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

257. Published hearings before the House of Representatives Committee on the Public Lands regarding H. R. 3682, 68th Congress, 1st Session, February 7, 1924, 3, 18, 19, 20, 26, and 27. The text of the hearings contains good information on other national parks - Yosemite, Crater Lake, Mount Rainier, Glacier, Mount McKinley, Grand Canyon, Mesa Verde, Hawaii, General Grant, Lassen Volcanic, Sequoia, Lafayette, Rocky Mountain, Wind Cave, Platt, and Zion.

258. Stephen Mather, Report of the Director of The National Park Service to the Secretary of The Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1924, and the Travel Season 1924 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1924), 12.

259. Mather, Report of the Director of the National Park Service to the Secretary of The Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1924, and the Travel Season 1924, 12.

260. Mather, 34 and 96.

261. Horace Albright, "Report on Roadside Clean Up," October 8, 1924.

262. Mather, 96.

263. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. to Horace Albright, 15 August 1924. Rockefeller Archives, Tarrytown, New York.

264. Horace Albright to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 2 September 1924. Rockefeller Archives, Tarrytown, New York.

265. Horace Albright, "Report on Conditions of the Roadsides Between the Superintendent's office at Mammoth Hot Springs and Norris Junction, September 1924." There are good photographs in Rockefeller Archives of before and afterviews of the cleanup program. Many details of the cleanup can be found in the correspondence and reports regarding the project. These are located in the Rockefeller Archives in Tarrytown, New York.

266. Rockefeller to Albright, 9 October 1924. Rockefeller Archives, Tarrytown, New York.

267. Albright, "Report on Roadside Clean-up," October 8, 1924.

268. Rockefeller to Albright, 16 October 1924. Rockefeller Archives, Tarrytown, New York.

269. Albright to Rockefeller 4 November 1924. Rockefeller Archives, Tarrytown, New York.

270. Ibid. Rockefeller Archives, Tarrytown, New York.

271. Horace Albright to Stephen Mather, Director of the National Park Service 17 June 1924. Yellowstone National Park Archives, Yellowstone National Park.

272. Ibid.

273. Ibid.

274. Albright to Mather, 11 November 1924. Yellowstone National Park Archives, Yellowstone National Park.

275. R.W. Burney, Assistant Engineer, Yellowstone National Park to Albright, 6 December 1925. Yellowstone National Park Archives, Yellowstone National Park.

276. Leroy Hill, Acting Superintendent, Yellowstone National Park to Congressman Scott Leavitt, 7 December 1925. Yellowstone National Park Archives, Yellowstone National Park.

In Doris Whithorn's "Yankee Jim's National Park Toll Road and the Yellowstone Trail," April 1989, she writes . . . In 1924 construction was started . . . this time on the east side of the river — across the gorge from Yankee Jim's rough trail. When the contractor, L.T. Lawler of Butte announced the January completion of the grading and rock work started on August 18th with a crew of 60 men, the comment ran: 'The construction of a road on the east side of the river to eliminate the hills in Yankee Jim Canyon has been the desire of Park County people for a number of years.' During 1925 all of the 10 miles from Carbella to Corwin were graded and immediately there were plans to hard surface the entire section. It was August 1926 when the paving project was done, and by mid-September of that year, traffic was routed over the beautiful new highway. Altogether for the 10-mile stretch there had been an outlay of $92,000 — $60,000 worth of grading and $32,000 for hard surfacing.

277. John Ise, Our National Park Policy: A Critical History (Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1961), 327.