Cover Page

Preface

Introduction

In Search of an Identity

Photofile

Bibliography

Notes

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

National Park Service Uniforms In Search of an Identity 1872-1920	Number 2
In Search of an Identity (continued)

Yellowstone Park Scout Badge, c. 1894-1906. Issued to civilian scouts hired by the military to help protect Yellowstone National Park. Scouts were issued nickel-silver, while those of the chief scouts were sterling silver. NPSHC

Chauncey E. "Chance" Beebe, ranger at Glacier National Park, 1920. Chance is wearing one of the first uniforms of the new 1920 Model. The new insignia and badges had not been issued at the time of the photograph. NPSHPC - GLAC/HPF#2681

By February 1920 the regulations were ready for submission to the secretary for his approval. On March 20 Director Mather signed the first "official" regulations covering the rangers employed in the national parks servicewide. The park personnel covered by these regulations had to uniform themselves no later than July 1. Although not spelled out in the regulations, ranger badges of a new and approved design were being manufactured and the old badges were to be replaced sometime in May. [82]

The guardians of our national parks had at last come of age. No longer would they be just a collection of men in search of an identity, not knowing from year to year what their next uniform would look like, or even what color it would be. This must have been very gratifying to men like Walter Fry, Washington Lewis, and the others who had struggled through the early years to raise the Service to the level of the sacrifices being made by the men in it.

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