Indiana Dunes Administrative History

1. "Miss McCauley's Column," circa 1918 newsclipping (no publisher) from the Catherine A. Mitchell Papers, Chicago Committee Vice President, National Dunes Park Association, S2112, Subject—State Parks, Dunes, 1917-1919, Indiana State Library.

2. A. Berle Clemensen, Historic Resource Study, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Indiana (Denver: Denver Service Center, National Park Service, 1979), pp. 1-4, 14-15, 18, 20.

3. "The Prairie Club and the Indiana Dunes," a speech by Herbert Read to the Duneland Historical Society, 19 February 1987, Chesterton, Indiana, transcript from the personal papers of Herbert Read

4. Ibid., pp. 26-7

5. Ibid., p. 22.

6. Carter H. Manny, "Hoosier Slide: The Greatest Mountain of Sand Which Existed in the Indiana Dune Area Along Lake Michigan," manuscript, n.d., Carter H. Manny Papers, 1890-1920, folder S926, Indiana State Library, Indiana Division.

7. George S. Cottman, Indiana Dunes State Park: A History and Description, Publication Number 97 (Indianapolis: State of Indiana, Department of Conservation, Division of Lands and Waters, 1930), p. 35, Lakeshore curator's files—Indiana Dunes State Park.

8. J. Ronald Engel, Sacred Sands: The Struggle for Community in the Indiana Dunes (Middletown, Ct., Wesleyan University Press, 1983), pp. 45-6, 80; Powell Moore, "Tales of the Indiana Dunes," The Calumet Region: Indiana's Last Frontier, reprinted (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1977), p. 597; and Sylvia Troy, "Citizen Action for Preservation," The Indiana Dunes Story: How Nature and People Made a Park (Beverly Shores, Indiana: Shirley Heinze Environmental Fund, 1984), p. 32.

9. Engel, Sacred Sands, p. 81; Moore, "Tales of the Indiana Dunes," pp. 597-8; and Clemensen, Historic Resource Study, p. 23.

10. Stephen T. Mather, Report on the Proposed Sand Dunes National Park Indiana, U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1917), p. 5, Lakeshore curator's files—#2639.

11. Ibid., p. 43.

12. Horace M. Albright to Earl Reed, letter, 27 November 1957, transmitting copy of the Mather hearings report, Lakeshore curator's files—#2639.

13. Mather, Report on the Proposed Sand Dunes National Park Indiana, pp. 11-12, 14.

14. Ibid., p. 9.

15. Ibid., pp. 10-11.

16. Moore, "Tales of the Indiana Dunes," p. 598.

17. Engel, Sacred Sands, pp. 18-19.

18. Thomas Wood Stevens, Book of the Historical Pageant of The Dunes, Port Chester, Indiana, on Lake Michigan: May 30 and June 3, 1917 (Chicago: The Dunes Pageant Association, 1917), pp. 1-3, Lakeshore curator's files No. 2588; and Moore, "Tales of the Indiana Dunes," p. 599.

19. Engel, Sacred Sands, pp. 19-20.

20. Mrs. Catherine A. Mitchell to members of the National Dunes Park Association, form letter, 4 January 1918, Mitchell Papers, S2112, Subject—State Parks, Dunes, 1917-1919, S2112, Indiana State Library, Indiana Division.

21. Ibid., "Miss McCauley's Column," newspaper clipping, n.d. [circa 1918].

22. Richard Lieber to James P. Goodrich, Governor, State of Indiana, letter, 19 May 1937, Lieber Papers, L91 General Correspondence 1937, Box XIV, Folder 1, Indiana State Library, Indiana Division.

23. Chicago Committee of the National Dunes Park Association, 15 May 1919, meeting, by Secretary pro tempore Catherine A. Mitchell, Mitchell Papers, S2112, Subject—State Parks, Dunes, 1917-1919, S2112, Indiana State Library, Indiana Division.

24. Engel, Sacred Sands, p. 247.

25. Orpheus Moyer Schantz, "Indiana's Unrivaled Sand—Dunes A National Park Opportunity," Reprinted by Special Permission from the National Geographic Magazine, May 1919 (Gary: National Dunes Park Association, 1919), Lakeshore curator's files.

26. General Federation of Woman's Clubs, Announcement, "Save the Dunes," Catherine A. Mitchell Papers, S2112, Subject—State Parks, Dunes, 1917-1919, Indiana State Library, Indiana Division.

27. Engel, Sacred Sands, pp. 249-50.

28. Kay Franklin and Norma Schaeffer, Duel for the Dunes: Land Use Conflict on the Shores of Lake Michigan (Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1983), p. 36.

29. Engel, Sacred Sands, pp. 249-50.

30. Cottman, Indiana Dunes State Park, p. 37; and "Richard Lieber Biographical Study," [no author], manuscript excerpt of Master's thesis, pp. 257-260, Lakeshore curator's files—State Park.

31. Engel, Sacred Sands, p. 251.

32. Bess M. Sheehan to Catherine A. Mitchell, letter, 23 March 1923, Mitchell Papers, S2112, Subject—State Parks, Dunes, 1917-1919, S2112, Indiana State Library, Indiana Division.

33. Richard Lieber to James P. Goodrich, Governor, State of Indiana, letter, 19 May 1937, Lieber Papers, L91 General Correspondence 1937, Box XIV, Folder 1, Indiana State Library, Indiana Division; Moore, "Tales of the Indiana Dunes," pp. 600, 606-7; Clemensen, Historic Resource Study, p. 28; and Engel, Sacred Sands, p. 252-3.

34. Sylvia Troy, "Citizen Action for Preservation," p. 33; and Engel, Sacred Sands, p. 253.

35. Bess Sheehan to Richard Lieber, letter, 5 September 1929, Lieber Papers, L90 Director's Correspondence 1919-1933, Indiana State Library, Indiana Division.

36. Cottman, Indiana Dunes State Park, pp. 19, 28, 39-40.

37. "The Prairie Club and the Indiana Dunes," a speech by Herbert Read to the Duneland Historical Society, 19 February 1987, Chesterton, Indiana, transcript from the personal papers of Herbert Read.

38. Richard Lieber to Mrs. McCormick, letter, 24 March 19(1923, Lieber Papers, L90 General Correspondence, folder—January-June 1923, Indiana State Library, Indiana Division.