Managing the 'Matchless Wonders': A History of Administrative Development in Yellowstone National Park, 1872-1965

Rydell, Kiki; Culpin, Mary

This historic resource study also serves as Part 1 of the park's administrative history and focuses on the development of Yellowstone's administrative infrastructure and the management concepts driving that development. The document explores the park's administration from the time it became our nation's first national park in 1872 through the last phases of the Mission 66 era in 1965. The historic resource study develops a historic context in which the significant resources associated with the on-going administration of Yellowstone National Park may be evaluated, provides information for Yellowstone National Park (YNP) divisions and park concessionaires, and facilitates further histmic research. Additionally, this historic context for the development of the administration of YNP will be combined with the concessions historic resource study (HRS), published m 2004, to develop a NR \1ulliple Property Submission, which provides the framework for evaluating the park's historic bui !dings for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. HRS II, For the Benefit and Enjoyment of the People:" A History of concession Development in Yellowstone National Park, 1872-1966 and HRS III, Managing the "Matchless Wonders": A flistory of Administrative Development in Yellowstone National Park 1872-1965 are available electronically on the National Park Service history web site http://www.cr.nps.gov/historv/index.asp and at Yellowstone National Park's web site at http://www.nps.gov/yell/history/index.htrn.

Managing the 'Matchless Wonders': A History of Administrative Development in Yellowstone National Park, 1872-1965

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