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

1. William A. Jones, Captain, Report Upon the Reconnaissance of Northwestern Wyoming Including Yellowstone National Park Made in the Summer of 1873 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1875), 58.

2. W. A. Jones, Major, Construction and Improvement of Roads and Bridges in Yellowstone National Park. Appendix EEE (Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1892) (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1893).

3. Hiram Chittenden, Captain, Improvement of the Yellowstone National Park, Including the Construction, Repair and Maintenance of Roads and Bridges (Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1900, Appendix LLL) (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1900).

4. Hiram Chittenden, Captain, Army Engineer Officer, to General Gillespie, Chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 7 December 1901.

5. Hiram Chittenden, Annual Report Upon the Construction, Repair, and Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in the Yellowstone National Park, Appendixes FFF and III of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1902 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1902), 3036.

6. The United States Army took over the administration of Yellowstone National Park in 1886, just three years after the Corps of Engineers assumed responsibility for road construction. A series of soldier stations were built throughout the Park for protection purposes.

7. Memorandum for all Engineers, Overseers and Foreman Under the Engineering Department, Yellowstone Park. May, 1915.

8. Lt. Col. Amos Fries and Col. George Zinn, Report Upon the Construction, Repair, and Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in the Yellowstone National Park and Report Upon Crater Lake National Park (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1917).

9. Memorandum from Acting Director Horace Albright to Lt. Col. Amos Fries, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 9 October 1917.

10. Maj. G.E. Verrill and Col. George Zinn, Report Upon the Construction, Repair, and Maintenance of Roads and Bridges in the Yellowstone National Park and Report Upon Crater Lake National Park (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1918).

11. Stephen Mather, Report of the Director of the National Park Service to the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1918 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1918), 274.

12. "Annual Report of the Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park for 1925," 9.

13. Horace Albright, Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, to J. W. Johnson, District Engineer, Bureau of Public Roads, 11 March 1926. "Tentative Suggestions for Improvements to Park Roads."

14. Frank Kittredge, "Preserving a Valuable Heritage," Civil Engineering, September 1932, 536-37.

15. Mr. B.W. Matteson, District Engineer, Public Roads Administration to Dr. L. I. Hewes, Chief, Western Region, Public Roads Administration, 9 April 1941.

16. Fixed Property Record for South Entrance Road, Yellowstone National Park, 9 September 1976. Rocky Mountain Regional Office, Yellowstone National Park.