Yellowstone
Historic Resource Study
The History of the Construction of the Road System in Yellowstone National Park, 1872-1966
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Part One: The History of the Construction of the Road System in Yellowstone National Park, 1827-1966 and the History of the Grand Loop and the Entrance Roads


CHAPTER XI:
ENDNOTES

385. Bernard DeVoto, "Let's Close the National Parks," Harper's Magazine October, 1953, 49-52.

386. John Ise, Our National Park Policy, A Critical History (Baltimore: Resources for the Future, Inc., by the John Hopkins Press, 1961), 546-550.

387. "MISSION 66 For Yellowstone National Park," National Park Service, United States Department of Interior, unpublished document, Library, Rocky Mountain Regional Office, Denver, Colorado.

388. Ibid.

389. Memorandum to Chief, Western Office, Division of Design and Construction, Through, Chief, Division of Design and Construction, from Assistant Director of National Park Service Thomas Allen, 13 February 1956, Record Group 79, Yellowstone National Park, Box 10, Roads, National Archives and Records Center, Denver, Colorado.

390. Memorandum to Chief, Western Office, Division of Design and Construction from Park Landscape Architect Charles Krueger, 17 January 1956, Record Group 79, Yellowstone National Park, Box 10, National Archives and Record Center, Denver, Colorado.

391. Ibid.

392. See Appendix D for the Major and Minor Road Program for 1957-1967. Record Group 79, Yellowstone National Park, Box 10, National Archives and Records Center, Denver, Colorado.

393. Memorandum to Regional Director, Region Two, National Park Service from Superintendent, Yellowstone National Park, 17 August 1956. Letter to Mr. Edmund Rogers, Superintendent, Yellowstone National Park from Mr. K. S. Chamberlain, Division Engineer, Bureau of Public Roads, 6 September 1956. Memorandum to Regional Director, Region Two, National Park Service from Superintendent, Yellowstone National Park, 13 September 1956, Record Group 79, Yellowstone National Park, Box 10, National Archives and Records Center, Denver, Colorado.

394. Harold Bradley, "Roads in Our National Parks," National Parks Magazine, February, 1959. 6.

395. The fourteen major bridges constructed during the Mission 66 period.

Yellowstone River Bridge1961
Lewis River Bridge1960
Madison River Bridge1958
Gardner River Bridge1958
Gardner River Bridge1957
Chittenden Memorial Bridge1962
Bridge Bay Bridge1961
Firehole River Bridge1967
Nez Perce Creek on Fountain Freight Rd1965
Gibbon River Bridge1960
Gibbon River Bridge1960
Gibbon River Bridge1960
Beryl Springs Bridge1962
Gibbon River Bridge1960

396. The four bridges built during the 1970s were the following:

South Entrance Bridge1972
Thumb Creek Bridge1972
Firehole River Bridge1970
Golden Gate Viaduct1977


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