Place of Passages: Jewel Cave National Monument: Historic Resource Study
Evan-Hatch G, Evan-Hatch M, Evans-Hatch & Associates. 2006. Place of Passages: Jewel Cave National Monument: Historic Resource Study. Historic Resource Study. National Park Service. Omaha, Nebraska
This Historic Resource Study presents an overview of the history now contained in Jewel Cave National Monument. Emphasis in this study is on the time period before the National Park Service (NPS) began administering Jewel Cave in 1933-1934. This study endeavors to not only narrate the history of local events and people that have been associated with Jewel Cave history, but also aims to provide an understanding of this local history by placing it in the broader context of regional and national historical trends and movements. The Michaud family, beginning with the arrival of Felix Michaud in the late 1870s and ending with Mamie Michaud’s sale of Jewel Cave in the late 1920s, has been a central player in a fifty-year slice of Jewel Cave history. The Michaud family serves in this study as a thread that connects larger historical themes (such as settlement, ranching, mining, and tourism) in the tapestry of Black Hills history with the sequence of local activities at and near Jewel Cave.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Evan-Hatch, Gail; Evan-Hatch, Michael; Evans-Hatch & Associates
- Date of Issue
- 2006
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- HIST , JECA
- Keywords
- CAVE, ehistory, Geology, Gold, harvesting, Minerals, Native Americans, Natural Resources, Physical Sciences, U.S. Forest Service, Visitors