquest of the Northwest." Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly 12 (January 1903): 67-94.

Rothman, Hal K. "The End of Federal Hegemony: The Wilderness Act and Federal Land Management on the Pajarito Plateau, 1955-1980." Environmental History Review 16 2 (Summer 1992): 39-61.

______. "Historian v. Historian: Interpreting History in the Courtroom." The Public Historian 15 2 (Spring 1993): 39-53.

Starkey, Daniel B. "George Rogers Clark and His Illinois Campaign." Printed for the Parkman Club by E. Keogh. (Parkman Club publications, No. 12) (1897): 25-62.

Sutton, Robert M. "George Rogers Clark and the Campaign in the West: The Five Major Documents." Indiana Magazine of History 76 (1980): 334-345.

Swain, Donald. "Harold Ickes, Horace Albright and the Hundred Days: A Study in Conservation Administration." Pacific Historical Review 34 (November 1965): 455-65.

Talbert, Charles G. "Kentucky Invades Ohio." Kentucky Historical Society Register 53 (October 1955): 288-297.

Thompson, Joseph J. "A Chapter in Illinois' Finances." Illinois Catholic Historical Review 2 (July 1919): 74-81.

______. "Penalties of Patriotism: An Appreciation of the Life, Patriotism and Services of Francis Vigo, Pierre Gibault, George Rogers Clark and Arthur St. Clair, 'The Founders of the Northwest.'" Illinois State Historical Society Journal 9 (January 1917): 401-449.

Turner, Frederick J., comp. "George Rogers Clark and the Kaskaskia Campaign, 1777-1778." American Historical Review 8 (April 1903): 491-506.

Utley, Robert M. "Toward a New Preservation Ethic." NPS Newsletter 19 8 (October 15, 1974).

Waller, George M. "George Rogers Clark and the American Revolution in the West." Indiana Magazine of History 72 (1976): 1-20.

Woolard, F.M. "Route of Colonel George Rogers Clark and His Army from Kaskaskia to Vincennes, 1779." Illinois State Historical Society Transactions 1907; Springfield 1908 (Illinois State Historical Library. Publication, no. 12): 48-63.

Newspapers

Evansville Sunday Courier and Press
Indianapolis Star
Vincennes Commercial
Vincennes Post
Vincennes Shopper
Vincennes Sun
Vincennes Sun-Commercial
Valley Advance

Unpublished Sources

Clary, David A. "Memoir of a Dogfight: The George Rogers Clark Visitor Center Affray. Twenty Years Later." May 31, 1994.

Jones, Christina Petlichkoff. "The Cultural Landscape Report for George Rogers Clark National Historical Park." Unpublished MA thesis, Ball State University, 1994.

Krishna Engineering Consultants, Inc. "Contract Documents and Specifications for Asbestos Abatement, George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, Vincennes, Indiana" 1990.

Patrick Engineering, Inc. "George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, Preservation and Repair of the Flood Wall (HS-05) Title I Phase I 100 Percent Document Report." December 1989.

Oral Interviews

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