Yellowstone Historic Resource Study The History of the Construction of the Road System in Yellowstone National Park, 1872-1966

1. Hiram Chittenden, Report Upon the Construction, Repairs, and Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in the Yellowstone National Park and Construction of Military Road from Fort Washakie to Mouth of Buffalo Fork of Snake River, Wyoming and Erection of Monument to Sgt. Charles Floyd In the Charge of Hiram M. Chittenden, Captain, Corps of Engineers. Appendixes FFF, III, and JJJ of the Annual Report of Chief of Engineers for 1901 (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1901), 3794.

2. The segment of 1901 route from Turbid Lake to Sylvan Pass is roughly the same route as the designated pack trail route, —.

3. Chittenden, 3780-82.

4. Ibid, 3794

5. Hiram M. Chittenden, Improvement of Yellowstone National Park, Including the Construction, Repair and Maintenance of Roads and Bridges. Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1902, Appendix FFF (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1902), 3035.

6. Hiram M. Chittenden, and John Mills, Annual Report Upon the Construction, Repair, and Maintenance of Roads and Bridges In the Yellowstone National Park and the Road Into Mount Rainier National Park; Survey for Wagon Road from Valdes to Fort Egbert, Alaska, and Survey for Military Trail Between Yukon River and Coldfoot, Alaska, Appendixes FFF and DDD of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1905 (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1905), 2811.

Hiram M. Chittenden, Ernest Peek, John Mills, and Francis A. Pope, Annual Report Upon the Construction, Repair, and Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in the Yellowstone National Park and the Road Into Mount Rainier National Park, Appendixes GGG and JJJ of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1906 (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1906), 2255.

7. Wildurr Willing and C.W. Kutz, Report Upon the Construction, Repair, and Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in the Yellowstone National Park and Report Upon the Road Into Mount Rainier National Park, Appendixes GGG and HHH (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1909), 2510.

C. H. Knight, J.B. Cavanaugh, and Jay J. Morrow, Report Upon the Construction, Repair, and Maintenance of Roads and Bridges In the Yellowstone National Park, Report Upon the Road Into Mount Rainier National Park. Report Upon Crater Lake National Park, Appendixes EEE and FFF (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1913), 3269.

8. Stephen Mather, Report of the Director of the National Park Service to the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1917 (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1917).

9. Secretary of the Interior Franklin Lane to Senator Francis Warren, 29 January 1920. Yellowstone National Park Archives, Yellowstone National Park.

10. "Proposed Road Projects for 1923." The document had no author or exact date.

11. Horace Albright, Superintendent, Yellowstone National Park to Stephen Mather, Director of the National Park Service, 29 July 1925. Yellowstone National Park Archives, Yellowstone National Park.

12. Sheridan Post Enterprise, October 30, 1927.

13. "Monthly Narrative Report, July 31, 1928 of Yellowstone National Park, District No. 3." File Box: Roads B.P.R. Yellowstone National Park Archives. Yellowstone National Park.

14. "Monthly Narrative Report September 30, 1928, Yellowstone National Park, District No. 3." File Box: Roads B.P.R. Yellowstone National Park Archives, Yellowstone National Park.

15. "Monthly Narrative Report, September 30, 1928, Yellowstone National Park, District No. 3." File Box: Roads B.P.R. Yellowstone National Park Archives, Yellowstone National Park.

16. "Monthly Narrative Report, June 30, 1929, Yellowstone National Park, District No. 3." File Box: Roads B.P.R. Yellowstone National Park Archives, Yellowstone National Park.

17. "Monthly Narrative Report, July 31, 1930, Yellowstone National Park, District No. 3." File Box: Roads B.P.R. Yellowstone National Park Archives, Yellowstone National Park.

18. "Monthly Narrative Report, October 31, 1929, Yellowstone National Park, District No. 3." File Box: Roads. B.P.R. Yellowstone National Park Archives, Yellowstone National Park.

19. "Report to the Chief Architect through the Superintendent, Yellowstone National Park by Mr. Franklin Mattson, Landscape Architect, September 28 - October 28, 1934." Memorandum to C. Capes from Mr. Franklin Mattson, Landscape Architect, 1 August 1935. R.G. 79. Yellowstone. File Box: 10. National Archives and Records Center, Denver, Colorado.

20. E. H. Cowan, Chief Engineer. Inspector-Superintendent," Final Construction Report (1936-37) on Grand Loop 1-El, Parking Area, and East Entrance (Fishing Bridge) 5-D1, part D2, Bridge, Approaches, Surface and Secondary Roads. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. U. S. Bureau of Public Roads, D-3." Loose Folder. Yellowstone National Park Archives. Yellowstone National Park.

21. C. Capes, "Traffic Survey Report Intra-Park Travel Season 1937, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, September 20, 1937." File Box 13. Yellowstone National park Archives. Yellowstone National Park.

22. E. H. Cowan, "Final Construction Report (1939-40) on Grand Loop National Park Project 1-E1, part F1, and East Entrance National Park Project 5-D1, D2, part C, Bituminous Surfacing Yellowstone National Park, State of Wyoming, March 11, 1941." File Box: Roads: Road System Reports 1931-1943. Yellowstone National Park Archives, Yellowstone National Park.

23. Acting Director, National Park Service, A. E. Demaray to Wyoming Congressman, John J. McIntyre, 22 April 194l. Yellowstone National Park Archives, Yellowstone National Park.

24. Real Property Records for Yellowstone National Park, East Entrance Road, Rocky Mountain Regional Office, National Park Service. The records do not detail the work other than in broad terms, i.e. resurfacing, improvements, etc.

25. "Final Construction Report (1965-1966) on Yellowstone National Park Project 5(1) East Entrance Yellowstone National Park, State of Wyoming." Office of Division of Maintenance. Yellowstone National Park.

26. Real Property Records for Yellowstone National Park, East Entrance Road. "Project Summary. East Entrance Guardrail. Yellowstone National Park." Division of Maintenance, Yellowstone National Park.