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ENDNOTES
PART I: THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SCOTTS BLUFF NATIONAL MONUMENT
Location and Description
1Scotts Bluff National Monument, Resource Management Plan (Omaha: NPS, Midwest Regional Office, 1981), p. 2.
Significance of the Resource
2Ron Cockrell, An Interview with Historian Merrill J. Mattes on Scotts Bluff, Agate Fossil Beds, Grand Portage National Monuments and Other Areas (Omaha: NPS, Midwest Regional Office, 1983), p. 12. [Hereinafter cited as Cockrell, An Interview with Historian Merrill J. Mattes.]
6National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form, Scotts Bluff National Monument; and, Earl R. Harris, A History of Scotts Bluff National Monument, Nebraska (NPS, 1960), pp. 1-14; 86. (Hereinafter cited as Harris, A History of Scotts Bluff). The reader should note that the administrative history being cited was approved by the Midwest Regional Office in 1960, and is not the OTMA-published edition of 1962.
7Master Plan, Scotts Bluff National Monument, Nebraska (NPS, 1976), pp. 1-2. In the late 1970s, this master plan was reclassified to a "resource document."
Summary of the 1960 Administrative History
8Harris, A History of Scotts Bluff, p. 17.
9Cockrell, An Interview with Historian Merrill J. Mattes, p. 9.
15The information for this section, while supplemented by the Mattes interview, can be found in passim from Harris' administrative history.
16John Henneberger to Ron Cockrell, letter, December 4, 1983, South Suburban, Illinois.
PART II: OPERATING THE NATIONAL MONUMENT THE PHYSICAL PLANT: VISITORS CENTER, OREGON TRAIL MUSEUM, AND TRAILS
1Building Inventory, File-Development and Maintenance, Folder-D3423 Individual Building Data File, Superintendent's Office, Scotts Bluff National Monument. (Hereinafter cited as SCBL Superintendent).
2Ervin H. Zube, Joseph H. Crystal, and James F. Palmer, Visitor Center Design Evaluation (DSC: NPS, 1976), p. 102.
3Hendrix to Beal, memo, January 15, 1975, File-Development and Maintenance, Folder-D18 Planning Program and Master Plans through 1975-Closed, SCBL Superintendent.
4Ibid., Beal to Hendrix, memo, February 21, 1975. (See also Superintendent Don Harper to Beal, memo, January 28, 1975).
5Marc Sagan, HFC Manager, to Beal, memo, May 27, 1976, File-Development and Maintenance, Folder-D18 Statement for Management, Planning Program and Master Plan, SCBL Superintendent.
6Regional Museum Curator Newell F. Joyner to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Trip Report, May 20, 1963, File-Administration, Folder-A5427 Inspections—Field Offices, SCBL Superintendent.
7Superintendent Burns to Beaumont Newhall, memo, April 14, 1980, File-Administration, Folder-Chronological File, Interpretation and Resource Management Division Starting 11-29-79, SCBL Superintendent.
8Ibid., Detail of Annual Operating Requirements Form, March 10, 1980.
9Chief, I&RM to files, March 3, 1980, I&RM Division 1979 report to Superintendent for Annual Report, File-Administration, Folder-Annual Report (Superintendent's) 1936- , SCBL Superintendent.
10Museums Coordinator Nan V. Carson to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Trip Report, October 6, 1965, File-Administration, Folder-A2623 Situation Reports, SCBL Superintendent.
11Superintendent Robert L. Burns to Regional Director, Midwest Region, memo, August 11, 1980, File-Administration, Folder-Chronological File, I&RM Division Starting 11-29-79- , SCBL Superintendent.
12Ibid., Superintendent Burns to Mary Herber, HFC, memo, January 6, 1981. Photographs and paintings total 800 and 700 respectively. (See Park Curatorial Program Data Questionnaire and Scope of Collection Statement, August 1974, File-Development and Maintenance, Folder-D2623 Reports, Other, SCBL Superintendent.
13Ibid., and Harris, A History of Scotts Bluff, p. 68.
Interpretation and Environmental Education
15Superintendent, Scotts Bluff National Monument and Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, to Midwest Regional Director, Memorandum, December 16, 1983.
16Superintendent Homer L. Rouse to Regional Director, Midwest Region, memo, June 14, 1971, File-Administration, Folder-A8227 Special Events, SCBL Superintendent. The next year, the living history program was held only on Sunday afternoons. Thirteen VIPs performed before 1,753 visitors.
17Environmental Awareness Key-man Benjamin F. Ladd to Regional Director, Midwest Region, memo, October 2, 1969, File-Administration, Folder-A98 Environmental Study Area, SCBL Superintendent.
18Ibid., Rouse to James G. Keller, Emporia High School, letter, September 9, 1970.
19Ibid., Rouse to Regional Director, memo, September 8, 1970.
20Superintendent Donald Harper to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Annual Report 1975, January 26, 1976, File-Administration, Folder-A2621 Annual Report (Superintendent's) 1936- , SCBL Superintendent.
21Harper to Chief, Division of Interpretation and Visitor Services, memo, November 22, 1976, File-Administration, Folder-A98 Environmental Awareness III (Conservation), SCBL Superintendent.
22Harper to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Annual Report 1977, March 6, 1978, File-Administration, Folder-A2621 Annual Report (Superintendent's) 1936- , SCBL Superintendent.
Land Acquisition, Problems and Threats
23Master Plan Brief for Scotts Bluff National Monument, approved July 28, 1965, by Acting Director Al Stratton, p. 11.
24Superintendent Richard L. Holder to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Annual Report F.Y. 1966, May 25, 1966, File-Administration, Folder-A2621 Annual Report (Superintendent's) 1936- , SCBL Superintendent.
25Ibid., Harper to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Annual Report, 1973, January 17, 1974.
26Ibid., Superintendent Jerry Banta to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Annual Report 1981, March 11, 1982.
27Banta to Regional Director, Midwest Region, memo, November 20, 1981, File-Administration, Folder-A5631 Informational Memoranda, SCBL Superintendent.
28Rouse to Regional Director, Midwest Region, memo, May 8, 1968, File-Administration, Folder-A2623 Situation Reports, SCBL Superintendent.
29Rouse to Regional Director, Midwest Region, memo, September 10, 1970, File-Administration, Folder-A22 North Platte Valley Historical Association, SCBL Superintendent.
30Superintendent, Scotts Bluff National Monument and Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, to Midwest Regional Director, Memorandum, December 16, 1983.
31Burns to Central Irrigation District: Holtorf, Hansen, Kovarik, and Nuttleman, Attorneys at Law, Gering, Nebraska, memo, September 8, 1980, File-Administration, Folder-"Chronological File—I&RM Division" Starting 11-29-79- , SCBL Superintendent.
32Regional Chief of Maintenance Robert G. Cooper and Maintenance Engineer James L. Ayers, Jr., to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Trip Report, April 26, 1965, File-Administration, Folder-A2623 Situation Reports, SCBL Superintendent. The report stated that normal, combustible refuse was burned in a small portable steel incinerator near the utility buildings, while wet garbage was collected in cans and hauled once a week to the Gering City Dump.
33Michael E. Solomon, City Administrator, City of Gering, to Superintendent Alford J. Banta, letter, October 21, 1982, File-Development and Maintenance, Folder-D2215 Development/Study Package Proposals; Water Line and Pump Station, SCBL Superintendent.
34"Summary of Threats to Scotts Bluff National Monument," typewritten statement, circa 1981, File-Administration, Folder-A2623 Situation Reports, SCBL Superintendent.
Master Plan and Statement for Management
35Chief, Branch of Master Plan Drawings, Edward S. Peetz, to Regional Director, Midwest Region, and Chief, WODC, memo, July 29, 1965; and attached Master Plan, July 28, 1965; File-Development and Maintenance, Folder-D18 Planning Program and Master Plans through 1975, Closed, SCBL Superintendent.
36Master Plan, Scotts Bluff National Monument, Nebraska (Denver Service Center: NPS, 1976), quoted from inside cover.
41Superintendent, Scotts Bluff National Monument and Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, to Midwest Regional Director, Memorandum, December 16, 1983.
42Master Plan, Scotts Bluff National Monument, Nebraska (Denver Service Center: NPS, 1976), p. 18.
44L. Clifford Soubier, Interpretive Prospectus, Scotts Bluff National Monument (NPS, approved April 4, 1978), p. 3.
46Statement for Management, Scotts Bluff National Monument (NPS, 1978), pp. 6-7, with approval memo, Beal to Superintendent, June 5, 1978, File-Development and Maintenance, Folder-D18 Statement for Management, Planning Program, and Master Plan, SCBL Superintendent.
Maintenance: The Summit Road and Rock Slides
47Richard L. Holder to Regional Director, Midwest Region, memo, May 25, 1966, File-Administration, Folder-A2621 Annual Report (Superintendent's) 1936- , SCBL Superintendent.
48Assistant Regional Director, Development, to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Trip Report, October 16, 1966, File-Administration, Folder-A2623 Situation Reports, SCBL Superintendent.
49Ibid., Holder to Regional Director, Midwest Region, memo, August 16, 1967.
50Ibid., Vance L. Kaminski to Assistant Regional Director, Midwest Region, Trip Report, September 21, 1967.
51Ibid., Superintendent Rouse to Regional Director, Midwest Region, memo, July 2, 1969.
52D.C. Harrington, Chief, Federal Highway Projects Division, Federal Highway Administration, to Regional Director, Midwest Region, letter, April 1, 1971, File-Development and Maintenance, Folder-D3015 Roads and Trails Maintenance 1954-1970, SCBL Superintendent.
53Ibid., Phillip R. Iversen, Assistant Director, Park Support Services, Midwest Region, to Superintendent, memo, (undated) Spring 1970.
54Ibid., Superintendent Rouse to Regional Director, Midwest Region, memo, May 13, 1970.
55Hugh Beattie and Tom Weeks, Operations Evaluation Team, Midwest Region, to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Operations Evaluation Report 1975, File-Administration, Folder-A5427 Inspections—Field Offices, SCBL Superintendent.
56Superintendent Burns to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Annual Report 1980, March 31, 1981, File-Administration, Folder-Annual Report (Superintendent's) 1936- ; and Civil Engineer Wayne Vander Tuin, Division of Maintenance and Energy, to Superintendent, memo of telephone call, September 3, 1980, File-Administration, Folder-A2623 Situation Reports, SCBL Superintendent.
57Superintendent, Scotts Bluff National Monument and Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, to Midwest Regional Director, Memorandum, December 16, 1983.
58John Kawamoto, Associate Regional Director, Planning and Resource Preservation, Midwest Region, to Superintendents, memo, November 12, 1982, File-Development and Maintenance, Folder-D18 Planning Program and Master Plans, SCBL Superintendent.
General Park Maintenance: A Chronological Account
59Project Completion Report, Construction Interpretive Signs, 1959, File-Development and Maintenance, Folder-D2623 Situation Reports, SCBL Superintendent.
60Superintendent Keith E. Miller to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Annual Report F.Y. 1964, May 28, 1964, File-Administration, Folder-A2621 Annual Report (Superintendent's) 1936- , SCBL Superintendent.
61Edwin C. Alberts, Regional Chief, Interpretation and Visitor Services, to Associate Regional Director, Midwest Region, Trip Report, July 30, 1964, File-Administration, Folder-A5427 Inspections—Field Offices, SCBL Superintendent.
62Chief of Area Services, Charles J. Novak, to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Trip Report, June 10, 1965, File-Administration, Folder-A2623 Situation Report, SCBL Superintendent.
65Ibid., Highlight Briefing Statement, 1966 Calendar Year.
66Ibid., Donald S. Nutt, Regional Chief of Maintenance, to Assistant Regional Director, Midwest Region, Trip Report, June 2, 1967. Nutt also commented that the "general appearance of the area is very good," but with no maintenance foreman to direct maintenance operations, "an inordinate amount of time to this goes to the Superintendent and Management Assistant."
67J.L. Dunning, Fred Dickison, and LeRoy Brown, Management Appraisal Report, September 3, 1969, File-Administration, Folder-A5427 Inspections—Field Offices, SCBL Superintendent.
68Superintendent Harper to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Annual Report 1972, January 10, 1973, File-Administration, Folder-Annual Report (Superintendent's) 1936- , SCBL Superintendent.
69Ibid., Harper to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Annual Report 1974, January 23, 1975.
70Ibid., Harper to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Annual Report 1975, January 26, 1976.
71Ibid., Harper to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Annual Report 1977, March 6, 1978.
72Robert L. Hamann, Chief of Maintenance, Job Order Request Form, undated (ca. 1980), File-Administration, Folder-"Chronological File, I&RM Division" Starting 11-29-79- , SCBL Superintendent.
73Superintendent Banta to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Annual Report 1981, March 11, 1982, File-Administration, Folder-A2621 Annual Report (Superintendent's) 1936- , SCBL Superintendent.
Management Appraisal and Operations Evaluation Reports
74J.L. Dunning, Fred Dickison, LeRoy Brown, Management Appraisal Report, September 3, 1969, File-Administration, Folder-A5427 Inspections—Field Offices, SCBL Superintendent.
75Ibid., H. Gordon Bender, Operations Evaluation Report, November 20, 1970.
76Ibid., Operations Evaluation Report, (no author), January-February 1972.
77Ibid., Hugh Beattie and Tom Weeks, Operations Evaluation Report, 1975.
Core Mission/Basic Operations
80Draft, Basic Operations Declaration, Scotts Bluff National Monument, November 1981, p. 7, File-Administration, Folder-A5631 Informational Memoranda, SCBL Superintendent.
81Ibid., Superintendent Banta to Regional Director, Midwest Region, memo, November 20, 1981.
82Superintendent Burns to Regional Director, Midwest Region, memo, April 1, 1980, File-Administration, Folder-"Chronological File, I&RM Division" Starting 11-29-79- , SCBL Superintendent.
83Superintendent Banta, interview, March 9, 1983, Midwest Regional Office, Omaha, Nebraska.
Soil and Moisture Conservation and Wildlife Management
84Master Plan, 1976, pp. 14-5.
85Charles J. Novak, Chief of Area Services, to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Trip Report, June 10, 1965, File-Administration, Folder-A2623 Situation Reports, SCBL Superintendent.
86Ibid., Fred Dickison, Forester, to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Trip Report, September 22, 1965.
87Ibid.; and Miller to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Annual Report F.Y. 1965, May 28, 1965, File-Administration, Folder-A2621 Annual Report (Superintendent's) 1936- , SCBL Superintendent.
88Ibid., Harper to Regional Director, Annual Report 1972, January 10, 1973.
89Ibid., Annual Report 1973, January 17, 1974.
90Ibid., Annual Report 1974, January 23, 1975. The current RMP for Scotts Bluff identifies prairie management concerns and proposes special studies to allow more active management of grasslands.
91Superintendent, Scotts Bluff National Monument and Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, to Midwest Regional Director, Memorandum, December 16, 1983.
92Banta to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Annual Report 1981, March 11, 1982, File-Administration, Folder-A2621 Annual Report (Superintendent's) 1936- , SCBL Superintendent.
93John Kawamoto, Associate Regional Director, Planning and Resource Preservation, to Superintendents, Midwest Region, memo, November 12, 1982, File-Development and Maintenance, Folder-D18 Planning Program and Master Plans, SCBL Superintendent.
94Cockrell, An Interview with Historian Merrill J. Mattes, p. 8.
95Chief, I&RM, to files, Annual Report, I&RM Division, 1979, March 3, 1980, File-Administration, Folder-A2621 Annual Report (Superintendent's) 1936- , SCBL Superintendent.
96Ibid., Banta to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Annual Report 1981, March 11, 1982.
Cooperative Association: Oregon Trail Museum Association (OTMA)
97Harris, A History of Scotts Bluff, p. 68.
98John Henneberger to Ron Cockrell, letter, December 4, 1983, South Suburban, Illinois.
99Harper to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Annual Report 1972, January 10, 1973, File-Administration, Folder-A2621 Annual Report (Superintendent's) 1936- , SCBL Superintendent. In 1972, the OTMA assisted in the National Park Movement Centennial through various exhibits and assisting a foreign exchange delegate to attend the Second Annual World Conference on National Parks.
100Ibid., Annual Report 1973, January 17, 1974.
101Hugh Beattie and Tom Weeks, Operations Evaluation Report 1975, File-Administration, Folder-A5427 Inspections—Field Offices, SCBL Superintendent.
102Burns to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Annual Report 1978, File-Administration, Folder-A2621 Annual Report (Superintendent's) 1936- , SCBL Superintendent.
103Banta to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Annual Report 1981, March 11, 1982.
104Oregon Trail Museum Association Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors, Minutes, December 3, 1981, File-Administration, Folder-A42 1974—Cooperating Associations, SCBL Superintendent.
Cooperative and Mutual Aid Agreements
105LeRoy R. Brown, Assistant Regional Director, Operations, to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Trip Report, January 30, 1969, File-Administration, Folder-A2623 Situation Reports, SCBL Superintendent.
106J. L. Dunning, Fred F. Dickison, LeRoy R. Brown, Management Appraisal Report, September 3, 1969, File-Administration, Folder-A5427 Inspections—Field Offices, SCBL Superintendent.
107Superintendent Jerry Banta, telephone conversation, March 18, 1983.
108Letter of Agreement, Three-Party Agreement: National Park Service, Wyrulec Company, Department of Energy/Western Area Power Administration, September 12, 1979, Contract No. 9-07-70-P0240, File-Administration, Folder-A44, Cooperative Agreements, SCBL Superintendent. While it is true that previous negotiations were with the Bureau of Reclamation, a reorganization in the mid-1970s resulted in WAPA no longer under Bureau of Reclamation authority. WAPA is represented in this agreement by the Department of Energy, formed in 1977.
109Ibid., J.L. Dunning, Regional Director, Midwest Region, to Regional Solicitor, Denver, memo, February 16, 1979.
110Superintendent Banta, telephone conversation, March 18, 1983.
111Acting Superintendent to Regional Director, Midwest Region, memo, May 4, 1978, File-Administration, Folder-A44 Cooperative Agreements, SCBL Superintendent.
112Ibid., Mutual Fire Assistance Agreement Between Scotts Bluff National Monument and Gering Volunteer Fire Department, Signed September 23, 1980, Robert L. Burns, Superintendent. A similar agreement drawn up for the Scottsbluff VFD went unsigned.
113Superintendent Burns to David R. Schleve, Sheriff, Scotts Bluff County, letter, March 4, 1980, File-Administration, Folder-"Chronological File, I&RM Division" Starting 11-29-79- , SCBL Superintendent.
Special Use Permits
114Special Use Permit, NPS and Union Pacific Railroad, July 22, 1969, File-Administration, Folder-A44 Cooperative Agreements, SCBL Superintendent. Since this agreement was signed, the NPS has questioned the legality of the Union Pacific right-of-way, and no other permit was negotiated.
115Superintendent Harper to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Annual Report 1975, January 26, 1976, File-A2621 Annual Report (Superintendent's) 1936- ; and Burns to Gering Irrigation District, undated letter concerning Special Use Permit #6700-77-1 , File-Administration, Folder-"Chronological File, I&RM Division" Starting 11-29-79- , SCBL Superintendent.
116Statement for Management, Scotts Bluff National Monument, 1978, File-Development and Maintenance, Folder-D18 Statement for Management, Planning Program, and Master Plan, SCBL Superintendent; and, Harris, A History of Scotts Bluff, pp. 63-4.
117Hugh Beattie and Tom Weeks, Operations Evaluation Report 1975, File-Administration, Folder-A5427 Inspections—Field Offices, SCBL Superintendent. The report recommended that the permit contain "an ironclad clause restricting the permit to be non-renewable."
118Superintendent, Scotts Bluff National Monument and Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, to Midwest Regional Director, Memorandum, December 16, 1983.
119Secretary of the Interior to Honorable Virginia Smith (House of Representatives; Nebraska), draft of letter, August 20, 1980, File-Administration, Folder-A3615 Complaints, Service and Personnel, SCBL Superintendent.
120Burns to Regional Director, Midwest Region, memo, March 31, 1980, File-Administration, Folder-"Chronological File, I&RM Division" Starting 11-29-79- , SCBL Superintendent.
121Merrill D. Beal, Regional Director, to Hon. Virginia Smith, House of Representatives, letter, February 8, 1977, File-Administration, Folder-A3615 Complaints, Service and Personnel, SCBL Superintendent.
Concessions
122Harris, A History of Scotts Bluff, pp. 56-7.
123Superintendent Richard L. Holder to Regional Director, Midwest Region, memo, October 12, 1966, File-Concessions, Folder-C58 Buildings and Other Facilities, SCBL Superintendent .
Fee Collection
124Cockrell, An Interview with Historian Merrill J. Mattes, p. 7.
125Superintendent, Scotts Bluff National Monument and Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, to Midwest Regional Director, Memorandum, December 16, 1983.
126Superintendent Banta, telephone conversation, March 18, 1983.
Cooperation with the Nebraska State Historical Society and the North Platte Valley Historical Association
127Memorandum of Agreement, Department of the Interior, Nebraska State Historical Society, and the City of Bayard, Nebraska, June 21, 1956, File-Administration, Folder-A44 Cooperative Agreements; and, Chimney Rock National Historic Site, Nebraska," NPS pamphlet March 1964 NHS-CH-17000, reprinted 1978, Government Printing Office.
128"Gering-Scottsbluff Rendezvous, Nebraska State Historical Society, Spring Meeting, Town Park Hotel, Scottsbluff, May 24, 1964," promotional bulletin of the NSHS,File-Administration, Folder-A22 North Platte Valley Historical Association, SCBL Superintendent.
129Superintendent Burns to Jim Potter, State Archivist, NSHS, memo, December 3, 1979, File-Administration, Folder-"Chronological File, I&RM Division" Starting 11-29-79- , SCBL Superintendent.
130Merrill J. Mattes to Robert Burns, letter, December 28, 1979, File-Administration, Folder-A7221 Files Management, SCBL Superintendent.
131Jim Potter to Superintendent Burns, letter, June 4, 1981, File-Administration, Folder-A7221 Files Management, SCBL Superintendent.
132Superintendent Alford J. Banta, interview, January 1983, Gering, Nebraska.
Archeology
133Wendell Frantz, An Archeological Survey of Scotts Bluff National Monument, A Report Prepared by the Nebraska State Historical Society (Lincoln: May 3, 1966), p. 12.
134Marvin Kay, Archeological Surveys in Scotts Bluff and Agate Fossil Beds National Monuments, Nebraska (Lincoln: Department of Anthropology, University of Nebraska, 1975), p. 1.
Safety
137"Second Fatality in 50-Year History of Monument Recorded," Gering Courier (26 February 1970), p. 1; Rouse to Regional Director, Midwest Region, memo, March 13, 1970, File-Administration, Folder-A7623 Joseph Arnold Kinnersley (Death), SCBL Superintendent.
138Superintendent Harper to Regional Director, Midwest Region, memo, February 11, 1974, File-Administration, Folder-A7623 Leonardo J. Hernandez-Chavez (Death), SCBL Superintendent.
Energy Conservation
139Harper to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Annual Report 1973, January 17, 1974, File-Administration, Folder-A2621 Annual Report (Superintendent's) 1936- , SCBL Superintendent.
Youth Programs
140Superintendent Jones to Regional Director, Midwest Region, memo, August 29, 1962, File-A9819, Folder-Youth Conservation Corps, SCBL Superintendent. Jones recommended that if a YCC camp was established, that it be both State and Federally-funded and located at Lake Minatare, "A small spike camp would be sufficient for our projects at Scotts Bluff National Monument."
141Superintendent Holder to Regional Director, Midwest Region, memo, June 12, 1968, File-Administration, Folder-A2623 Situation Reports, SCBL Superintendent.
142Superintendent Harper to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Annual Report 1973, January 17, 1974, SCBL Superintendent.
143Superintendent Homer L. Rouse, "Scouts and NPS Soar," National Park Courier (June 1974), p. 5, File-Administration, Folder-A22 Boy Scouts of America, SCBL Superintendent.
144Superintendent, Scotts Bluff National Monument and Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, to Midwest Regional Director, Memorandum, December 16, 1983.
145The information was found in various letters in administration folder A9819 Youth Opportunity Campaign, Neighborhood Youth Corps, SCBL Superintendent.
Law Enforcement and Monument Security
146Superintendent Harper to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Annual Report 1977, March 6, 1978, File-Administration, Folder-A2621 Annual Report (Superintendent's) 1936- , SCBL Superintendent.
147Ibid., Harper to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Annual Report 1977, March 6, 1978.
148Ibid., Burns to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Annual Report 1979.
149Cockrell, An Interview with Historian Merrill J. Mattes, p. 22.
150Burns to Regional Director, Midwest Region, memo, September 5, 1980, File-Administration, Folder-"Chronological File, I&RM Division" Starting 11-29-79- , SCBL Superintendent.
151Draft Security Plan, March 1981, File-Administration, Folder-A7633 Protection, Vandalism, SCBL Superintendent.
PART III: MISSION 66 AND SPECIAL EVENTS
Scope of the Scotts Bluff Initiative
1John Henneberger to Ron Cockrell, letter, December 4, 1983, South Suburban, Illinois.
2See MISSION 66 For Scotts Bluff National Monument, National Park Service: n.d. [circa 1956]; and Superintendent Henneberger to Director, National Park Service, fiscal 1959 Annual Report, May 28, 1959, File-Administration, Folder-A2621 Annual Report (Superintendent's) 1936- , SCBL Superintendent New cases and exhibits were installed in the Landmark Room by a team of specialists from the Western Museum Laboratory in early 1963. See, Ibid., Louise Ridge, Acting Superintendent, to Regional Director, Midwest Region, 1963 Annual Report, May 27, 1963.
3Regional Chief of Operations to Superintendents, Region II Field Areas, memo, March 9, 1960, File-Administration, Folder-A98 MISSION 66, SCBL Superintendent.
Other Special Events
4John Henneberger to Ron Cockrell, letter, December 4, 1983, South Suburban, Illinois.
5Superintendent Henneberger to Director, Superintendent's Annual Report F.Y. 1961, May 26, 1961, File-Administration, Folder-A2621 Annual Report (Superintendent's) 1936- , SCBL Superintendent.
6"Scotts Bluff National Monument Honors James R. Taylor Family in Billioneth [sic] Visitor Day Observance," news release, August 22, 1962, File-Administration, Folder-A8227 Special Events, SCBL Superintendent.
7Superintendent Miller to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Project Completion Report, July 30, 1964, File-Development and Maintenance, Folder-D2623 Situation Reports, Completion Reports through 1964, SCBL Superintendent.
8Highlight Briefing Statement, 1966 Calendar Year, File-Administration, Folder-A2623 Situation Reports, SCBL Superintendent.
9Superintendent Holder to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Annual Report F.Y. 1966, May 25, 1966, Folder-A2621 Annual Report (Superintendent's) 1936- , SCBL Superintendent.
10Superintendent Harper to Regional Director, Midwest Region, memo, November 8, 1972, File-Administration, Folder-A8215 Anniversaries, Dedications, etc. 1971- (Book 2), SCBL Superintendent.
11Harper to Regional Director, Midwest Region, Annual Report 1976, February 17, 1977, File-Administration, Folder-A2621 Annual Report (Superintendent's) 1936- , SCBL Superintendent.
12Chief, I&RM, memo to the files, April 18, 1979, File-Administration, Folder-A3815 Local Public Relations, Federal Agencies, SCBL Superintendent.
PART IV: NEARBY HISTORICAL AREAS
Establishment of Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Nebraska
1Superintendent Holder to Paul Henderson, letter, September 10, 1968, (AGATE) File-Administration, Folder-A3815 Public Relations, SCBL Superintendent.
2Ibid.; "Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Nebraska," National Park Service pamphlet, 1975.
Chimney Rock and Fort Laramie National Historic Sites
3Memorandum of Agreement, Department of the Interior, Nebraska State Historical Society, and the City of Bayard, Nebraska, June 21, 1956, File-Administration, Folder-A44 Cooperative Agreements; and, "Chimney Rock National Historic Site, Nebraska," National Park Service pamphlet March 1964 NHS-CH-17000, reprinted 1978, Government Printing Office.
4Regional Director, Midwest Region, to Superintendent Rouse, February 3, 1971, memo, File-Development and Maintenance, Folder-D18 Planning Program and Master Plans through 1975, Closed, SCBL Superintendent. For the views of an adamant boundary revisionist, see the Merrill J. Mattes interview by Ron Cockrell.
5Jim Schachter, "Preservation of Fading Landmarks on the Western Trails Gets Rolling," The Kansas City Star (20 January 1983), p. 8A. A new organization, the Oregon-California Trail Association, has been formed to assist the NPS and lobby for Congressional support. The first meeting of the organization took place in Independence, Missouri, in August, 1983. For more information, see the Merrill J. Mattes interview by Ron Cockrell.
6Keith G. Sebelius to Superintendent Burns, letter, September 14, 1978, File-Administration, Folder-A3815 Local Public Relations, Federal Agencies, SCBL Superintendent.
7 Regional Director Baker to Superintendent Henneberger, memo, May 2, 1960, File-General, Folder-L1417 Boundary Adjustments 1959- , SCBL Superintendent. At this same time, legislation changing the status of Fort Laramie, Bent's Old Fort, and Fort Larned were pending. No complaints from the public were received regarding these proposals.
8Ibid., Baker to Director, National Park Service, memo, May 17, 1960.
9Cockrell, An Interview with Historian Merrill J. Mattes, pp. 27-8.
PART V: SUMMARY: SCOTTS BLUFF NATIONAL MONUMENT
1Interpretive Statement, excerpt from a two-fold leaflet, File-Administration, Folder-A98 Environmental Awareness III (Conservation), SCBL Superintendent.
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