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-The Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Badlands National Monument
-and the White River (Big) Badlands of Sou, by Ray H. Mattison and Robert A. Grom and Joanne W. Stockert
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-
-Title: The History of Badlands National Monument and the White River (Big) Badlands of South Dakota
- Badlands Natural History Association Bulletin No. 1
-
-Author: Ray H. Mattison
- Robert A. Grom
- Joanne W. Stockert
-
-Release Date: July 14, 2020 [EBook #62641]
-
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-
- Cover Photo: THE CASTLE, five miles west of Cedar Pass and just west
- of Norbeck Pass, is a spectacular saw-tooth ridge which was named by
- early local ranchers. The spires rise more than 200 feet above the
- Fossil Exhibit Trail (see Figure 28) and approximately 450 feet
- above the lower grassland plains which are out of view on the left.
- The ridge is an eroded remnant of rock layers which formerly covered
- Badlands National Monument and surrounding areas.
-
-
-
-
- HISTORY
- OF
- BADLANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT
- and
- The White River (Big) Badlands of South Dakota
-
-
- by
- Ray H. Mattison
- and
- Robert A. Grom
-
- edited by
- Joanne W. Stockert
-
- [Illustration: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE]
-
- Bulletin No. 1
-
- Published 1968 by the
- Badlands Natural History Association
- Badlands National Monument
- Interior, South Dakota 57750
-
- Printed at Rapid City, South Dakota, U.S.A.
- By Espe Printing Company
- First Edition
- Library of Congress Catalog Number: 68-19055
-
-
-This booklet is published by the Badlands Natural History Association, a
-nonprofit corporation dedicated to assisting the National Park Service
-in its scientific, educational, historical, and interpretive activities
-at Badlands National Monument. Organized in April 1959, the association
-is incorporated under the laws of the State of South Dakota. It is
-recognized by the National Park Service, United States Department of the
-Interior, as an official cooperating organization. A list of mail-sales
-items handled by the association may be obtained free by sending a card
-or letter to the address shown on the title page.
-
-The Badlands Natural History Association wishes to thank the many local
-people who have contributed their know-how and resources in making this
-publication possible.
-
-
-
-
- CONTENTS
-
-
- Introduction 7
- Chronology of Badlands National Monument and the White River (Big)
- Badlands 9
- Early Indians and Explorers 11
- The Settlers Come 23
- Legislation for Park Establishment 27
- The Depression Years 37
- Early Development of the National Monument 43
- Mission 66 Development 59
-
-
- APPENDIX
- A Annual Visitor Use, 1938-1967 65
- B Custodians and Superintendents of Badlands National Monument 67
- C Picture Credits 69
- D Footnotes and References 71
- E Map of Badlands National Monument 79
-
-
-
-
- INTRODUCTION
-
-
-In 1951 the National Park Service (NPS) launched the concept of
-developing a documented history for each unit of the national park
-system. Known since 1984 as “park” histories, the studies were to be
-general in scope, spanning the history of each area with emphasis on
-park origin, legislation, visitor use, and all aspects of management.
-
-Although sporadic research on local area history was done by the NPS in
-the 1950’s and early 1960’s, comprehensive research studies that finally
-led to a park history for Badlands National Monument did not start until
-1964. In that year Ray H. Mattison, former Visitor Services Coordinator
-and Historian for the Midwest Region of the NPS, began the project by
-selecting some 300 pages of reference materials from the National
-Archives. Additional bibliographical materials were located in the
-Congressional Record, NPS historical files, and elsewhere. Former Chief
-Park Naturalist Robert A. Grom of Badlands National Monument did much in
-gathering photographs, maps, and historical data, and in writing
-additions and revising parts of the various drafts prepared by Mattison.
-By the end of 1965 a manuscript was completed, but publication was
-delayed. Mattison retired from the NPS in 1965 and Grom was transferred
-in May 1966.
-
-In 1967 more historical evidence came to light which resulted in the
-editing, updating, and expanding of the 1965 manuscript. Much of this
-work was done by Joanne W. Stockert, wife of the Chief Park Naturalist.
-Copies of all documents and references not found locally but which were
-used as bibliography in the final manuscript were obtained for the files
-or library of Badlands National Monument. For those who are interested
-in learning how this national monument has evolved to the present time,
-the Badlands Natural History Association has published this history with
-the hope that it will provide a basic source of historical information
-on Badlands National Monument.
-
- John W. Stockert
- Executive Secretary
- Badlands Natural History Association
-
-February 19, 1968
-
-
-
-
- CHRONOLOGY OF BADLANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT AND THE WHITE RIVER (BIG)
- BADLANDS OF SOUTH DAKOTA
-
-
- 1823—First known party of white men, led by fur-trader Jedediah Smith,
- passed through the White River Badlands.
- 1849—First scientific party, under Dr. John Evans, collected
- paleontological specimens from the Badlands.
- 1855—The General William Harney Expedition, en route from Fort Laramie
- to Fort Pierre, passed through the present national monument.
- 1868—Present western South Dakota reserved to the Sioux by Fort
- Laramie Treaty.
- 1874—Dr. O. C. Marsh, distinguished Yale scientist, and party visited
- Badlands region.
- 1890—Much of the Badlands restored to public domain to be opened
- eventually to white settlement.
- A band of Sioux, under Chief Big Foot, passed through the area of
- the present national monument en route to Wounded Knee, where
- many were killed in battle with the army.
- 1907—The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad built through
- Interior near southern boundary of area, The Chicago and North
- Western Railway constructed through Philip and Wall near
- northern boundary.
- 1909—The South Dakota Legislature petitioned Congress to set aside a
- township in the Badlands region for a national park.
- 1922—Senator Peter Norbeck introduced the first bill in Congress to
- make a portion of the Badlands a national park.
- 1929—Badlands National Monument, comprising some 50,830 acres,
- authorized by Congress.
- 1936—Law enacted authorizing enlargement of the proposed national
- monument to 250,000 acres by presidential proclamation.
- 1939—Badlands National Monument, comprising about 150,000 acres,
- established by presidential proclamation.
- 1952—Congress authorized reduction in size of national monument. Area
- reduced by about 27,000 acres.
- 1957—Area further reduced by approximately 11,000 acres, leaving the
- national monument with an official acreage of 111,529.82
- acres.
- 1959—Visitor center completed.
- Badlands National Monument dedicated by Secretary of the Interior
- Fred A. Seaton.
- 1963—Bison reintroduced to the Badlands.
- 1964—Bighorn reintroduced to the Badlands.
- Cedar Pass Lodge acquired by the National Park Service.
-
- [Illustration: Figure 1 LES MAUVAISES TERRES,
- NEBRASKA
-
- This is the earliest published view of the White River Badlands. The
- sketch was made in 1849 by Dr. John Evans when he was in the field
- with the Owen Geological Survey. The region at that time was a part
- of Nebraska Territory.]
-
-
-
-
- EARLY INDIANS AND EXPLORERS
-
-
-Little is known of the prehistory of the region which comprises Badlands
-National Monument. The time of man’s entry into the Badlands-Black Hills
-region is unknown. The oldest Indian site found in western South Dakota
-is in the Angostura Basin south of Hot Springs. Studies indicate it to
-be a little more than 7,000 years old. Evidence shows that these early
-people were big-game hunters who preyed upon mammoth, large bison, and
-other animals that lived in the lush post-glacial grasslands.[1]
-
-Firepits containing Indian artifacts have been found in the Pinnacles
-area of the national monument. Radiocarbon studies leave little doubt
-that hunters were already using this site by 900 A.D.[2] More
-archeological research will probably show that man hunted and made his
-home in the Badlands long before that date.[3]
-
-Since about 1000 AD. the Black Hills area has been occupied by a number
-of nomadic Indian tribes. Some of these subsisted primarily by hunting,
-while others lived on local food plants. These tribes probably belonged
-to the Caddoan, Athabascan, Kiowa, and Shoshonean linguistic groups.[4]
-
-During the 18th century, parties of Arikara from the Missouri River went
-on buffalo hunts as far west as the Black Hills. There they met with the
-Comanche, Arapaho, Kiowa, and Cheyenne at trading fairs where they
-acquired horses. The Arikara, in turn, traded horses with the Teton
-Sioux who had been slowly migrating south and westward since about 1670
-from the headwaters of the Mississippi River. Around 1775 the Oglala and
-Brule, tribes of the Teton Sioux, moved west of the Missouri River to
-occupy respectively the Bad River country (around the present town of
-Philip, S.D.) and the region along the White River south of the
-Badlands. Because of their move from a timbered area to a plains region,
-the Sioux underwent great adjustment. As the result of acquiring guns
-from the whites and horses from other tribes, the Sioux became primarily
-a nomadic people, dependent on buffalo for sustenance.[5]
-
-For more than a century prior to 1763, the upper Missouri Valley,
-including what is today Badlands National Monument, was under French
-control. Under terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1763 French possessions
-west of the Mississippi River were ceded to Spain. Spain returned the
-area, known as Louisiana, to France in 1800 in the secret Treaty of San
-Ildefonso.[6] In 1803 the entire region, which included all of the
-present states of Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota,
-plus parts of eight other states, was purchased by the United States
-from France for $15,000,000.
-
-The early French-Canadian trappers called the region, which includes the
-present day national monument, Les Mauvaises terres a traverser, which
-translated means “bad lands to travel across.” Other traders applied the
-term “bad lands” to this locality as well as to any section of the
-prairie country “where roads are difficult....” The Dakota Indians
-called the region Mako Sica (mako, land; sica, bad).[7]
-
-Father Pierre-Jean de Smet called the White River Mankizita-Watpa. This
-Indian word commonly means “white earth river,” or more literally,
-“smoking land river.” The priest attributed the name to the river water
-which he wrote was “impregnated with a whitish slime.”[8]
-
-Early American trappers and traders called the attention of the world to
-the unusual geological features and extensive fossil deposits of the
-Badlands along the White River. The earliest known description of the
-region, believed to be the White River Badlands, is that of James
-Clyman, a member of Jedediah Smith’s 11-man party, who passed through
-the area in 1823. Clyman described it as
-
- ... a tract of county whare no vegetation of any kind existed beeing
- worn into knobs and gullies and extremely uneven ... a loose grayish
- coloured soil verry soluble in water running thick as it could move of
- a pale whitish coular and remarkably adhesive ... there [came] on a
- misty rain while we were in this pile of ashes [bad-lands west of the
- South Fork of the Cheyenne River] and it loded down our horses feet
- (feet) in great lumps it looked a little remarkable that not a foot of
- level land could be found the narrow revines going in all manner of
- directions and the cobble mound[s] of a regular taper from top to
- bottom all of them of the percise same angle and the tops sharp ...
- the whole of this region is moveing to the Misourie River as fast as
- rain and thawing of Snow can carry it....[9]
-
-When Maximilian, Prince of Wied, returned to Fort Pierre in 1834 after
-making his historic journey up the Missouri with Charles Bodmer, William
-Laidlaw, the trader of the fort, gave him a description of the Badlands.
-The German prince wrote:
-
- ... I much regretted that I could not remain long enough to visit the
- interesting tract of the Mauvaises Terres, which is some days’ journey
- from hence. Mr. Laidlow [sic], who had been there in the winter, gave
- me a description of it. It is two days’ journey, he said, south-west
- of Fort Pierre, and forms, in the level prairie, an accumulation of
- hills of most remarkable forms, looking like fortresses, churches,
- villages and ruins, and doubtless consisting of the same sand-stone as
- the conformations near the Stone Walls. He further stated that the
- bighorn abounds in that tract.[10]
-
-Father de Smet visited the Badlands region in 1848. He described it as
-
- ... the most extraordinary of any I have met in my journeys through
- the wilderness.... Viewed at a distance, these lands exhibit the
- appearance of extensive villages and ancient castles, but under forms
- so extraordinary, and so capricious a style of architecture, that we
- might consider them as appertaining to some new world, or ages far
- remote.[11]
-
-The Jesuit noted further, “The industry of the settler will never
-succeed in cultivating and planting this fluctuating and sterile
-soil....” However, he believed that the fossil deposits in the region
-would be of interest to the geologist and the naturalist.[12]
-
- [Illustration: Figure 2 OREODONT SKELETON
-
- Oreodonts are the most common fossil mammals found in the Badlands.
- Several species of these now-extinct animals have been
- scientifically described.[13]]
-
-In the 1840’s the reports of fossil remains in the White River Badlands
-aroused the curiosity of scientific circles in the East. In the fall of
-1843(?) Alexander Culbertson, well-known fur trader of the American Fur
-Company, made a trip from Fort Pierre to Fort Laramie. Either on this
-particular trip or succeeding ones, he made a collection of fossils and
-bones in the Badlands.[14] This collection provided the basis for the
-first scientific description of a Badlands fossil. The description was
-written by Dr. Hiram A. Prout of St. Louis, published in 1846, and
-printed again in 1847 with greater detail. The paper described a
-lower-jaw fragment of a large rhinoceros-like animal which later was
-given the common name titanothere by Dr. Joseph Leidy in 1852. Another
-fossil from this same collection, a fragment of an ancestral camel, was
-also described in 1847 by Dr. Leidy, who in a few years became the
-authority on Badlands fossils and an outstanding paleontologist.[15] In
-the fall of 1847 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia became
-the first known institution to receive a collection of fossils from this
-region.[16]
-
-In 1848 another deposit to this institution, made by Culbertson’s
-father, Joseph, included “a new fossil genus of Mammalia, found near the
-‘Black Hills’....”[17] These deposits aroused such interest that in 1849
-United States Geologist David Dale Owen sent his assistant, Dr. John
-Evans, to the Badlands.[18]
-
-Dr. Evans, accompanied by a fellow geologist, “five Canadian travelers
-who were to be our muleteers and cooks, and finally an Indian guide and
-an interpreter,”[19] set out westward from Fort Pierre after traveling
-by steamboat from St. Louis. Following five days of overland travel they
-reached the Badlands. One of the party was a Frenchman, E. de Girardin,
-a soldier of fortune employed as an artist on the expedition. His story
-of the trip was published in 1864 in a French travel magazine, Le Tour
-du Monde. After climbing a hill about a hundred meters (about 330 feet)
-high, he beheld “the strangest and most incomprehensible view.”[20] (See
-Figure 4.)
-
- At the horizon, at the end of an immense plain and tinted rose by the
- reflection of the setting sun, a city in ruins appears to us, an
- immense city surrounded by walls and bulwarks, filled by a palace
- crowned with gigantic domes and monuments of the most fantastic and
- bizarre architecture. At intervals on a soil white as snow rise
- embattled chateaus of brick red, pyramids with their sharp-pointed
- summits topped with shapeless masses which seem to rock in the wind, a
- pillar of a hundred meters rises in the midst of this chaos of ruins
- like a gigantic lighthouse.[21]
-
-De Girardin was also impressed by the large deposits of fossil remains
-in the area. “The soil is formed here and there of a thick bed of
-petrified bones,” he wrote, “sometimes in a state perfectly preserved,
-sometimes broken and reduced to dust.” The party discovered “petrified
-turtles,” some of which were “admirably preserved and weighing up to 150
-pounds....” The expedition also found “a head of a rhinoceros equally
-petrified, and the jawbone of a dog or wolf of a special kind, furnished
-with all its teeth.” At places the scientists located “heaps of teeth
-and scraps of broken jawbones; ... bones and vertebrae of the oreodon,
-the mastdon [sic] and the elephant.” However, after exploring for three
-days in the region without having discovered “the elephants, the
-buffaloes, and the petrified men of which they had spoken to us so
-much,” the party began its journey back to Fort Pierre.[22]
-
-Dr. Evans himself was not only impressed by the scenic qualities of the
-Badlands but by the scientific importance of the region as well. He
-wrote:
-
- After leaving the locality on Sage Creek, affording the
- above-mentioned fossils, crossing that stream, and proceeding in the
- direction of White River, about twelve or fifteen miles, the formation
- of the Mauvaises Terres proper bursts into view, disclosing as here
- depicted, one of the most extraordinary and picturesque sights that
- can be found in the whole Missouri country.
-
- From the high prairies, that rise in the background, by a series of
- terraces or benches, towards the spurs of the Rocky Mountains, the
- traveller looks down into an extensive valley, that may be said to
- constitute a world of its own, and which appears to have been formed,
- partly by an extensive vertical fault, partly by the long-continued
- influence of the scooping action of denudation.
-
- The width of this valley may be about thirty miles, and its whole
- length about ninety, as it stretches away westwardly, towards the base
- of the gloomy and dark range of mountains known as the Black Hills.
- Its most depressed portion, three hundred feet below the general level
- of the surrounding country, is clothed with scanty grasses, and
- covered by a soil similar to that of the higher ground.
-
- To the surrounding country, however, the Mauvaises Terres present the
- most striking contrast. From the uniform, monotonous, open prairie,
- the traveller suddenly descends, one or two hundred feet, into a
- valley that looks as if it had sunk away from the surrounding world;
- leaving standing, all over it, thousands of abrupt, irregular,
- prismatic, and columnar masses, frequently capped with irregular
- pyramids, and stretching up to a height of from one to two hundred
- feet, or more.
-
- So thickly are these natural towers studded over the surface of this
- extraordinary region, that the traveller threads his way through deep,
- confined, labyrinthine passages, not unlike the narrow, irregular
- streets and lanes of some quaint old town of the European Continent.
- Viewed in the distance, indeed, these rocky piles, in their endless
- succession, assume the appearance of massive, artificial structures,
- decked out with all the accessories of buttress and turret, arched
- doorway and clustered shaft, pinnacle, and finial, and tapering spire.
-
- One might almost imagine oneself approaching some magnificent city of
- the dead, where the labour and the genius of forgotten nations had
- left behind them a multitude of monuments of art and skill.[23]
-
-Dr. Evans was equally awed by the rich paleontological deposits of the
-Badlands region. After describing the extreme heat of the region, he
-continued:
-
- At every step, objects of the highest interest present themselves.
- Embedded in the debris, lie strewn, in the greatest profusion, organic
- relics of extinct animals. All speak of a vast freshwater deposit of
- the early Tertiary Period, and disclose the former existence of most
- remarkable races, that roamed about in bygone ages high up in the
- Valley of the Missouri, towards the sources of its western
- tributaries; where now pastures the big-horned Ovis montana, the
- shaggy buffalo or American bison, and the elegant and
- slenderly-constructed antelope.
-
- Every specimen as yet brought from the Bad Lands, proves to be of
- species that became exterminated before the mammoth and mastodon
- lived, and differ in their specific character, not alone from all
- living animals, but also from all fossils obtained even from
- cotemporaneous [sic] geological formations elsewhere.[24]
-
-Dr. Evans drew a map (See Figure 3) of Mauvaises Terres (Bad Lands) and
-Dr. Joseph Leidy prepared a catalog as well as sketches of the most
-significant fossils the Owen Geological Survey Party found on its
-journey to the region.[25]
-
-In 1850 Spencer F. Baird of the Smithsonian Institution arranged for
-Thaddeus Culbertson, a younger brother of Alexander Culbertson, to visit
-the Badlands under the auspices of the Institution. Born in 1823 at
-Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, young Culbertson, a student at Princeton
-Theological Seminary, set out with his brother, Alexander, from
-Chambersburg in mid-February. The brothers left St. Louis by steamboat
-on March 19 and arrived at Fort Pierre May 4. With his brother supplying
-the equipment, Thaddeus and two others set out from the fur-trading
-establishment three days later. On May 11 they encamped at Sage Creek in
-the White River Badlands.[26]
-
- [Illustration: Figure 3 AN EARLY MAP OF THE
- WHITE RIVER BAD LANDS]
-
-Culbertson, too, was very much impressed by the Badlands as he
-approached them:
-
- The road now lay over hills which became more steep and frequent as we
- approached the Bad Lands. These occasionally appeared in the distance
- and never before did I see anything that so resembled a large city; so
- complete was this deception that I could point out the public
- buildings; one appeared to have a large dome which might be the town
- Hall; another would have a large angular, cone shape top, which would
- suggest the court house or some magnificent buildings for public
- purposes: then would appear a long row of palaces, great in number and
- superb in all their arrangements. Indeed the thought frequently
- occurred as we rode along that at a distance this portion of the
- grounds looked like a city of palaces—everything arranged upon the
- grandest scale and adapted for the habitation, not of pigmies such as
- now inhabit the earth, but of giants such as would be fit to rule over
- the immense animals whose remains are still found there.[27]
-
-Culbertson was also moved by the complete desolation of the Badlands:
-
- Fancy yourself on the hottest day in summer in the hottest spot of
- such a place without water—without an animal and scarce an insect
- astir—without a single flower to speak pleasant things to you and you
- will have some idea of the utter loneliness of the Bad Lands.[28]
-
-The young scientist was disappointed, however, with the fossils. Instead
-of finding well-preserved skeletons of different animals, he located
-only the imperfect remains of several turtles, a number of excellent
-teeth and jawbones, and several good skulls of animals.[29]
-
-After rejoining his brother at Fort Pierre, young Culbertson proceeded
-up the river to Fort Union. On his trip he collected not only fossils
-but skulls, skins, and skeletons of buffalo, grizzly bear, white wolf,
-prairie wolf, and other animals. He also collected plants along the
-Missouri. Surprisingly, the fossil remains Culbertson collected were
-declared by Baird as “an exceedingly interesting series of Mammalian and
-Reptilian species including many that had never been described.”[30]
-
-In poor health, young Culbertson died in late August 1850, soon after
-his return to Chambersburg.[31]
-
-In 1853 two geologists, Dr. F.V. Hayden and F.B. Meek, visited the
-Badlands region. Both were to receive national recognition later as
-distinguished scientists. They spent several days at Sage Creek, noted
-by travellers for the purgative qualities of its water. Both men and
-their horses experienced a weakening effect after drinking from the
-stream.[32]
-
-Brevet Brigadier-General William S. Harney’s expedition, in its punitive
-campaign against the Brule Sioux in 1855, crossed overland through a
-portion of the Badlands en route from Fort Laramie (old Ft. William) to
-Fort Pierre (old Fort Tecumseh) on the Missouri. Accompanying the
-expedition were Lt. G.K. Warren, U.S. topographical engineer, and Dr.
-Hayden who had visited the Badlands region two years earlier.[33]
-
- [Illustration: Figure 4 REMAINS OF THE FORT
- LARAMIE-FORT PIERRE TRAIL
-
- Here, just outside the most northern boundary of the present
- national monument, it is believed E. de Girardin made his poetic
- observations of the Badlands on the horizon, as recorded on page 14.
- Wagon-wheel ruts along the old trail—in the foreground—can still be
- traced for miles in unplowed terrain.]
-
-Warren was authorized to map the trail over which the expedition passed.
-This route, which crosses the western edge of Badlands National
-Monument, had been used since at least the early 1830’s primarily by
-trappers and traders to transport furs and supplies between the two
-forts. Fort Pierre was abandoned as a military post in early 1857 soon
-after the route was mapped, and the trail fell into disuse as a major
-overland thoroughfare.[34] Remains of this historic route can still be
-seen.
-
-Dr. Hayden and his party camped on Bear Creek, west of the present
-national monument, where Alexander Culbertson, Dr. Evans, and others had
-obtained their valuable collections in the 1840’s. Dr. Hayden wrote, “We
-spent five days at this locality, and with the mammalian remains already
-collected in other places, our carts were loaded to their utmost.”[35]
-Unlike his predecessors who had visited the region, Hayden was favorably
-impressed by the White River region. “Contrasted with most of the
-country on the upper Missouri, The White river valley is a paradise, and
-the Indians consider it one of the choice spots of earth.”[36]
-
-Hayden revisited the White River Badlands in 1857 and in the 1860’s. His
-records may be found in government reports and in several scientific
-publications.[37]
-
-Captain John B.S. Todd, a cousin of the wife of Abraham Lincoln and
-later governor of Dakota Territory, also accompanied the Harney
-Expedition of 1855 and was impressed by the scenic grandeur of the
-Badlands.[38] On October 12, the day the expedition broke camp at Ash
-Grove Spring (now known as Harney Spring) southeast of Sheep Mountain
-Table, he recorded in his journal:
-
- After leaving camp, we continued to ascend the gentle slope upon which
- it had been pitched, for nearly a mile, and on reaching the crest, the
- most superbly grand and beautiful sight burst upon our view, that my
- eye ever rested upon. Down for a thousand feet and more, the road
- abruptly wound into the valley below; while far away, on all sides,
- spread this magnificent panorama of mountain precipice and
- vale—solitary, grand, chaotic, as it came from the hands of Him “who
- doeth all things well.” What a scene for the painter, what a wonderous
- field for the Naturalist![39]
-
-Todd also described “the remains of turtle, petrified, of all sizes,
-shattered and perfect, some not larger than the crown of a hat, others
-of huge proportions....”[40]
-
-Beginning in 1870 other organizations began making important
-collections. Among these were the United States Geological Survey, Yale
-University, Princeton University, American Museum of Natural History,
-University of Nebraska, Carnegie Museum, University of South Dakota, and
-the South Dakota State School of Mines and Technology.[41]
-
-In 1874 the Badlands were visited by the distinguished paleontologist
-Dr. O.C. Marsh of Yale University and his party. At that time the
-Indians in the region were in a very ugly temper as a result of the
-discovery of gold in the Black Hills by the Custer Expedition.
-Guaranteed much of present northwestern Nebraska and all of South Dakota
-west of the Missouri by the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, they regarded
-white visitors to the western Dakota region as intruders. Accompanied by
-an army escort, Dr. Marsh and his party slipped into the reservation
-through the Red Cloud Agency (located along the banks of the White River
-near the present town of Crawford, Nebraska) at night without arousing
-the Indian sentinels and reached the fossil region. Hurriedly gathering
-and packing its specimens, the party returned to the agency less than 24
-hours before a war party scoured the region for “the Big Bone Chief.” At
-the agency, Chief Red Cloud informed Dr. Marsh of the manner in which
-the Indian Bureau was fleecing the Indians in their rations. Dr. Marsh
-carried this information to Washington, which resulted in a
-Congressional investigation of the agency.[42]
-
- [Illustration: Figure 5 MUSEUM OF GEOLOGY,
- SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY
-
- The finest exhibits of Badlands fossils are on display in this
- museum. It is open to the public without charge throughout the
- year.]
-
-Mr. John Bell Hatcher did much of the collecting for Dr. Marsh, under
-the auspices of the United States Geological Survey, and is considered
-to be one of the most successful and original of all collectors who have
-worked in the Badlands.[43] He is responsible for beginning the practice
-of collecting and preserving complete skeletons of fossilized
-animals.[44]
-
-While considerable collecting of fossils in the Badlands has been done
-by various organizations since 1870, it was conducted in a somewhat
-random manner at first. Since 1899 the South Dakota State School of
-Mines and Technology has sent students into the Badlands for brief field
-studies.[45] However, it was not until 1924 that a systematic means of
-collecting fossils in the Badlands was begun by a Princeton University
-professor, Glenn L. Jepsen, who was studying at the South Dakota State
-School of Mines and Technology. He organized the first School of Mines
-Badlands Expedition, which met with immediate success and laid the
-foundation for the present extensive paleontological collections of that
-school (See Figure 5).[46]
-
-For many years large herds of bison roamed the Badlands during the
-summer months. About 1861, the year that the Dakota Territory was
-established, a drought began and continued for three years. The buffalo
-which used the region as their summer range left during that period.
-After the passing of the drought years, the herds, which had been driven
-far to the west by hunters, returned only in small bands. For a time
-great herds of mountain sheep, elk, antelope, whitetail and mule deer
-continued to roam the area in large numbers. The elk wintered in the
-southern Black Hills and went down into the Badlands in early spring. In
-1877 residents of the Rapid City area and market hunters from the gold
-camps in the northern Black Hills killed large numbers, which ended the
-elk migration to the Badlands. Antelope as well as whitetail and mule
-deer were killed by market hunters and settlers. The mountain sheep was
-the last of the big game animals to disappear.[47]
-
- [Illustration: Figure 6
-
- Jim Hart of Scenic, South Dakota, displays a trophy of an Audubon
- Bighorn Sheep shot on Sheep Mountain in 1903 by Charley Jones. These
- animals were last recorded on Sheep Mountain Table about 1910 and
- are now extinct.[48]]
-
-Predatory animals such as coyotes, wolves, and black and grizzly bears
-were likewise common. Bears were exterminated early. It was during the
-second decade of this century that coyotes and wolves disappeared from
-the Badlands, largely as a result of the work of the Biological Survey
-in its predatory-animal extermination program.[49]
-
- [Illustration: Figure 7 GRAY WOLF
-
- Adult animals weigh between 70 and 120 pounds and are the largest of
- the wild dogs. They were last seen in the present Badlands National
- Monument around 1913.[50]]
-
-The region which comprises western Dakota was a part of the Great Sioux
-Reservation recognized as such by the Fort Laramie treaties of 1851 and
-1868. In the late nineteenth century the tide of white settlement had
-been steadily pushing westward. By an agreement on September 26, 1876,
-later formalized by U.S. Statute, the Black Hills region was opened to
-white settlement. An Act of Congress approved on March 2, 1889 (the same
-year South Dakota became a state), and proclaimed by President Harrison
-on February 10, 1890, restored to public domain the area between the
-White and Cheyenne Rivers. This included the present area of Badlands
-National Monument.[51]
-
-On December 24, 1890, after escaping from military surveillance at Camp
-Cheyenne on the Cheyenne River, Chief Big Foot and his band of
-Miniconjous Sioux fled through what is now Big Foot Pass in Badlands
-National Monument to the White River where they camped. When the Indians
-reached Pine Creek on December 28, they were intercepted by the army. In
-attempting to disarm them the next day, the military precipitated the
-infamous “Wounded Knee Massacre” of December 29, 1890, when more than
-150 Indians and 39 whites were killed. This was the last major clash
-between Indians and the United States Army.[52]
-
-The famous western artist Frederic Remington was attached to a scouting
-party which went into the Badlands in search of Big Foot and his band.
-The first camp Remington made with the soldiers was on Christmas night
-with the thermometer well below zero. In an article written for Harper’s
-Weekly, January 21, 1891, he described his trip into the region:
-
- It was twelve miles through the defiles of the Bad Lands to the blue
- ridge of the high mesa where the hostiles had lived. The trail was
- strewn with dead cattle, some of them having never been touched with a
- knife. Here and there a dead pony, ridden to a stand-still and left
- nerveless on the trail. No words of mine can describe these Bad Lands.
- They are somewhat as Dore pictured hell. One set of buttes, with cones
- and minarets, gives place in the next mile to natural freaks of a
- different variety, never dreamed of by mortal man. It is the action of
- water on clay; there are ashes or what looks like them. The painter’s
- whole palette is in one bluff.[53]
-
-
-
-
- THE SETTLERS COME
-
-
-White settlement of the Badlands region was slow. Suited for grazing,
-the region in the 1890’s was primarily the domain of cattlemen and
-sheepmen. At that time the region was surveyed by the Government.[54]
-
- [Illustration: Figure 8 OLD INTERIOR, 1906
-
- Settled in about 1881, the town was known as Black until the name
- was changed around 1895. It was located about two miles southeast of
- the present town of Interior. In 1907, old Interior was abandoned in
- favor of the present townsite when the Milwaukee Road was
- built.[55]]
-
-Bruce Siberts, a Dakota cowboy, was in the Badlands several times during
-the early 1890’s. He stated:
-
- The big pasture west of the Missouri that the Sioux had turned over to
- Uncle Sam had few ranchers in it when I went there in 1890, but within
- another year or so there were all kinds of livestock roaming over
- it.[56]
-
-Siberts’ acquaintance with the Badlands was the result of his experience
-with cattle thieves who “holed up” there. The outlaws, after stealing
-Siberts’ cattle, drove them to the Badlands.
-
-Siberts started out in pursuit. During a week’s stay in the Badlands, he
-saw thousands of head of stock, many of which were unbranded. Unable to
-recover his stolen cattle, he returned to his home on Plum Creek, a
-tributary of the Cheyenne River. He obtained a companion and went back
-to the Badlands. There the two men built several horse traps, captured a
-number of unbranded horses, branded them, and later sold the horses for
-$600.[57] Siberts returned alone to the region the following year to
-obtain more unbranded horses, but lost his horses to outlaws. As a
-result he was left afoot many miles from home. Siberts succeeded in
-taking the horse of Bill Newsom, head of a group of cattle rustlers, and
-made his way to a railroad town in Nebraska. He returned to South Dakota
-by rail.[58]
-
- [Illustration: Figure 9 FIRST TRAIN PENETRATING
- SOUTH DAKOTA BADLANDS, 1907]
-
-Isolated from natural transportation routes, few settlers moved into the
-region until the coming of railroads. In 1907 the Chicago and North
-Western Railway Company built its line from Pierre through Philip and
-Wall to Rapid City. During the same year, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
-Paul Railroad Company (now known as the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and
-Pacific Railroad Company or, simply, the Milwaukee Road) completed its
-line from Chamberlain to Rapid City along the White River through Kadoka
-and Interior.[59]
-
-There was considerable homestead activity in 1906 under the original
-homestead law of 1862, despite the fact that the 160-acre farm unit was
-inadequate in the region. Leonel Jensen, a long-time resident in the
-vicinity of the Badlands, stated that when his father came to the region
-in May 1906 there were few homestead buildings. In the fall of that year
-there was a homestead shack on practically every quarter-section of
-land, because many settlers had anticipated the coming of the
-railroads.[60] In 1912 the period to “prove up” on the lands was
-liberalized by changing the time of residence from five to three years.
-The Enlarged Homestead Act of 1909 was applied to South Dakota by
-Congress in 1915, enabling settlers to acquire 320 acres instead of
-160.[61]
-
-The homestead laws were liberalized again in 1916 by the enactment of
-the Stock-Raising Homestead Act. This provided for 640-acre homesteads
-on lands officially designated as nonirrigable grazing lands.[63]
-
- [Illustration: Figure 10 A BADLANDS HOMESTEAD
-
- Newly plowed sod marks the beginning of a farm in 1911 northwest of
- Interior near the badlands wall.]
-
- [Illustration: Figure 11 GOOD GIRLS IN BAD
- LANDS S. D.
-
- Some Badlands homesteaders lived first in dugouts similar to the one
- belonging to the Josh Sullivan family as shown on this postcard
- mailed in 1909. It was located one half mile south of the present
- national monument boundary just off the Cedar Pass-Interior
- highway.[62]]
-
- [Illustration: Figure 12
-
- Lumber to build the Louis J. Jensen home, located just west of the
- Badlands, was hauled by rail from the Black Hills to Wall, South
- Dakota. Taken in 1908, this photograph represents a typical house of
- the Badlands homesteading era.[68]]
-
-From 1900 to 1905 the population in western South Dakota increased from
-43,782 to 57,575; by 1910 it was 137,687.[64] From 1910 to 1930 it
-continued to increase, but at a slower pace. In the decade following
-1910 the population of Pennington County increased slightly from 12,453
-to 12,720; by 1930 it was 20,079. In Jackson County, which contained no
-urban centers, the increase was much smaller. From 1920 to 1930 (no
-figures are available for 1910 to 1920) the population went from 2,472
-to 2,636.[65] For a comparison with recent trends, the populations of
-Jackson and Pennington counties in 1960 were 1,985 and 58,195
-respectively.[66] (The western or 87 percent of the present Badlands
-National Monument is located in Pennington County; the eastern section
-is in Jackson County.)
-
-Between 1910 and 1920, increasing amounts of land in western South
-Dakota passed out of the public domain and into private ownership.
-Encouraged by the high prices for farm and ranch products resulting from
-World War I, many farmers and ranchers took advantage of the liberalized
-homestead acts. By 1922 less than half of the land which was later
-included in Badlands National Monument was publicly owned.[67]
-
-
-
-
- LEGISLATION FOR PARK ESTABLISHMENT
-
-
-Stimulated in part by various individuals and groups, the South Dakota
-Legislature in 1909 petitioned the federal government to establish a
-township of Badlands as a national park. As read before both houses of
-Congress on March 16, 1909, the petition stated in part:
-
- Whereas there is a small section of country about the headwaters of
- the White River in South Dakota where nature has carved the surface of
- the earth into most unique and interesting forms, and has exposed to
- an extent perhaps not elsewhere found; and
-
- Whereas this formation is so unique, picturesque, and valuable for the
- purpose of study that a portion of it should be retained in its native
- state....[69]
-
-However, no legislation was introduced on the proposal until more than a
-decade later.
-
-A 1919 report by the U.S. Forest Service recommended that the Badlands
-area be set aside as a national park. The report also recorded
-considerable tourist travel to the Badlands. “The travel this year was
-several hundred times greater than in any former year....” Many visitors
-came over state route 40 (the Washington Highway) which connects the
-towns of Interior and Scenic with Rapid City. This road was under
-construction in 1919 and followed, more or less, the Chicago, Milwaukee
-and St. Paul Railroad. Visitors also came on passenger trains.[70]
-
-However, accessibility to the scenic sections of the Badlands Wall from
-the Washington Highway were already being closed in 1919 by the
-construction of fences, except for a few low passes in the wall where
-side roads had been constructed. The Washington Highway and the railroad
-are both located two to six miles from the most picturesque Badlands
-features. The same report recommended that a road be built “along the
-course of the scenic points of interest” and that campgrounds should be
-constructed “at well chosen camp sites.”[71] (Such a road was completed
-16 years later by the State of South Dakota; see page 43).
-
-While other individuals and organizations played an important part in
-the establishment of Badlands National Monument, Senator Peter Norbeck
-deserves more credit than any other legislator. Norbeck was born on a
-farm in Clay County in southeastern South Dakota, August 27, 1870, and
-was the son of a member of the 1871 Dakota Territorial Legislature. His
-public career began when he was elected to the state senate in 1908 and
-he served there until 1915. In 1914 Norbeck was voted
-lieutenant-governor of the state, and was elected governor in 1916 and
-1918. His achievements as governor were many, including the founding of
-a state-enterprise program designed to help farmers. Another of his
-great accomplishments was the establishment of Custer State Park.
-
-In 1920 Norbeck was elected to the United States Senate where he served
-continuously until his death in 1936. Although his chief interest was in
-farm-relief legislation, he was instrumental in passing the Migratory
-Bird Act of 1929 and in securing federal funds for the carving of Mount
-Rushmore National Memorial.[72]
-
-South Dakota’s congressmen, William Williamson from Oacoma and Charles
-A. Christopherson from Sioux Falls, assisted Norbeck by their work in
-the U.S. House of Representatives. Christopherson’s services in the
-House began in 1919, Williamson’s in 1921.[73]
-
- [Illustration: Figure 13 EARLY ROAD THROUGH
- CEDAR PASS, 1908 or earlier]
-
-On May 2, 1922, during the second session of the 67th Congress, Senator
-Norbeck introduced the first bill (S. 3541) for making the Badlands area
-a national park. Entitled “A bill to establish the Wonderland National
-Park in the State of South Dakota,” it proposed to set aside and
-withdraw from entry “all public lands lying and being within townships
-two and three south, ranges fifteen and sixteen east of the Black Hills
-meridian, and township three south, ranges seventeen, eighteen, and
-nineteen east of the Black Hills meridian.”[74] The proposal provided
-that the Secretary of the Interior might add to the park from time to
-time any lands which may be donated to the United States for such
-purposes. It also stated that the Secretary of the Interior may
-authorize exchange of non-federal lands in the park for certain public
-lands of equal value outside the park. Finally, the bill provided that a
-sum not exceeding $5,000 annually be appropriated by Congress for the
-maintenance and improvement of the park, if the State of South Dakota
-made an equal contribution. After the bill was read, it was referred to
-the Committee of Public Lands and Surveys.[75]
-
-On the same day, Congressman Williamson introduced a bill (H.R. 11514)
-in the House of Representatives, identical to the first one submitted by
-Norbeck in the Senate. This bill was referred to the Committee on the
-Public Lands and ordered to be printed.[76] No further action was taken
-on either the Norbeck or Williamson bills in the 67th Congress.
-
-However, in October 1922 President Harding issued an executive order
-temporarily withdrawing all public lands in the seven townships to be
-included in the proposed park for the purpose of classifying them
-“pending enactment of appropriate legislation.”[77] The total area
-within the seven townships was about 161,000 acres, of which 35,410 were
-classified as vacant.[78]
-
-On March 3, 1923, Congressmen Christopherson and Williamson presented
-memorials from “the Legislature of the State of South Dakota urging
-Congress to set aside the Bad Lands as a national park....”[79]
-
-In December 1923, in the 68th Congress, Williamson again introduced a
-bill (H.R. 2810) to establish Wonderland National Park. This proposal
-was identical to the one he and Norbeck introduced in the preceding
-Congress.[80] Like the earlier bill it, too, died in committee.
-
-If the Norbeck papers, now at the University of South Dakota, are any
-indication of the public support the Senator received for his park
-proposal, only a few people in the early 1920’s shared his views.
-Attorney General Byron S. Payne of South Dakota, Professor W.C.
-Toepelman of the University of South Dakota Geology Department, and W.H.
-Tompkins of the U.S. Land Office in Rapid City, all endorsed the
-Wonderland National Park proposal.[81] However, at that time the
-highways were relatively undeveloped. The automobile industry and
-tourism were both in their infancies. It was to take nearly another
-decade to gain the support of local and state chambers of commerce and
-other promotional groups for national parks and monuments.
-
-It appears that the National Park Service did not give Norbeck
-encouragement for his idea of a national park in the Badlands. In a
-letter to a constituent in May 1924, the Senator wrote:
-
- ... regarding the Bad Lands National Park, [I] will state that the
- Park Service here will not approve a bill of that kind,—and therefore,
- we can not secure the legislation. They are, however, willing to
- approve the plan of having it designated by the President as a
- “National Monument”. In practice, this means nearly the same thing, so
- Congressman Williamson and I have come to an agreement that we are
- going to accept that plan and work it out that way.[82]
-
-Nevertheless, Norbeck continued to work for a national park instead of a
-national monument.
-
-To insure that he would include the most scenic parts of the region in
-the proposed park, Norbeck made frequent trips there. In answer to a
-constituent’s letter, he wrote in November 1927, “I have visited the Bad
-Lands every year for sixteen years. A year ago I spent four or five days
-in them and this year I have made five trips into that area.”[84] During
-1927 a number of eastern newspapers carried photographs of the Badlands
-in their Sunday photo sections.[85]
-
- [Illustration: Figure 14 VAMPIRE PEAK, 1930’s
-
- Located near the present national monument visitor center, the peak
- has since lost its spires to erosion. According to local tradition
- the presence of bats around the formation caused J.I. Peterkin, a
- traveling artist, to give it this name around 1915.[83]]
-
-In the late 1920’s Badlands visitors who arrived from the east via
-Kadoka or Cottonwood probably used Cedar Pass. The narrow and
-precipitous route through Cedar Pass was aptly described by one of those
-early visitors:
-
- The passes become more crooked and the grades more steep. The road is
- bordered by profuse scrub cedar trees. There is a thrill in that
- drive! At first it looks dangerous, but the danger seems to minimize
- as we approach each more steep and more crooked and more narrow
- section. By taking it slowly the risk is small.[86]
-
-The route passed the new Cedar Pass Camp (now Cedar Pass Lodge) and took
-visitors to the railroad town of Interior where they may have spent some
-time at Palmer’s Curio shop and at Henry Thompson’s souvenir stand which
-he called “The Wonderland.” From Interior visitors traveled west over
-the Washington Highway to the railroad town of Scenic. In the late
-1920’s the Museum Filling Station in Scenic was widely known for its
-collection of Badlands fossils and Indian artifacts. They also provided
-guide services to visitors desiring to see Badlands features located off
-the road. Rapid City was reached by traveling northwest over 45 miles of
-good dirt road—except during rains.[87]
-
-Support for the park proposal grew in the late 1920’s. In October 1927
-the Wonderland Hiway Association, in a letter to Senator Norbeck, wrote:
-
- At a meeting of the Wonderland Hiway Association, an orgization [sic]
- comprising the business men and local residenters [sic] of the Towns
- through the Bad Lands, It was resolved; That the Association would ask
- and petition the State Hiway Commission ... for a State Hiway,
- Starting from Kadoka, West over Cedar Pass to Interior, S. Dak. West
- through The Bad Lands to Scenic over Hiway #40 and from Scenic to
- Hermosa, S. Dak., Providing a sutable [sic] location can be found.[88]
-
-The State Highway Commission gave the proposal its wholehearted
-support.[89]
-
-The National Park Service, however, continued to oppose the area as a
-national park on two grounds. For one thing much of the land was in
-private ownership. Senator Norbeck explained in a 1927 letter:
-
- The Park program is not as easy as it seems on account of so much of
- the land having gone into Private ownership. The Federal Government
- will not purchase land for park purposes. They never have. The State
- must and that will come slow.[90]
-
-In the second place, the National Park Service believed that the area
-was more suitable as a national monument. The Senator continued in the
-same letter:
-
- The Park Service is opposed to making it a National Park as they try
- to limit the Parks to the areas that are principally recreational.
- They would favor a plan to make the Bad Lands a “National
- Monument.”[91]
-
-Despite the objections of the Service to the Senator’s park proposal,
-Norbeck’s continued desire for a national park in the Badlands was
-stated in a letter written in November 1927 to Hubert Work, Secretary of
-the Interior:
-
- The Congressional delegation from this state will be united in an
- effort to create a Bad Lands National Park in South Dakota. If this is
- impossible they will desire to have certain areas set aside as
- national monuments.[92]
-
-In April 1928 Norbeck wrote Representative Williamson asking him to help
-draft a bill for the park. The first part of the bill, Norbeck
-indicated, would “include the Badlands Wall proper, from a point about 4
-miles east of Interior to a point 12 or 14 miles southwest of Wall.”[93]
-The establishment of the park would be contingent on the building of a
-road by the State through the proposed area and the State acquiring 90
-percent of the privately owned lands within it. The second part of the
-bill would authorize a national monument which would include Sheep
-Mountain and the surrounding area, some six to seven miles southwest of
-Scenic. The authorization of this area would be conditional upon the
-construction of a highway from Scenic to the Pine Ridge Indian
-Reservation and acquisition of the lands within the proposed monument by
-the State of South Dakota. The third portion of the bill would authorize
-the abandonment of Wind Cave National Park![94]
-
-The bills as finally presented to Congress by Norbeck and Williamson
-were somewhat different from the one which the Senator planned.
-
-During the first session of the 70th Congress, Norbeck and Williamson
-introduced identical legislation in their respective houses on May 8,
-1928, to set aside the Badlands as a national park. Norbeck introduced
-S. 4385, “A Bill To establish Teton National Park in the State of South
-Dakota....” The bill authorized the Secretary of the Interior, through
-negotiation, to exchange privately owned lands within the proposed park
-for public lands of equal value outside. The bill contained a provision
-that when 90 percent of the privately owned lands within the proposed
-area had been acquired without expense to the federal treasury and
-transferred to the government for park purposes, the park would be set
-aside for the people, “... Provided, That the State of South Dakota
-shall have first constructed” approximately 40 miles of suitable road to
-specified points inside and outside the proposed park.[95]
-
- [Illustration: Figure 15 SENATOR PETER NORBECK
- (1870-1936)]
-
-Norbeck’s bill was referred to the Committee on Public Lands and
-Surveys. On May 19 the bill was reported out without amendment. The
-accompanying report (No. 1246) gave a strong endorsement to the
-proposal.[96] On May 23, the bill was considered as in Committee of the
-Whole and passed the Senate.[97]
-
-However, in the House where Williamson had introduced an identical bill
-(H.R. 13618), the park proposal ran into trouble. In a circular letter
-dated November 7, 1928, the National Parks Association claimed that the
-proposed Teton National Park had not been examined for standards by the
-National Park Service before the Senate acted on the proposal and that
-the bill was hurried through that body. Asserting that the proposed area
-was reported below standard by the National Park Service, the
-association charged:
-
- Neither of these Senators [Norbeck and Nye], nor the Public Lands
- Committee which reported the bill and resolution, nor the Senate
- sessions which carelessly passed them, discussed the national aspects
- of this legislation. They did not consider the plan and standards of
- the national system which Congress had been building unit by unit,
- each painstakingly chosen, since 1872. They ignored the half century
- Congressional custom of awaiting the report of the Interior
- Department, to which Congress had entrusted the System’s shaping from
- the beginning. They ignored the American people’s enthusiastic
- interest in the plan and purpose of this unique world-famous
- institution, and its insistence in recent years upon park selection by
- the expert National Park Service....
-
- Thoughtlessness, apparently, but in practice this amounts to localism
- defying national aspirations. It seriously threatens national park
- standards.[98]
-
- [Illustration: Figure 16 BEN MILLARD (1872-1956)]
-
-In a letter to Robert S. Yard, Executive Secretary of the association,
-Senator Norbeck accused the association of sending out a misleading
-report:
-
- You criticise me for introducing and securing action in the Senate on
- a bill fifteen days after it was introduced and especially in view of
- the fact that it had not been investigated by the National Park
- Service.
-
- You could truthfully have said that this legislation has been pending
- for a great many years—at least five years.
-
- You could also have said that I have been trying all these years to
- get the Park Service to investigate the proposed area.
-
- You could also have added that the Government land in this area was
- withdrawn by Presidential Proclamation many years ago in anticipation
- of park legislation. Why carry the idea that it was all a fifteen day
- affair when it is all of five years? It would be a hard rule to apply
- that the failure of the Park Service to investigate an important
- project should preclude a member of Congress from taking any action
- whatever....
-
- You also state that the project has been investigated by the Park
- Service and reported adversely. It is an astonishing fact that the
- knowledge of such reports should be withheld from me. Therefore, I
- doubt very much that any report has been made. I therefore wired the
- Park Service, asking who made the report and when. I have no
- response.[99]
-
-Acting Director Arthur E. Demaray of the National Park Service,
-meanwhile, wrote Norbeck advising him that the Service had never
-prepared an official report on the park proposal and that the statement
-by the association that the proposed park was “reported below standard
-by the National Park Service” was without authority.[100]
-
-In the House of Representatives where the proposal was considered in the
-second session, the bill (S. 4385) underwent substantial revision. After
-being considered by the Committee on the Public Lands, it was reported
-out with amendments on February 19, 1929.[101] The revised bill changed
-the boundary of the proposed area, reducing it from 69,120 acres to
-about 50,760 acres[102] (50,830 acres according to another source[103]).
-The name was changed from Teton National Park to Badlands National
-Monument. It modified the requirements for the road which the state had
-to construct from 40 miles to 30 miles of total length. The requirement
-that 90 percent of the privately owned lands had to be acquired before
-the park could be established was dropped. Instead, it was now at the
-discretion of the Secretary of the Interior to decide when enough
-privately owned lands within the proposed boundary had been purchased so
-that the area could be proclaimed a national monument by the President.
-As before, the bill stipulated that the lands would have to be acquired
-without cost to the federal treasury. The amended bill had a new
-provision that the Department of the Interior could grant hotel and
-lodge franchises in advance of the fulfillment of the conditions.[104]
-
-The amended bill was considered by the Committee of the Whole House on
-February 25, six days after the Committee on the Public Lands had acted
-on it. Two additional amendments were offered on the floor of the House
-and were accepted. The idea that the Secretary of the Interior could
-decide when enough privately owned land had been purchased so that the
-area could be proclaimed as a national monument was dropped in favor of
-requiring all privately owned land within the proposed boundary be
-purchased before the area could be established. The provision giving the
-Department of the Interior authority to grant franchises in advance of
-the establishment of the national monument was also deleted. This
-amended form passed the House of Representatives on the same day,
-February 25.[105]
-
-When the House act was referred to the Senate on the next day, Norbeck
-asked his colleagues not to concur with the amended proposal. He asked
-instead that the modified bill be considered in a conference committee
-of the House and Senate.[106] On March 2, the conference committee
-recommended that the two amendments that were attached to the bill on
-the floor of the House on February 25 be dropped, returning the bill to
-the form it had when it was originally reported out on February 19.[107]
-
-On the same day, March 2, the final bill was passed by both houses.[108]
-Known as Public Law No. 1021, the act authorizing Badlands National
-Monument was approved by President Calvin Coolidge on March 4, 1929. The
-signing of the act took place on the last day of Coolidge’s term as
-President of the United States.[109]
-
-The area authorized under this act (45 Stat. 1553) included 50,830.40
-acres; of this amount, 39,893.85 acres were in the public domain. The
-remainder was state land or privately owned land.[110]
-
-It is interesting to note that Senator Norbeck introduced a new bill (S.
-5779) to establish Badlands National Monument on February 11, 1929. It
-was identical with the House amendments proposed for S. 4385 which were
-later reported out by the Committee on the Public Lands on February 19.
-The new bill, after being referred to the Committee on Public Lands and
-Surveys, was returned on February 20 with Senate Report 1842.[111]
-Meanwhile, Williamson introduced H. 17102 in the House, which was
-identical to S. 5779; it was referred to the Committee on the Public
-Lands.[112] Both of these bills died without further consideration.
-
- [Illustration: Figure 17 THE PINNACLES
- CONCESSION
-
- Operating since about 1935, this development was run on a seasonal
- basis. It offered summer visitors a few accommodations, souvenirs,
- refreshments, and gasoline until abandoned in 1950. The buildings
- were removed shortly afterward.[118]]
-
-
-
-
- THE DEPRESSION YEARS
-
-
-Among local persons who worked hard toward the establishment of Badlands
-National Monument after it was authorized in 1929 were Ben H. Millard,
-the original owner of Cedar Pass Lodge; A.G. Granger of Kadoka; Leonel
-Jensen, local rancher; Ted E. Hustead, owner and operator of the
-well-known Wall Drug Store; and Dr. G.W. Mills of Wall.[113]
-
-Of these individuals, Mr. Millard made the greatest contribution to the
-establishment and development of the national monument. Born September
-15, 1872, in Minnesota, he moved to South Dakota in 1893 with his
-parents. Millard entered the banking business in Sanborn County in 1899.
-In 1917 he sold his banking interests and entered the State of South
-Dakota Banking Department. On an assignment to Philip, South Dakota,
-Millard first saw the Badlands and became interested in them. He left
-the Banking Department and moved into the Badlands in 1927, homesteading
-below Cedar Pass on the present site of Cedar Pass Lodge, which he later
-built and operated.[114]
-
-Millard worked closely with Senator Norbeck on development plans for the
-proposed Badlands National Monument. From September 1934 through July
-1936, he was employed as a local Resettlement Administration project
-manager. In this capacity he was responsible for federal acquisition of
-private lands, most of which later became part of the national monument
-after it was established in 1939. The alignment of the first Badlands
-road, alternate U.S. 16, was largely a result of his ideas. In 1931 he
-selected what he believed to be the most scenic route, and staked it out
-with the aid of his employee, E.N. “Curley” Nelson (who returned to the
-Badlands in 1964 to become the first concessioner of Cedar Pass Lodge).
-Millard and his sister, Mrs. Clara Jennings, and later his son, Herbert,
-operated the Pinnacles concession from about 1935 to 1950.[115] Three
-important parcels of land were donated by Millard to the NPS in 1941,
-1946, and 1955 for inclusion in Badlands National Monument.[116] Millard
-died at Cedar Pass Lodge in March 1956.
-
-In special ceremonies on June 28, 1957, Millard Ridge, a prominent
-portion of the Badlands wall six-tenths of a mile long just east of
-Cedar Pass, was named and dedicated to his memory.[117]
-
-In 1929 western South Dakota, in common with most of the farm belt, had
-been suffering almost a decade from the deflation which followed World
-War I. Both farmers and ranchers had been unable to fulfill obligations
-assumed during an earlier period of high prices. Many of the banks of
-the state were forced to close.[119]
-
-With the beginning of the Great Depression in the fall of 1929,
-conditions became increasingly worse. A combination of disasters which
-included grasshopper infestations, crop failures, and drought struck the
-country. The south central and western counties of the state were most
-severely affected by these disasters.[120]
-
-Several government programs on both the federal and state levels were
-authorized to assist those in need. The NPS made use of a number of
-these programs in various ways during the 1930’s.
-
-In November 1934, NPS Director Arno B. Cammerer recommended to Secretary
-of the Interior Harold L. Ickes that additional area be approved for
-inclusion in the proposed Badlands National Monument. He contended that
-the proposed additions, which included a portion of Sheep Mountain, were
-as outstanding as the area originally authorized by Congress in 1929.
-Wildlife problems and administrative difficulties of the originally
-proposed area would be lessened by the change in boundary.[121]
-
-In order to implement the proposed boundary change Mr. Cammerer
-recommended (1) that the President should be asked to issue an Executive
-Order withdrawing all public lands involved; (2) that all privately
-owned lands be acquired through an existing federal government relief
-program; and (3) that the next session of Congress be asked to establish
-the Badlands National Monument with the boundaries now recommended.[122]
-
-The Secretary of the Interior approved the proposal for the boundary
-extension and in the same month President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered
-that all unreserved and unappropriated public lands in Pennington,
-Jackson, Fall River, and Custer Counties be
-
- temporarily withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, or entry, for
- classification and use as a grazing project pursuant to the
- submarginal land program of the Federal Emergency Relief
- Administration.[123]
-
-By January 1, 1935, the NPS had already obtained options for 23,000
-acres from private land owners living within the proposed boundary
-extension area. This work was being done under the auspices of the Land
-Program section of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
-which had been authorized by Congress in 1933.[124]
-
-Early in April 1935, the NPS completed the “Final Report on the Badlands
-National Monument Extension Project, South Dakota R-1.” The report
-included both the area previously authorized under Public Law 1021 and
-the proposed extension. The area, to be known as the Badlands
-Recreational Demonstration Project, would include 119,557.88 acres, of
-which 72,316.22 were privately owned. The proposed boundary extension
-received the support of Governor Tom Berry, Senator Norbeck, President
-C.C. O’Harra of the South Dakota School of Mines, and a number of
-prominent geologists, naturalists, educators, and others.[125]
-
-In a letter to Harry L. Hopkins, FERA Administrator, on April 15, 1935,
-Acting Secretary of the Interior T.A. Walters wrote:
-
- I hereby recommend for purchase certain lands for a project known as
- the Badlands National Monument Extension in Jackson, Pennington,
- Washington and Washabaugh Counties, South Dakota, proposed by the
- National Park Service of this Department for the conservation and
- development of the natural resources of the United States, within the
- meaning of Section 202 of Title II of the National Industrial Recovery
- Act, pursuant to which funds have been allotted and transferred to the
- Land Program, Federal Emergency Relief Administration.[126]
-
-Secretary Walters further stated that this project came within the
-classification of lands as stated in a memorandum to him dated July 16,
-1934. In it the Director of the Land Program said:
-
- Demonstration Recreational Projects: These include projects in which
- the land to be purchased is to be used primarily for recreational
- purposes, as submitted by the National Park Service, Department of the
- Interior.[127]
-
-The Secretary of the Interior recommended that the Badlands National
-Monument Extension be accepted as a Demonstration Recreational Project
-of the Land Program, FERA. The project was approved and adopted by the
-Land Program. The NPS expected that the cost of all the lands considered
-would not average more than $2.66 per acre.[128]
-
-Meanwhile, President Roosevelt, by a series of executive orders, created
-the Resettlement Administration, an independent agency, and transferred
-to it the land and related activities of the FERA. The Resettlement
-Administration operated until the end of 1936 when its powers,
-functions, and duties were transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture.
-Later, the name “Resettlement Administration” was changed to the Farm
-Security Administration.[129]
-
-The work of appraising, securing options on, and purchasing private
-lands, begun under the submarginal land program of the FERA, continued
-under the Resettlement Administration.
-
-In a 1935 letter to Assistant NPS Director Conrad L. Wirth, Senator
-Norbeck pointed out some of the problems and drawbacks of the land
-acquisition program by writing:
-
- The land varies a great deal in quality, and the poor lands are being
- obtained for the scheduled price, but the good lands are not.
-
-He went on to say that
-
- A very large percentage of this land, maybe thirty to fifty per cent,
- is on the tax delinquency list, with about four years of taxes. The
- price offered is less than the taxes held against the land, and the
- owner is not anxious to sell if he cannot get a nickel out of it....
-
- Considerable of these lands, however, have already been abandoned by
- the owner on account of the amount of taxes due.[130]
-
-Counties were reluctant to sell land to the federal government because
-this would mean withdrawal from the tax lists, thus reducing the
-counties’ incomes. Norbeck recommended that the federal government pay
-more for the land by a “boost of one dollar an acre....”[131] Meetings
-were being held in various parts of the region to protest the low prices
-being offered.[132]
-
-The desperate situation of the times was expressed well in a letter
-dated September 2, 1935, from a local rancher’s wife who wrote:
-
- After 6 years [of] crop failures on the so called submarginal land of
- Western South Dakota we are facing financial disaster unless we sell
- our land to the government.[133]
-
- [Illustration: Figure 18 CEDAR PASS WINTER
- WONDERLAND]
-
-During the same month, the average price being offered per acre was
-$2.85.[134]
-
-To gain Congressional approval for the boundary extension of the
-proposed Badlands National Monument, the proponents secured the
-attachment of a rider to the Taylor Grazing Bill revision authorizing
-the enlargement. The grazing bill was vetoed in 1935 although there was
-no opposition to the rider.[135]
-
-The bill was reintroduced the following year and was passed. Approved
-June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1979), the law authorized the President to round
-out the authorized national monument boundary by proclamation within
-five years and stipulated that the entire area could not exceed 250,000
-acres. Lands to be included must be “adjacent or contiguous thereto, ...
-including, but not being restricted to, lands designated as submarginal
-by the Resettlement Administration....”[136] This law gave the NPS
-sufficient flexibility in fixing a suitable boundary.
-
-Norbeck worked tirelessly in promoting every aspect of the area’s
-development until his death in December 1936. He actively participated
-in securing aid from various governmental relief agencies for the land
-acquisition program of the area, and for building roads, erecting
-buildings, and other purposes.[137]
-
-As early as February 1935 Governor Tom Berry of South Dakota urged
-Secretary Ickes to establish the national monument formally through a
-presidential proclamation. He pointed out that the basic conditions of
-Public Law 1021 had been met: (1) a 30-mile highway, built at a cost of
-approximately $320,000, starting at Interior and going over Big Foot
-Pass and on to Sage Creek, was completed in 1935 by the state and
-approved by the NPS; (2) the state had acquired such privately owned
-lands within the area as were required by the Secretary of the
-Interior.[138]
-
-However, NPS Director Cammerer deferred making such a recommendation
-until some 9,780 acres of state lands, located within the authorized
-national monument boundary, had been transferred to the Service.[139]
-
-Also, it was not until three years later, in 1938, that the United
-States formally accepted title to 1,395.79 acres of land donated by the
-trustees of the Custer State Park board who acted as purchasing agents
-for the State of South Dakota. Senator Norbeck had been a member of this
-board. The land was purchased from private owners with funds authorized
-by the state legislature for the expressed purpose of fulfilling partial
-requirements of Public Law 1021. Cost to the state was approximately
-$12,000 for 1,280 acres of this donated land.[141]
-
-By early July 1938 Director Cammerer considered that South Dakota had
-met all the conditions of Public Law 1021. Under this act the federal
-government had acquired title to about 48,000 acres of the 50,830
-authorized. Within the extension authorized by the act of June 26, 1936,
-the NPS included an additional 97,976 acres. In all, the boundary
-recommended by the Service included some 148,806 acres (later revised to
-150,103.41, and still later revised again to 154,119.46 acres for the
-same amount of land[142]) of which the government owned 113,578.59
-acres. Director Cammerer therefore asked the Secretary of the Interior
-to approve the establishment of the national monument and that a
-proclamation be submitted to the President for final approval.[143] On
-January 25, 1939, President Roosevelt formally proclaimed the
-establishment of Badlands National Monument.[144] It became the 77th
-national monument and the 151st area in the federal park system which is
-administered by the National Park Service.[145]
-
- [Illustration: Figure 19 UPPER (PINNACLES)
- TUNNEL, 1938
-
- This 175-foot by 16-foot tunnel was located in the national monument
- about two miles southeast of the present Pinnacles Ranger Station.
- It and Lower (Norbeck) Tunnel, situated about three miles west of
- Cedar Pass Lodge near the base of Norbeck Pass, were in use only
- about four years before being obliterated.[140]]
-
-The complicated land-ownership pattern in the national monument along
-with grazing would plague the NPS for years. When the area was
-proclaimed in 1939, the NPS administered substantial tracts of land
-outside the national monument’s boundary. These tracts were located in
-the land utilization projects of the Department of Agriculture’s Soil
-Conservation Service. On the other hand, the SCS had land utilization
-tracts under its jurisdiction within the boundary.[146]
-
-
-
-
- EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATIONAL MONUMENT
-
-
-Under the general direction of the NPS, various relief agencies such as
-the Emergency Relief Administration (ERA), the Resettlement
-Administration, the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and the
-Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) worked on development projects in the
-area. Only a few scattered reports are now available on the work of
-these agencies. About 150 persons were employed at the area in January
-1937 on such projects as resurfacing, backsloping, ditching, and grading
-roads.[147] This included major reconstruction of the Sheep Mountain
-Canyon road, completed the same year.[148]
-
-One project of interest completed June 30, 1940 by ERA labor, under the
-Public Roads Administration, was the obliteration of two tunnels along
-the Pinnacles-Cedar Pass road. They were constructed during the first
-half of the 1930’s (see Figure 19) when the road was built by the State
-of South Dakota; the road was completed in 1935. The tunnels proved to
-be impractical because of inadequate width and maintenance
-problems.[149]
-
-In July 1940 the ERA project in the area was discontinued. Among the
-types of work accomplished since July 1, 1938, when the project was
-initiated, were the construction of five project headquarters buildings,
-prospecting for water on the national monument, the development of a
-well near the site of the old Pinnacles Checking Station, and ten road
-jobs which included road construction, widening, graveling, building
-culverts, and banksloping. The construction of parking overlooks, and
-the obliteration of buildings and clearing of 16 farmstead tracts, also
-took place during that time.[150]
-
-During the 12 months between July 1939 and July 1940, the ERA project
-employed an average of 150 relief workers.[151]
-
-Since the national monument is located a relatively short distance from
-Wind Cave National Park, the older area co-ordinated the business of
-Badlands during its early years. On August 11, 1939, Chief Ranger Howard
-B. Stricklin of Wind Cave became acting custodian of the newly
-designated area and was later placed in charge of the local ERA and CCC
-projects.[152] Although the ERA project was terminated in July 1940, the
-CCC work continued until June 1942.[153]
-
-When Stricklin arrived to take charge, there were no living quarters of
-any kind in the area. He lived at the CCC camp at Quinn Table while his
-family remained at Wind Cave. Temporary offices were established in Wall
-pending a decision regarding the location of permanent
-headquarters.[154]
-
-Considerable thought was given to the selection of a headquarters site.
-For a time the Pinnacles area was considered.[155] However, in late 1939
-it was finally decided to locate the center of operations at Cedar
-Pass.[156] This decision was due, in part, to the offer by Mr. Ben H.
-Millard, owner of Cedar Pass Lodge,
-
- to donate approximately 28 acres of strategically located land in the
- Cedar Pass area to the Service to be used as a headquarters area.[157]
-
- [Illustration: Figure 20 CEDAR PASS LODGE,
- early 1930’s
-
- The lodge was begun in 1928 at about the same time the large dance
- pavillion building in the background was constructed. People from as
- distant as Rapid City came here to dance to the music of Lawrence
- Welk and other name bands. More cabins for the lodge were built from
- its lumber when the pavillion was removed in about 1934.[159]]
-
-The Department of the Interior accepted Millard’s donation in May
-1941.[158]
-
-The decision to develop the Cedar Pass area for headquarters greatly
-altered development plans. The CCC enrollees numbering 207 in February
-1940 were encamped at Quinn Table some 35 miles west of Cedar Pass.
-Since much of the development was taking place at Cedar Pass, it was
-necessary to drive them between these two points each day.[160]
-
-One of the great handicaps of Cedar Pass as a headquarters area was the
-lack of water. To develop a satisfactory supply, the NPS found it
-necessary to go to the White River, three miles south. One of the major
-projects undertaken soon after selecting the headquarters site was to
-dig a trench and lay pipe to the river. Since this stream is
-intermittent above ground, but has a dependable subsurface flow, water
-was collected in perforated pipes laid on hard clay and shale about
-eight feet below the river bed. The pipe brought water to a sump on the
-river bank where it was pumped to a 100,000-gallon storage tank above
-the headquarters area.[161] Work was begun on this reservoir in April
-1940 and completed by the CCC in September 1941. At the same time the
-CCC also erected a checking station at Pinnacles which Stricklin and his
-family occupied from November 15, 1940, until about May 15, 1943.[162]
-
-Handicapped by the location of the original CCC camp at Quinn Table, a
-new camp was authorized at Cedar Pass and work on it began in June 1941.
-Five months later the new camp was occupied.[164]
-
-At that time the only visitor-contact point in the Cedar Pass area was
-at Cedar Pass Lodge. During the summer season Mr. Millard lectured
-nightly to lodge guests on the geologic history of the Badlands, thereby
-initiating interpretive programs. He also showed movies of the Badlands
-and other scenic areas. A temporary park ranger, who checked travel in
-the Cedar Pass area during the day, took part in the evening
-programs.[165]
-
- [Illustration: Figure 21 PINNACLES RANGER
- STATION AND CHECKING STATION, 1941
-
- Completed in 1941, the ranger station also served as quarters until
- January 1965 when the new Pinnacles ranger station-residence was
- completed. The checking station was removed about 1958 to make way
- for road improvement, and the old ranger station was razed in April
- 1967.[163]]
-
-The problem of stock grazing in the national monument grew increasingly
-worse during the 1940’s. The acting custodian complained early in 1940:
-
- Until the boundary is fenced and we are in a better position to know
- what is private and what is monument land, there appears to be very
- little that can be done to prevent this.[166]
-
-In December 1941 he wrote in a similar vein:
-
- During past winters it has been the practice of local stockmen to
- allow herds of horses and cattle to drift into the monument area to
- graze unrestrictedly over public as well as private lands and along
- the monument highways. There is such a large amount of private and
- county-owned land within the monument boundaries (31,000 acres out of
- a total of 150,000) that it is difficult to restrain stock from
- grazing on National Park Service land as well as on the land that is
- owned or leased by private individuals.[167]
-
-It soon became obvious that Badlands National Monument would be a
-popular attraction because of its location near U.S. Highways 14 and 16,
-both well-known national highways going through the Black Hills. In 1941
-there were 70.02 miles of road in the national monument. Of this, 61.52
-miles were constructed by the state and 8.5 miles by the federal
-government; 29.87 miles were graveled and 40.15 were dirt roads.[168]
-
-Although the roads through the area were only partially developed,
-thousands of travelers turned off the through highways to view the
-scenic Badlands.
-
-Stricklin reported in September 1941:
-
- More than a quarter of a million visitors had passed through Badlands
- National Monument by the close of the travel season on September 30,
- representing an increase of approximately 30 percent over the previous
- year, for the period during which an actual count was made.[169]
-
-The entrance of the United States into World War II in December 1941 had
-a great impact on the area and its operations. Since many of the CCC
-enrollees would be absorbed into the armed forces, the project work soon
-came to an end. The acting custodian reported in the spring of 1942, “On
-March 25, after two years and five months of productive work in Badlands
-National Monument, CCC Camp Badlands, NP-3 [located at Cedar Pass], was
-abandoned.”[170] Work was continued on several projects undertaken at
-Camp Badlands by a CCC side camp with the view toward completing the
-projects or leaving them “in such condition that the facilities involved
-may be used, and the materials, all of which have been on hand for some
-time, may be protected against deterioration and loss.”[171] However,
-the side camp was also closed in the following June, leaving practically
-all of the construction projects in various states of completion.[172]
-In December 1942 most of the CCC buildings at Cedar Pass were dismantled
-and removed by the armed services.[173]
-
-Another result of the nation’s entrance into the war was a sharp drop in
-visitors to the Badlands. Stricklin wrote in June 1942 that “Most of
-these visitors appeared to be genuine vacationists ... [who] had a
-vacation coming, and were trying to get it in before gas rationing
-became nation-wide.”[174] He estimated that travel in March 1943 was 87
-percent under that for March 1942, and that “All foreign [out-of-state]
-visitor cars stopping for information were headed for defense jobs, or
-were military personnel, changing their headquarters from one part of
-the country to another.”[175] The effect of the war on travel to the
-national monument is reflected in the travel figures of the area for the
-years from 1941 to 1945. (See Appendix A.)
-
-Efforts at the national monument during the war were devoted largely to
-preventive maintenance. Changing his headquarters from Pinnacles to
-Cedar Pass in June 1943, Stricklin was able to give closer attention to
-the headquarters area.[176] Such routine tasks as filling washouts,
-cleaning ditches, reclaiming gravel, cutting roadside weeds, repairing
-guard rails, cleaning up debris, and temporary patching of roads
-occupied most of the staff’s time. Other tasks, such as repairing water
-lines, painting signs, keeping the buildings in repair, and servicing
-and repairing the area equipment also required much attention.[177] The
-cottage that the custodian and his family rented from Millard at Cedar
-Pass was destroyed by fire on November 27, 1943.[178]
-
- [Illustration: Figure 22 CEDAR PASS, June 1950
-
- The buildings of Cedar Pass Lodge can be seen behind the white frame
- structure, which served as a visitor center and headquarters until
- 1959. Remnants of two spires on Vampire Peak remain on the left. It
- was observed on November 22, 1950, that one of the two spires of
- this famous landmark had fallen, apparently during a thunder
- storm.[189]]
-
-During the ten years following the end of World War II, there was slow
-progress in the area’s development. Work on the custodian’s residence at
-Cedar Pass, begun in 1941, was completed in 1946.[179] Early in 1953 two
-additional houses, both prefabricated, were completed.[180] In January
-1948 commercial power was brought to Cedar Pass and Interior with the
-completion of a single-phase power line by the Rural Electrification
-Administration.[181] The Northwestern Bell Telephone Company extended
-telephone service to the national monument headquarters in September
-1952.[182] (This service was officially taken over by the Golden West
-Telephone Cooperative, Inc., in October 1960.)[183]
-
-During the travel seasons of 1946 and 1947 there was much adverse
-criticism of the national monument roads. The maintenance equipment was
-in poor condition and usually undergoing repairs when most needed.[184]
-In the summer of 1948 about 4 miles of road was black-topped between the
-Cedar Pass junction and Norbeck Pass; this represented the first paving
-of U.S. Route 16A in the national monument.[185] The present northeast
-entrance road, about 3½ miles long, was completed in October 1951. It
-opened up a new area of the Badlands known as the Window Section.[186]
-This road was made possible by the donation in 1946 of a 160-acre,
-strategically located land parcel by Mr. Ben Millard who had purchased
-it from Jackson County in March 1941 for this purpose.[187]
-
-During the late 1940’s and early 1950’s buildings constructed as
-temporary structures in the ERA and CCC period were remodeled and
-continued in use for headquarters and utility purposes.[188]
-
-Both the grazing and the land ownership problems at the national
-monument were compounded by the war. With increased rainfall in the
-region during the decade of the 1940’s and the rising price of beef, the
-situation of the ranchers greatly improved. Under a plan suggested by
-Congressman Case in January 1943 to help in the “Beef for Victory
-Program,” the Service authorized for the first time in April the
-issuance of grazing permits on federally owned grasslands within the
-national monument. Under this program, the lands were divided into seven
-grazing units. An orderly grazing plan was established with the
-cooperation of the Soil Conservation Service.[190] Stricklin was able to
-identify and locate all cattle and sheep outfits that claimed to be
-using the national monument lands in conjunction with their SCS
-allotments.[191] Following the war authorized grazing remained one of
-the area’s major management problems for over a decade.
-
-Stricklin wrote about an interesting sidelight of the grazing problem:
-
- The roundup and disposal of several hundred head of unclaimed and
- so-called wild horses in the Sage Creek basin was a source of much
- concern on the part of both ranchers and the Custodian, the ranchers
- claiming the wild stallions were enticing away their mares. The
- Custodian’s concern was partly because of the damage these herds were
- doing to the range, but largely because it was practically the only
- program of any kind on which the National Park Service and the
- ranchers could even remotely agree. Several roundups were collaborated
- in, during which the herds were drastically reduced. Airplanes were
- used on at least one of the roundups to flush horses out of the
- canyons and keep them from breaking back on their route to Scenic and
- the loading chutes. Jack and Mamie Close, ranchers on Quinn Table,
- were the leaders among the ranchers in this work.[192]
-
-Feral horses were eventually eliminated through roundups and returned to
-their owners. The last roundup took place in the national monument in
-1963.[193]
-
-With the improvement of their lot, many ranchers who had been destitute
-only a few years earlier were in a position to purchase county lands
-within the national monument boundary. The custodian reported in April
-1943 that practically all such land within the boundary was leased for
-grazing and that much of it was recently bought by sheep and cattle
-ranchers.[194] In 1946 Stricklin reported a considerable change in land
-ownership where much of the land formerly controlled by Pennington
-County had passed into private ownership.[195] Later the same year
-Jackson County auctioned all of its 3,000 acres of land within the
-boundary to private individuals. Practically all of the 14,000 acres
-which was owned by the two counties two years earlier had passed into
-private ownership.[196]
-
-The location of the boundary had been a subject of discussion since the
-national monument was established in 1939. The area contained a large
-acreage of grassland which the Soil Conservation Service believed should
-be released for grazing purposes. There was also overlapping
-jurisdiction between the two federal agencies.[197]
-
-After several years of study, the NPS and the SCS arrived at an
-understanding on the national monument boundary and mutual land
-problems. In 1946 the two agencies signed an agreement known as
-Recommended Program of Procedure for boundary adjustment of Badlands
-National Monument. The NPS agreed:
-
-(1) to transfer to the Soil Conservation Service NPS lands outside the
- existing national monument boundary in order to compensate for
- 1,220 acres the SCS had turned over for inclusion in the national
- monument prior to its establishment in 1939;
-
-(2) to transfer to the SCS equivalent lands (computed on a
- livestock-carrying-capacity basis) for lands that were to be
- acquired from the SCS by the NPS as the result of revised boundary
- studies;
-
-(3) to transfer to the SCS federal lands which the NPS planned to
- eliminate from the national monument to use in exchange for
- non-federal lands remaining in the national monument after the
- boundary changes were made.[198]
-
-The plan made it possible to transfer, without legislation, 3,678.19
-acres of NPS lands lying outside the park boundary to the SCS. This was
-done by order of the Secretary of the Interior in July 1949.[199] These
-lands were acquired under the Resettlement Administration program and,
-in 1936 were transferred to the NPS. When Badlands National Monument was
-established in 1939, these lands were not within the boundary.[200]
-
-In order to carry out the main objectives of the plan, Congressional
-action was necessary. In 1950 bills (H.R. 7342 and S. 3081) were
-introduced in the 81st Congress by Representative Case and Senator
-Chandler Gurney to implement the proposed land exchange. H.R. 7342 was
-passed by the House without amendment, but later the bill died in the
-Senate. The senate bill (S. 3081) was not considered.
-
-In 1951 Senator Francis H. Case, who had just been elected to that
-office, and Congressman E.Y. Berry introduced identical bills (S. 896
-and HR. 3540) in the 82nd Congress. These were similar to the ones
-proposed a year earlier. Berry’s bill passed the House on July 2, 1951,
-without amendment. The House Act was referred to the Senate Committee on
-Interior and Insular Affairs, which recommended that section five of
-H.R. 3540 be dropped. This section would have provided authority to
-include 4,000 acres of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the Sheep
-Mountain area provided certain conditions were met. The committee
-believed “that a satisfactory solution should be worked out with the
-Tribal Council of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of Indians, and any others
-interested, before legislation with regard to these lands is
-enacted.”[201] The bill in its amended form, including another minor
-change recommended by the committee, passed the Senate on January 24,
-1952.[202]
-
- [Illustration: Figure 23 AREA CHANGES IN
- BADLANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT[203]]
-
- Area authorized in 1929 (dashed line) 50,830.40 acres
- Area upon establishment in 1939 154,119.46 acres
- Area after changes of 1952 122,642.52 acres
- Area after changes of 1957 (heavy line) 111,529.82 acres
-
-Acreage figures are latest available and may be different from figures
-which were current during each of the four times the park boundary has
-been redesignated. Because of these acreage revisions, additions to and
-deletions from the park do not total correctly.
-
- Badlands National Monument
- South Dakota
-
- One section (1 mile square—640 acres)
- Eliminated in 1952 31,442.52 acres
- Added in 1952 4,449.29 acres
- Eliminated in 1957 11,234.09 acres
- Added in 1957 241.39 acres
-
-Shortly afterwards on February 8, telegrams were sent to Congressmen
-Berry, Senator Case, and Senator Karl Mundt by the executive committee
-of the tribal council of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. The messages urged the
-congressmen to do their best to get Section 5 restored so it would be
-possible for the tribe to negotiate with the federal government for
-exchange of the land in the Sheep Mountain area for other lands.[204]
-The House, however, did not heed this resolution but voted instead to
-concur with the Senate’s amended version. The bill became Public Law 328
-after being signed by President Harry S Truman on May 7, 1952.[205]
-
-Under this law, the Secretary of the Interior was authorized to adjust
-and redefine at his discretion the exterior boundary of the national
-monument by appropriate reductions or additions. The law specified,
-among other things, that the adjusted area could not exceed the existing
-154,119 acres.[206] (An official figure of 150,103.41 acres was used as
-the total acreage of the area at the time it was proclaimed as a
-national monument in 1939. A revised figure, listing 154,119.46 acres
-for the same area, was used as the total acreage from about 1943 until
-October 1952.[207])
-
-Immediately after the bill became law, proposed boundary changes
-received considerable attention. Some believed that the area of the
-national monument should be reduced. A strong supporter of this view was
-the South Dakota Stock Growers Association. It was the organization’s
-belief that the size could be reduced by about one-half without
-destroying any of its scenic value. They estimated that 3,000 head of
-cattle would be without grass if the NPS carried through its plan to
-fence the area and eliminate grazing from the national monument. One of
-the biggest problems was the large acreage of private lands located
-within its boundary. Many ranchers believed that these lands ought to be
-eliminated “from the Badlands National Monument wherever a reasonable
-boundary adjustment can be made.”[208] Others contended “that all of the
-grassland west of Pinnacles [Sage Creek Basin] could be removed from the
-Park and that such removal would in no way destroy the attraction to the
-tourist.”[209]
-
-A 1953 memorandum from the Regional Director to NPS Director Conrad L.
-Wirth explained how Sage Creek Basin had become largely
-government-owned:
-
- Sage Creek Basin was a submarginal waste in the 1930’s due to
- prolonged and severe drought conditions and considerable acreages of
- private lands were acquired by the Resettlement Administration in
- connection with its submarginal land program.... Other private parcels
- became tax delinquent and were ultimately sold to private owners by
- Pennington County in the 1940’s. Because of favorable climatic
- conditions of the past several years, the basin has recovered from its
- condition of the 1930’s; it now contains a considerable acreage of
- good grasslands.... We venture the opinion that had vegetative
- conditions of the basin in the 1930’s resembled those of today, a
- submarginal land program would not have been undertaken so far as the
- basin is concerned.[210]
-
-Owing to the great interest generated by the proposed boundary changes,
-the NPS issued a statement in July 1952 giving reasons why it would not
-be “advisable to eliminate from the Monument the grasslands west of the
-Pinnacles, as suggested by the South Dakota Stock Growers
-Association.”[211] It said in part that
-
- These flatter lands with their cover of native grasses and
- wildflowers, typical of the surrounding prairie country, are valuable
- for park and wildlife purposes. The preservation of this relatively
- small exhibit of native grass is an important responsibility in
- itself, since no comparable section of the Great Plains has been set
- apart to be preserved in its natural condition.[212]
-
-The statement also indicated that about 31,700 acres of other lands were
-to be eliminated from the national monument, including more than 12,000
-acres of privately owned lands. It indicated that the Soil Conservation
-Service agreed to these revisions and that they were “the same as those
-which the Congress considered when it authorized boundary revisions by
-enacting Public Law 328.”[213]
-
-On October 3, 1952, Assistant Secretary of the Interior Joel D. Wolfsohn
-issued an order revising the boundary of the national monument. The
-order showed that 30,802.52 acres, more or less, were “hereby
-transferred from the Department of the Interior to the Department of
-Agriculture for use, administration, and disposition in accordance with
-the provisions of Title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act....”
-This reduced the size of Badlands National Monument, according to the
-order, to 121,883.12 acres.[214]
-
- The Order was performed to provide lands for the Soil Conservation
- Service to enable those persons having private land in the monument to
- trade for Soil Conservation Service lands outside the monument, and to
- make a few administrative adjustments in the monument boundary.[215]
-
-However, discrepancies in the land records led the NPS to investigate
-the status of lands within the former boundary.[216] By late 1953 it was
-found that 31,442.52 acres were eliminated from the national monument by
-the October 3 order instead of 30,802.52 acres. Of these 12,916.32 acres
-were private lands; the remaining 18,526.20 acres were transferred to
-the Soil Conservation Service of the Department of Agriculture.[217]
-
-There were also lands totaling about 4,449 acres added to the national
-monument by the October 3 order; these lands included
-
- “2,581.88 acres of public domain, 336.88 acres of purchased land,
- 981.79 acres of Soil Conservation Service land and 548.56 acres of
- private land.... The net result of the boundary adjustments was a loss
- of 26,993.23 acres of land in Badlands National Monument.”[218]
-
-Even before the October 3 order was enacted there was already talk about
-further reduction of the area boundary. In a memorandum dated December
-5, 1952, Director Wirth wrote to the Regional Director in charge of
-Badlands National Monument:
-
- [Illustration: Figure 24 A PORTION OF SAGE
- CREEK BASIN
-
- In 1953 over 25,000 acres were recommended by the NPS for deletion
- from this section of the national monument.[219] Later, studies
- revealed that the area should be retained. Today it is home for
- bison, deer, pronghorn, prairie dogs, and other animals. Sage Creek
- Primitive Campground is located in its northwest section.]
-
- The basis for a final solution [of the boundary problem at Badlands
- National Monument] lies in a reassessment and restatement of Monument
- objectives and significance. If it is found, as appears likely, that
- our chief concern and purpose should be with the badlands formations,
- then the boundaries should be drawn accordingly, with due regard for
- badlands protection, interpretation and attendant development needs.
- If we are to retain some or all of the grasslands, we must have strong
- and valid justification for doing so and be prepared to disclose and
- defend what specific Monument purposes and uses they are to
- serve.[220]
-
-In order to determine if the grasslands west of Pinnacles should be
-kept, the NPS contracted with a number of prominent scientists to make
-studies of the area in 1953. Dr. Theodore E. White, a paleontologist
-with the Smithsonian Institution, determined in June 1953 whether or not
-potentially fossiliferous areas would be excluded by proposed boundary
-readjustments.[221] Late that summer archeological investigations were
-undertaken by Archeologist Paul L. Beaubien of the NPS Regional Office
-in Omaha, Nebraska. He recorded some 30 prehistoric Indian sites and one
-historic Indian site believed to have been used by Chief Big Foot’s band
-a few days before the infamous battle at Wounded Knee in December
-1890.[222]
-
-Professor F.W. Albertson of Fort Hays Kansas State College submitted a
-Report of Study of Grassland Areas of Badlands National Monument in
-September. In brief he said, “it seems to me that the Park Service has
-an extremely interesting area, which should be preserved for all
-interested public through the years to come.”[223]
-
-Meanwhile, support grew for retention of the boundaries as spelled out
-by the October 3, 1952, secretarial order. The Rapid City Chapter of the
-Izaak Walton League of America, the South Dakota State Highway
-Commission, the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks, the
-Black Hills and Badlands Association, and prominent local persons,
-including Sid Soma, Dr. G.W. Mills, Ted Hustead, and Leonel Jensen, all
-from the town of Wall, were but a few of the many who advocated
-retention of the present boundary.[224]
-
-Although the South Dakota Stock Growers Association and some local
-ranching interests continued to advocate “the transfer of administration
-of all grazing lands within the monument not needed for road and
-development purposes,” it became evident to these people that opposition
-was building up against further acreage reduction in the park.[225]
-
-In April 1954 the NPS recommended no boundary changes until the problem
-was explored further. Director Wirth said:
-
- it seems apparent that there is a very considerable number of people
- ... which strongly support the retention of the Badlands National
- Monument not only as a striking example of geological formations, with
- areas of paleontological interest, but also for preservation of a
- segment of the plains grassland and native wildlife as added
- attractions. On the other hand, there is also a difficult problem of
- inholdings and grazing complications, with strong sentiment from the
- livestock owners for a reduction of the Monument.[226]
-
-He recommended, among other things, that exchanges of private land
-inside the boundary for federal lands outside be pushed vigorously, and
-that Dr. Adolph Murie, NPS Biologist, should study the wildlife
-possibilities of the national monument.[227]
-
-In his report Dr. Murie said:
-
- Badlands National Monument has national significance, first of all
- because it is a sample of the Badlands. The values of this monument
- are of outstanding significance in the fields of geology,
- paleontology, archeology, and biology. The eroded terrain has scenic
- value for many, and in Sage Creek Basin and in the section north of
- Cedar Pass one finds the atmosphere of the early scene, when this
- country was far beyond the frontier....
-
- In Sage Creek Basin we have an opportunity to preserve the prairie
- dog-blackfooted ferret community, with many other associated species
- of the region.... Likewise the rare kit fox may possibly be preserved
- in the basin. The value of Sage Creek Basin for preserving these rare
- native species is contingent on size and its present size is none too
- large....
-
- Concerning boundaries in general over the monument it appears that any
- eliminations would be harmful to public values. Only in minor details,
- in connection with land adjustments, should any territory be
- sacrificed. Sage Creek Basin, especially, should not be
- reduced....[228]
-
-Also during the summer of 1954, the NPS requested Dr. James D. Bump,
-Director of Museum of Geology of the South Dakota School of Mines and
-Technology at Rapid City, to make a geological and paleontological
-appraisal of Badlands National Monument. Quotations from his report
-point out his strong feelings for the area:
-
- The Big Badlands of South Dakota, from a paleontological standpoint,
- probably constitutes the richest Oligocene region in the world....
- [The quantity of] paleontological materials given up to man over the
- past 100 years is of astounding proportions. This prehistorical
- treasure represents more than 250 species of the vertebrate life of
- thirty million years ago....
-
- The Badlands National Monument is a part of the greatest
- badland-eroded section in North America.... I can think of no other
- geographic area of like-size that has the unusual natural beauty, the
- undisturbed plant and animal life and the wealth of scientific
- information to offer the public....[229]
-
-He ended his report by making a number of recommendations, some of which
-follow:
-
- The present boundaries must remain intact. Removal of any lands,
- except perhaps some thin scattered fringes, would seriously cripple
- future development and greatly reduce the attractiveness of the
- Monument....
-
- Under no circumstances should any part of the Sage Creek Basin be
- withdrawn. Its scientific and natural value cannot be overestimated
- and it is my opinion that this section will in the future become one
- of the most interesting and educational of the entire Monument.[230]
-
-As a result of Dr. Murie’s wildlife study and Dr. Bump’s geological and
-paleontological appraisal, the Service began formulating definite ideas
-in April 1955 concerning further revision of the boundary. An
-elimination of 11,124 acres including 4,234 acres of privately owned
-lands was proposed. This is only about one-third of the 32,000 acres
-which was being widely talked about as a possible reduction in size
-during 1953. The larger reduction would have included much of the
-grasslands west of Pinnacles. Addition of 4,460 acres, including 3,954
-acres of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation lands and 246 acres of Department
-of the Army lands located on the Indian reservation, was also proposed.
-Net reduction in area would be about 6,664 acres.[231]
-
-Since the mid-1930’s there have been various suggestions that a road be
-constructed to connect Sage Creek Basin with the Sheep Mountain
-locality. Although it was not in the master plan for the national
-monument in the 1950’s, planning for the ultimate boundary was done so
-that the road could be built if ultimately needed.[232] However, Dr.
-Murie recommended against the road proposal in his report.[233]
-
- [Illustration: Figure 25 BADLANDS NATIONAL
- MONUMENT VISITOR CENTER
-
- Dedicated in 1959, the building houses the national monument’s
- administrative offices, exhibits on the Badlands, and a small
- theater in which there are narrated slide programs on the highlights
- of the Badlands. The facility is open all year.]
-
-On April 12, 1956, an open meeting was held in Wall, South Dakota, to
-discuss proposed boundary changes with ranchers, stockmen, and local
-businessmen. No opposition to the proposals was voiced. The meeting also
-provided an opportunity for discussion of development plans, including
-fencing and grazing matters.[234]
-
-On March 22, 1957, Acting Secretary of the Interior Hatfield Chilson
-issued an order eliminating 11,234.09 acres from the national monument,
-of which about 4,000 acres were private land. The total area of Badlands
-National Monument was fixed at 111,529.82 acres. This also included an
-addition of 240 acres of federal land which, among other things,
-increased the utility area at headquarters and provided a much needed
-disposal area. An additional 1.39 acres of federal land, located along
-the White River three miles south of headquarters, were added, since
-water storage tanks and a water pump, all part of the area’s water
-system, are located there. More than 7,000 acres of the 11,234.09-acre
-reduction were transferred to the Department of Agriculture, under
-provisions of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, and became available
-for exchange for private land remaining inside the new boundary. As a
-result of the secretarial order, there was a net reduction of 10,992.70
-acres in the size of the national monument. The new boundary included
-98,486.39 acres in federal ownership and 13,043.43 acres of non-federal
-land.[235] Since then, the Service has acquired title to 6,356.71 acres
-of the non-federal land within the boundary. As of December 1967 there
-were 104,843.10 acres of federal land and 6,686.72 acres of non-federal
-land within the boundary of Badlands National Monument.[236]
-
-On January 2, 1954, the Secretary of Agriculture transferred the Land
-Utilization Program, including lands in the vicinity of the national
-monument, from the Soil Conservation Service to the U.S. Forest
-Service.[237] This, in part, prompted a Program of Procedure for Land
-Exchanges, a revision of the Recommended Program of Procedure, to be
-drafted. The new agreement was signed in September 1954 by officials of
-both services. It states in part that all future land exchanges are to
-be handled by the Forest Service. This includes exchanges with private
-parties who own land inside the national monument boundary. One
-objective of such land exchanges is to eliminate all non-federal lands
-from within Badlands National Monument.[238] Since 1954 elimination of
-such lands has come about largely through exchanges, although in a few
-instances actual purchases were made.
-
- [Illustration: Figure 26 RIBBON-CUTTING CEREMONY
- AT BADLANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT DEDICATION, SEPTEMBER 16, 1959
-
- Left to Right: NPS Regional Director Howard Baker, Region Two (now
- Midwest Region); Conrad Wirth, NPS Director; Fred Seaton, Secretary
- of the Interior; Congressman E.Y. Berry; Mrs. George H. Sholly,
- widow of Badlands National Monument Superintendent; Mrs. Ralph
- Herseth; and Governor Ralph Herseth of South Dakota.]
-
-Concurrently with boundary adjustments, the NPS gave considerable
-thought to a grazing management plan for the area whereby grazing might
-be eliminated without serious hardship to the local ranchers. As a
-result the Service presented a plan in May 1948 to grazing permittees
-outlining a schedule for the gradual termination of grazing on federally
-owned national monument lands by December 31, 1961.[239]
-
-
-
-
- MISSION 66 DEVELOPMENT
-
-
-In 1956, the National Park Service launched a 10-year park conservation
-development program known as Mission 66. This was to have great impact
-on the national monument. Under the program an expenditure of nearly
-$5,000,000 for roads, trails, buildings, and utilities was planned.
-Among the major projects undertaken and completed between 1956 and 1960
-were a realinement and oil surfacing of main roads, the development of
-the Conata Picnic Area and the Cedar Pass and Dillon Pass campgrounds,
-and the erection of utility and storage buildings, three
-multiple-housing units, five employee residences, and an
-amphitheater.[240]
-
-In May 1955 the Millard family donated two tracts of land totaling 18.50
-acres to the NPS. Of this total, 5.85 acres, located in front of Cedar
-Pass Lodge, were donated for the right-of-way of the relocated highway;
-the remaining 12.65 acres made possible the development of Cedar Pass
-Campground.[241]
-
-The visitor center was completed in May 1959. This large structure
-houses the national monument headquarters, interpretive exhibits, and an
-audiovisual presentation of the Badlands story.[242]
-
-The installation of exhibits in the visitor center was essentially
-completed by November 1960.[243] Some of the materials used in the
-exhibits were donated by a number of individuals and institutions. Mr.
-Herbert Millard, son of the late Ben Millard, gave a large mass of sand
-calcite crystals now in the Small Wonders Exhibit. Dr. Winter of the
-University of South Dakota at Vermillion donated the plant collection in
-the Great Plains Grasslands Exhibit. The mounted badger in the Wildlife
-of the Grassland Exhibit was a gift from Orville Sandall of Kadoka,
-South Dakota. The skull of an Audubon Bighorn, on display above the
-Breaks in the Grassland Exhibit, was donated by Willard Sharp of
-Interior, South Dakota. In the exhibit showing a number of Indian
-artifacts are casts of early-man points donated by the University of
-Nebraska State Museum.[244]
-
-The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, South
-Dakota, donated both the lower jaw and the upper jaw, including skull,
-of a fossilized titanothere, which is in the Badlands Bones Exhibit. The
-materials for the articulated oreodont fossil in the same exhibit were
-also donated by the school. The oreodont fossil is of particular
-interest because it was found northwest of Imlay, South Dakota about 100
-feet from where a famous fossilized oreodont with unborn twins was
-excavated. The latter fossil is on display at the Museum of Geology at
-the school (see Figure 5).[245]
-
-The first full-time resident park naturalist for Badlands National
-Monument was assigned in June 1958 to aid with the local interpretive
-program.[246] For a number of years previously, a park naturalist who
-had been assigned to Black Hills areas of the NPS also served the
-national monument on an irregular basis.[247]
-
- [Illustration: Figure 27 CLIFF SHELF NATURE
- TRAIL
-
- The loop trail, completed in 1962, is constructed over a geological
- slump which has lush plant cover. To acquaint the visitor with the
- area’s natural history, a trail leaflet is provided. Here,
- naturalist-guided walks are offered daily during the summer
- months.[250]]
-
-On September 16, 1959, following the completion of the visitor center,
-the NPS dedicated Badlands National Monument. The featured speaker for
-the event was Fred A. Seaton, Secretary of the Interior, who gave the
-dedicatory address. Some 350 persons attended the ceremony.[248]
-
-Tragedy struck a short time prior to the dedication with the sudden
-death of Superintendent George H. Sholly on August 19. As a tribute to
-him, the new amphitheater was named the George H. Sholly Memorial
-Amphitheater.[249]
-
-After the boundary of Badlands National Monument was redefined by
-secretarial order in March 1957, the NPS began a long-range program for
-fencing it. The first segment of fencing was completed in 1957. By early
-1961 some 108 miles were fenced with 20 miles still to be completed. To
-fence non-federal land excluding state land within the national monument
-would require an additional 92 miles of fence.[252]
-
-In December 1961 letters were delivered to all inholding owners and to
-all persons who grazed stock within the national monument in that year.
-The letters terminated all grazing on federal lands within Badlands, and
-gave a short history of grazing in the national monument, the reason for
-termination, and the objectives and plans of the Service now that
-grazing was no longer permitted. Most of the private land located inside
-the boundary was not fenced, so unless steps were taken to fence the
-tracts used for grazing, stock would still trespass on federally owned
-lands.[253] Superintendent John W. Jay and Chief Park Ranger James F.
-Batman attended the legislative-committee meeting of the South Dakota
-Stockgrowers Association in Rapid City on November 30, 1961, where the
-matter of fencing the inholdings was discussed. Although at the time of
-this meeting the Service had no plans to fence any of the private
-inholdings, it later decided to assist with the fencing on an equal
-cost-sharing basis in the interest of better landowner-Service relations
-and in consideration of special situations relating to livestock
-management that faced some of the owners of private land in the national
-monument.[254] This offer was made to the landowners by letter from
-Superintendent Jay dated May 9, 1962. As a result three landowners
-accepted the offer.[255] By 1964 all of the inholdings on which grazing
-was being done were fenced either on a 50-50 basis or by the individual
-owners.[256]
-
- [Illustration: Figure 28 FOSSIL EXHIBIT TRAIL
-
- Completed in 1962, this paved trail is unique in that along it are
- displayed partially excavated fossils protected by clear plastic
- domes. A shelter, located midway along the trail, houses exhibits
- which tell a brief story of Badlands fossils.[251]]
-
-Despite the Service’s hope that grazing on the national monument’s
-federally owned land would be terminated at the end of 1961, it
-continued. Due to drought conditions of 1961 and early 1962, Congressman
-Berry requested on behalf of the ranchers that grazing be continued
-during 1962. NPS Director Wirth decided to set up an emergency grazing
-program that would include only those ranchers who held permits in 1961.
-Accordingly, special-use permits were issued to 26 ranchers during 1962.
-This was the last year that grazing was permitted on federally owned
-lands in the national monument.[257]
-
-Some livestock trespassing by local ranchers continued, nevertheless. In
-November 1962, the United States Attorney took direct action against
-five ranchers who had been in trespass for some time.[258]
-
-As early as 1919 a U.S. Forest Service report expressed the idea that
-“Sage Creek Basin contains a large acreage of land that can be used for
-a game preserve for buffalo, elk, deer, antelope and mountain
-sheep.”[259] In 1935 the proposed Badlands National Monument plus the
-Badlands Recreational Demonstrational Area (most of which was later
-included in the national monument when it was established in 1939) were
-considered to be favorable localities for the reintroduction of buffalo,
-mountain sheep, and pronghorn.[260]
-
-However, after the national monument was established, the NPS believed
-that the area was too small to provide a wildlife range.[261] Dr.
-Murie’s report
-
- recommended that no buffalo be introduced on the monument because of
- the artificial conditions under which they would have to be
- maintained. If it were deemed desirable to fence an area for buffalo
- the most suitable spot would be north of Cedar Pass.[262]
-
-Concerning bighorn sheep he “recommended that the bighorn be introduced
-when the opportunity develops, and that Sheep Mountain Peak be added to
-the monument for the use of the bighorn.”[263]
-
-Pronghorn, commonly referred to as antelope, were seen during the 1940’s
-on rare occasions in Badlands National Monument and just outside the
-north boundary. However since 1959, 100 or more head have been reported
-annually in the national monument. These animals have come from the
-outside since there has not been any formal reintroduction of pronghorn
-inside the boundary.[264]
-
- [Illustration: Figure 29 AMERICAN BISON AGAIN
- IN THE BADLANDS
-
- After an absence of about a century, buffalo were reintroduced into
- the national monument in 1963. The fast-increasing herd roams
- largely in the 45,000 acres of Sage Creek and Tyree Basins.[268]]
-
- [Illustration: Figure 30 REINTRODUCTION OF
- BIGHORN SHEEP, 1964
-
- These Rocky Mountain Bighorns are closely related to the now-extinct
- Audubon Bighorns.[269]]
-
-Immediately after grazing was terminated on national monument lands in
-1962, the range underwent a remarkable recovery, due to the abundant
-rainfall of the 1962 and 1963 seasons. Questions arose as to why the
-range was not being utilized. Superintendent Frank Hjort recommended
-that bison be reintroduced as a means of getting the wildlife
-restoration program underway.[265]
-
-In November 1963 the first herd of bison, comprised of 28 head from
-Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park in North Dakota and Fort
-Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge in Nebraska, were released in Sage
-Creek Basin. In October of the following year, this herd was enlarged by
-an additional 25 head from Theodore Roosevelt. The herd has done well
-and by the end of 1967 numbered 122 individuals.[266]
-
-Since 1963 the buffalo have shown that they prefer the remoteness of
-Sage Creek Basin and have demonstrated little desire to leave that
-area.[267]
-
-In January 1964 in cooperation with the South Dakota Game, Fish and
-Parks Department, bighorn sheep were reintroduced. Twelve head of Rocky
-Mountain Bighorns from Colorado were released in a 370-acre holding pen
-with the view toward eventually restocking Badlands National Monument
-and other parts of South Dakota. This flock was supplemented by ten more
-animals the following month.[270]
-
-Unfortunately, losses were suffered by both adults and lambs during the
-first two and one-half years. The situation improved early in 1966 with
-no further losses until the summer of 1967 when the peak flock of 27
-individuals suffered a severe setback. In September, when all but 13 had
-succumbed to a respiratory infection, the bighorn were released from the
-holding pasture. They now roam the rugged Badlands south of Pinnacles
-Overlook.[271]
-
-In February 1964, the NPS purchased Cedar Pass Lodge, together with 72
-acres of the surrounding land, for $275,000 from the Millard family. The
-lodge is now being run on a contract basis by a concessioner.[272]
-
-Increased travel to the area during the years of Mission 66 fully
-justified the expanded development program of the national monument.
-From 1956 to 1966 the number of visitors increased 65 percent (see
-Appendix A).
-
-Because of this great increase in travel, the summer visitor may find
-some of the scenic-overlook parking areas full, the visitor center
-crowded, and the nightly campground amphitheater program with “standing
-room only.” Since increased visitor use is practically assured in the
-foreseeable future, plans are already being made to provide additional
-facilities for visitors to Badlands National Monument.
-
-
-
-
- APPENDIX A
- ANNUAL NUMBER OF VISITS TO BADLANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT SINCE ITS
- ESTABLISHMENT[273]
-
-
- Year Total Visits Percent increase or decrease
- over previous year
-
- 1938[a] 175,000
- 1939 205,100 17.2
- 1940 190,243 -7.2
- 1941 252,878 32.9
- 1942 87,231 -65.5
- 1943 10,149 -88.4
- 1944 10,349 2.0
- 1945 31,377 203.2
- 1946 230,403 634.3
- 1947 339,843 47.5
- 1948 384,133 13.0
- 1949 373,076 -2.9
- 1950 447,654 20.0
- 1951 607,965 35.8
- 1952 580,902 -4.5
- 1953 658,691 13.4
- 1954 664,997 1.0
- 1955 630,881 -5.1
- 1956 663,246 5.1
- 1957 701,094 5.7
- 1958 810,837 15.7
- 1959 825,184 1.8
- 1960 878,625 6.5
- 1961 833,279 -5.2
- 1962 1,044,768 25.4
- 1963 1,073,971 2.8
- 1964 1,079,837 0.5
- 1965 1,091,261 1.1
- 1966 1,094,754 0.3
- 1967 1,188,666 8.6
-
-
-[a]The figures for 1938 have not been used to calculate total visitation
- to the national monument since the year is before the area was
- officially established.
-
-
-Average annual increase in number of visits in the last 15 years has
-been about 5%.
-
-In September 1954, 15½ years after the national monument was
-established, the five millionth visit was recorded. A total of ten
-million visits was attained just seven years later in July 1961. On
-August 16, 1966, Superintendent Frank A. Hjort officially welcomed a
-traveler and his family who represented the 15 millionth visit to
-Badlands National Monument. At the present rate of travel increase, the
-20 millionth visit is expected in 1970. As of December 31, 1967, the
-total number of visits to the national monument since its establishment
-in 1939 is 16,991,394.
-
-The NPS travel year has been the same as a regular calendar year since
-January 1, 1953. Before that date, the NPS travel year was from October
-through September. However, total visits prior to 1953 have been
-recalculated to show actual calendar year totals.
-
-
-
-
- APPENDIX B
- CUSTODIANS AND SUPERINTENDENTS of Badlands National Monument[274]
-
-
- 1. Howard B. Stricklin Acting Custodian August 11, 1939-December 31, 1943
- Custodian January 1, 1944-July 18, 1944
- (Military furlough; July 19, 1944-January 13, 1946)
- Custodian January 14, 1946-July 13, 1948
- 2. Warren K. Leland Custodian July 19, 1944-March 20, 1945
- 3. Lyle K. Linch Acting Custodian June 22, 1945-January 13, 1946
- 4. John E. Suter Custodian July 27, 1948-December 31, 1948
- John E. Suter Superintendent January 1, 1949-January 8, 1953
- 5. John A. Rutter Superintendent April 12, 1953-November 30, 1957
- 6. George H. Sholly Superintendent January 26, 1958-August 19, 1959[b]
- 7. Frank E. Sylvester Superintendent February 15, 1960-October 29, 1960
- 8. John W. Jay, Jr. Superintendent December 11, 1960-October 31, 1962
- 9. Frank A. Hjort Superintendent February 10, 1963-September 23, 1967
- 10. John R. Earnst Superintendent October 22, 1967-
-
-
-[b]Mr. Sholly died from a heart attack on the evening of this date.
-
-
-
-
- APPENDIX C
- PICTURE CREDITS
-
-
-The sources for illustrations used in this publication are shown below.
-Dates when each of the photographic illustrations was taken are noted,
-if known, in parentheses. Department of the Interior, National Park
-Service has been abbreviated to DINPS for use in designating
-illustrations supplied by the NPS. The numbers to the left correspond to
-figure numbers under the illustrations in the text.
-
- 1. Report of a Geological Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota;
- and incidentally of a portion of Nebraska Territory, 1852,
- page 196.
- 2. Figure 64, page 127, South Dakota School of Mines Bulletin 13,
- November 1920.
- 3. Report of a Geological Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota;
- and incidentally of a portion of Nebraska Territory, 1852,
- between pages 196 and 197.
- 4. DINPS (November 20, 1967). Note: The Badlands Natural History
- Association is grateful to Mr. Leonel Jensen, local rancher,
- for help in locating the site of this trail. It is in S-1/2
- sec. 30, T. 1 S., R. 15 E. of the Black Hills Meridian.
- 5. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South
- Dakota.
- 6. The Rapid City Daily Journal, Monday, September 27, 1965.
- 7. Louis Blumer, Wall, South Dakota (about 1911).
- 8. A.E. Johnson, Interior, South Dakota (December 1906).
- 9. Ted E. Hustead, Wall Drug Store, Wall, South Dakota (1907).
- 10. Plate No. 56B, South Dakota School of Mines Bulletin 13, November
- 1920.
- 11. Keith Crew, Interior, South Dakota; from a postcard mailed June 5,
- 1909.
- 12. Leonel Jensen, Wall, South Dakota (fall 1908; Louis J. Jensen
- family).
- 13. Leslie Crew, Interior, South Dakota; from a postcard mailed
- December 19, 1908.
- 14. Rise Studio, Rapid City, South Dakota.
- 15. Black Hills Studios, Inc., Spearfish, South Dakota.
- 16. DINPS.
- 17. DINPS.
- 18. DINPS (December 6, 1964).
- 19. DINPS (1938).
- 20. DINPS (about 1934).
- 21. DINPS (June 1941).
- 22. DINPS (June 7, 1950).
- 23. DINPS.
- 24. DINPS (spring 1964).
- 25. DINPS (August 1960).
- 26. DINPS (September 16, 1959).
- 27. DINPS (summer 1962).
- 28. DINPS (July 1962).
- 29. DINPS (January 9, 1964).
- 30. DINPS (January 25, 1964).
-
-The Badlands Natural History Association wishes to extend its sincere
-thanks to these individuals and organizations for granting the
-association permission to use the illustrations.
-
-
-
-
- APPENDIX D
- Footnotes and References
-
-
-All references used in compiling this history are on hand in the
-Badlands National Monument library or files for further study. Where
-actual reports, correspondence, or books were not available, copies have
-been obtained from such sources as the National Archives, Library of
-Congress, National Park Service, and various public and university
-libraries.
-
-For the sake of simplicity, the following abbreviation has been used
-where appropriate:
-
- PNC—copies of items from the Peter Norbeck Collections, University of
- South Dakota, Vermillion, which pertain to the establishment of
- Badlands National Monument are in a bound volume in the national
- monument library.
-
-
-[1]Dee C. Taylor, Salvage Archeology in Badlands National Monument,
- South Dakota (Missoula: Montana State University, 1961), pp. 79, 80.
-
-[2]Ibid., p. 75.
-
-[3]Ibid., p. 80.
-
-[4]Herbert S. Schell, History of South Dakota (Lincoln: University of
- Nebraska Press, 1961), p. 16.
-
-[5]Ibid., pp. 17-23.
-
-[6]Ibid., pp. 24-36.
-
-[7]Lt. G.K. Warren, Preliminary Report of Explorations in Nebraska and
- Dakota in the Years 1855-’56-’57 (Washington: U.S. Government
- Printing Office, 1875), p. 26; J.R. Macdonald, “The History and
- Exploration of the Big Badlands of South Dakota,” Guide Book Fifth
- Field Conference of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in
- Western South Dakota, ed. James D. Bump (Sponsored by the Museum of
- Geology of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid
- City, August 29-September 1, 1951), p. 31.
-
-[8]Hiram M. Chittenden, and Alfred T. Richardson, eds., Life, Letters
- and Travels of Father Pierre-Jean De Smet. S.J., 1801-1873 (New
- York: Francis P. Harper, 1905), vol. 2, pp. 622, 623.
-
-[9]Charles L. Camp, ed., James Clyman American Frontiersman 1792-1881
- (Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1928), p. 24.
-
- Note: Dale Morgan was of the opinion that the jornada which Clyman
- describes was through country south of the White River, and that
- Smith’s party by-passed almost entirely that portion of the South
- Dakota Badlands now set apart as a national monument [Dale L.
- Morgan, Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West (Indianapolis:
- The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1953), p. 386, f.n. 10]. Just a
- year later, however, Morgan published new evidence found in the
- Gibbs map to back up the opposite interpretation of Clyman’s
- journals. He now believes that the Smith party followed the White
- River exclusively, keeping to the north bank all the way to possibly
- near the mouth of Willow Creek, located east and a little south from
- the present town of Hot Springs, South Dakota. This means the party
- would have at least seen, and perhaps passed through the present
- Badlands National Monument. [Dale L. Morgan and Carl I. Wheat,
- Jedediah Smith and his Maps of the American West (California
- Historical Society, 1954), p. 49.]
-
-[10]Reuben G. Thwaites, ed., Travels in the Interior of North America by
- Maximilian, Prince of Wied (Cleveland: The A.H. Clark Company,
- 1906), vol. 3, p. 90.
-
-[11]Chittenden and Richardson, op. cit., p. 624.
-
-[12]Ibid., pp. 624, 625.
-
-[13]Cleophas C. O’Harra, The White River Badlands (Rapid City: South
- Dakota School of Mines, Bulletin No. 13, Department of Geology,
- November 1920), pp. 123, 128.
-
-[14]John Francis McDermott, ed., Journal of an Expedition to the
- Mauvaises Terres and the Upper Missouri in 1850, Smithsonian
- Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 147 (Washington:
- U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952), p. 1.
-
-[15]Macdonald, op. cit., p. 31; American Journal of Science, vol. 3, no.
- 7, 2d series, January 1847, pp. 248-250; O’Harra, op. cit., pp. 23,
- 24, 110-117, 161.
-
-[16]McDermott, op. cit., p. 1.
-
-[17]Ibid.
-
-[18]Ibid., p. 2; Macdonald, op. cit., p. 31.
-
-[19]E. de Girardin, “A Trip to the Bad Lands in 1849,” South Dakota
- Historical Review, I (January 1936), 60.
-
-[20]Ibid., p. 62.
-
-[21]Ibid.
-
-[22]Ibid., pp. 64, 65.
-
-[23]David Dale Owen, Report of a Geological Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa,
- and Minnesota; and Incidentally of a Portion of Nebraska Territory
- (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co., 1852), pp. 196, 197.
-
-[24]Ibid., pp. 197, 198.
-
-[25]Ibid., pp. 198-206, 539-572.
-
-[26]McDermott, op. cit., pp. 2, 3, 54, 55, 59.
-
-[27]Ibid., pp. 60, 61.
-
-[28]Ibid., p. 65.
-
-[29]Ibid., p. 64.
-
-[30]Ibid., pp. 3, 4.
-
-[31]Ibid., p. 2.
-
-[32]Lt. G.K. Warren, “Explorations in the Dacota Country in the Year
- 1855,” Senate Ex. Doc. No. 76, 34th Congress, 1st Session
- (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956), p. 76.
-
-[33]Ibid., pp. 66-76.
-
-[34]Letter, Will G. Robinson, Secretary, South Dakota State Historical
- Society, to John W. Stockert, September 26, 1967; South Dakota
- Historical Society, South Dakota Department of History Report and
- Historical Collections (Pierre, S.D.: State Publishing Company,
- 1962), vol. XXXI, p. 280.
-
-[35]Warren, op. cit., p. 76.
-
-[36]Ibid., p. 74.
-
-[37]O’Harra, op. cit., pp. 24, 161-163.
-
-[38]Ray H. Mattison, ed., “The Harney Expedition Against the Sioux: The
- Journal of Captain John B.S. Todd,” Nebraska History, XLIII (June
- 1962), 92, 130.
-
-[39]Ibid., p. 122.
-
-[40]Ibid.
-
-[41]O’Harra, op. cit., p. 25.
-
-[42]Charles Schuchert, and Clara Mae LeVene, O.C. Marsh, Pioneer in
- Paleontology (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1940), pp. 139-168;
- U.S. National Park Service, Soldier and Brave (New York: Harper and
- Row, 1963), pp. 135, 136.
-
-[43]O’Harra, op. cit., p. 26.
-
-[44]Macdonald, op. cit., p. 32.
-
-[45]O’Harra, op. cit., p. 29.
-
-[46]Macdonald, op. cit., p. 33.
-
-[47]Louis Knoles, Forest Ranger, “A Report on the Bad Lands of South
- Dakota,” 1919, pp. 20, 21.
-
-[48]Ibid., p. 2; Letter, Mrs. E.T. Jurisch, Farmingdale, South Dakota,
- to George Crouch, Wall, South Dakota, May 24, 1965.
-
-[49]Knoles, op. cit., p. 22.
-
-[50]Jackson-Washabaugh County Historical Society, Jackson-Washabaugh
- Counties 1915-1965 (Marceline, Mo.: Walsworth, n.d.), p. 11;
- Interview, A.E. Johnson, Interior, S.D., by John W. Stockert,
- January 30, 1968.
-
-[51]Robert M. Utley, The Last Days of the Sioux Nation (New Haven: Yale
- University Press, 1963), pp. 40-59.
-
-[52]Ibid., pp. 184-199.
-
-[53]Frederic Remington, “Lieutenant Casey’s Last Scout,” Harper’s
- Weekly, XXXV (January 31, 1891), 86.
-
-[54]Knoles, op. cit., p. 4.
-
-[55]William H. Burt, and Richard P. Grossenheider, A Field Guide to the
- Mammals (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964), p. 75; Knowles,
- op. cit., p. 22; Louis Blumer, Wall, S.D., interview by John W.
- Stockert, January 15, 1968.
-
-[56]Walker D. Wyman, Recorder, Nothing But Prairie and Sky (Norman:
- University of Oklahoma Press, 1954), p. 46.
-
-[57]Ibid., pp. 47-52.
-
-[58]Ibid., pp. 75-81.
-
-[59]Jackson-Washabaugh County Historical Society, op. cit., pp. 11, 136,
- 142.
-
-[60]Interview, Leonel Jensen, Wall, S.D., by Ray H. Mattison, June 2,
- 1965; statement confirmed by A.E. Johnson, Interior, S.D., February
- 10, 1968.
-
-[61]Schell, op. cit., p. 343.
-
-[62]Photograph identified by Grace Sullivan Blair, Martin, S.D., A.E.
- Johnson and Rolla J. Burkholder, Interior, S.D.
-
-[63]Schell, op. cit., p. 343.
-
-[64]Ibid., p. 256.
-
-[65]U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Fifteenth Census
- of the United States: 1930 Population, Vol. I (Washington: U.S.
- Government Printing Office, 1931), pp. 1015, 1019.
-
-[66]Luman H. Long, ed., The World Almanac 1966 (New York: New York
- World-Telegram and The Sun, 1966), p. 375.
-
-[67]Letter, Senator Peter Norbeck to Prof. W.C. Toepelman, University of
- South Dakota, May 22, 1922, PNC, p. 3.
-
-[68]Interview, Leonel Jensen, Wall, S.D., by John W. Stockert, March 20,
- 1967.
-
-[69]Congressional Record, 61st Cong., 1st Sess., 44:50, 58, 115, 128.
-
-[70]Knoles, op. cit., pp. 17, 18.
-
-[71]Ibid.
-
-[72]Gilbert C. Fite, “Peter Norbeck,” Dictionary of American Biography,
- ed. Robert L. Schuyler (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1958),
- XXII, 491, 492.
-
-[73]Bernice White, ed., Who’s Who for South Dakota (Pierre, 1956), p.
- 103; South Dakota Legislative Manual, 1931 (Pierre: State Publishing
- Company, 1931), p. 455.
-
-[74]Edmund B. Rogers, comp., History of Legislation Relating to the
- National Park System Through the 82d Congress: Badlands National
- Monument South Dakota (1958), S. 3541, 67th Cong., 2d Sess.;
- Congressional Record, 67th Cong., 2d Sess., 62: 6173.
-
-[75]Ibid.
-
-[76]Congressional Record, 67th Cong., 2d Sess., 62:6233; Rogers, op.
- cit., H.R. 11514, 67th Cong., 2d Sess.
-
-[77]Rogers, op. cit., Executive Order of Warren G. Harding, October 23,
- 1922.
-
-[78]Letter, Commissioner, General Land Office, to Senator Norbeck,
- August 28, 1923, PNC, p. 11.
-
-[79]Congressional Record, 67th Cong., 4th Sess., 64:5573.
-
-[80]Congressional Record, 68th Cong., 1st Sess., 65:215; Rogers, op.
- cit., H.R. 2810, 68th Cong., 1st Sess., S. 3541, 67th Cong., 2d
- Sess.
-
-[81]Letters, Senator Norbeck from Attorney General B.S. Payne, January
- 11, 1922, Prof. W.C. Toepelman, May 17, 1922, and W.H. Tompkins,
- U.S. Land Office, May 26, 1922, PNC, pp. 1, 3-7.
-
-[82]Letter, Senator Norbeck to Vice President H.E. Beebe, Bank of
- Ipswich (S.D.), May 5, 1924, PNC, p. 15.
-
-[83]Interview, M. Emma Quevli, Interior, S.D., by John W. Stockert,
- February 6, 1968.
-
-[84]Letter, Senator Norbeck to J.W. Parmley, Ipswich, S.D., November 7,
- 1927, PNC, p. 32.
-
-[85]Ibid.
-
-[86]P.D. Peterson, Through the Black Hills and Bad Lands of South Dakota
- (Pierre, S.D.: J. Fred Olander Company, 1929), p. 23.
-
-[87]Ibid., pp. 23-33.
-
-[88]Letter, James M. Palmer, Secretary, Wonderland Hiway Association, to
- Senator Norbeck, October 22, 1927, PNC, p. 20.
-
-[89]Letter, Senator Norbeck to Parmley, November 7, 1927, PNC, p. 32.
-
-[90]Ibid.
-
-[91]Ibid.
-
-[92]Letter, Senator Norbeck to Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work,
- November 2, 1927, PNC, p. 31.
-
-[93]Letter, Senator Norbeck to Representative Williamson, April 10,
- 1928, PNC, p. 49.
-
-[94]Ibid., pp. 49, 50.
-
-[95]Rogers, op. cit., S. 4385, Calendar No. 1280, 70th Cong., 1st Sess.;
- H.R. 13618, 70th Cong., 1st Sess.; Congressional Record, 70th Cong.,
- 1st Sess., 69:8046.
-
-[96]Congressional Record, 70th Cong., 1st Sess., 69:9224; Rogers, op.
- cit., Senate Report No. 1246, Calendar No. 1280, 70th Cong., 1st
- Sess.
-
-[97]Congressional Record, 70th Cong., 1st Sess., 69:9589.
-
-[98]Robert S. Yard, “National Parks Situation Critical,” National Parks
- Association, November 7, 1928, PNC, p. 129.
-
-[99]Letter, Senator Norbeck to Yard, December 3, 1928, PNC, pp. 126,
- 127.
-
-[100]Letter, NPS Acting Director A.E. Demaray to Senator Norbeck,
- December 1, 1928, PNC, p. 122.
-
-[101]Congressional Record, 70th Cong., 1st Sess., 69:10007; 2d Sess.,
- 70:3807.
-
-[102]Rogers, op. cit., House of Representatives Report No. 2607, 70th
- Cong., 2d Sess.
-
-[103]Memorandum, NPS Director Arno B. Cammerer to Secretary of the
- Interior, July 6, 1938.
-
-[104]Rogers, op. cit., House of Representatives Report No. 2607, 70th
- Cong., 2d Sess.
-
-[105]Congressional Record, 70th Cong., 2d Sess., 70:4302, 4303.
-
-[106]Congressional Record, 70th Cong., 2d Sess., 70:4404.
-
-[107]Congressional Record, 70th Cong., 2d Sess., 70:5015, 5089; Rogers,
- op. cit., House of Representatives Report No. 2808, 70th Cong., 2d
- Sess.
-
-[108]Ibid.
-
-[109]Congressional Record, 70th Cong., 2d Sess., 70:5225.
-
-[110]Memorandum, NPS Director Cammerer to the Secretary of the Interior,
- July 6, 1938; Hillory A. Tolson, Laws Relating to the National Park
- Service, the National Parks and Monuments (Washington: U.S.
- Government Printing Office, 1933), pp. 302-305.
-
-[111]Congressional Record, 70th Cong., 2d Sess., 70:3198, 3812; Rogers,
- op. cit., S. 5779, 70th Cong., 2d Sess.; Senate Report No. 1842,
- Calendar No. 1869, 70th Cong., 2d Sess.
-
-[112]Congressional Record, 70th Cong., 2d Sess., 70:3490; Rogers, op.
- cit., H.R. 17102, 70th Cong., 2d Sess.
-
-[113]Interview, Ted E. Hustead, Wall, S. D., by Ray H. Mattison, June 2,
- 1965; “Bad Lands Becomes National Monument,” The Rapid City Daily
- Journal, January 28, 1939.
-
-[114]Memorandum, NPS Regional Director Howard Baker to the NPS Director,
- June 6, 1956 (includes copy of “Proposal of Name for an Unnamed
- Domestic Feature,” Board of Geographic Names).
-
-[115]Ibid., Weldon W. Gratton, “History of the Operator’s Development at
- the Pinnacles Area Badlands National Monument” (NPS Region Two, Land
- and Recreation Planning Division, September 23, 1948; Information
- from E.N. (Curley) and Ilo Nelson (Cedar Pass Lodge concessioner,
- 1964-____), February 9, 1968.
-
- Note: Not only were Norbeck and Millard linked together by their
- common interest in the Badlands, but also through the marriage of
- Mr. Norbeck’s daughter to Mrs. Clara (Millard) Jennings’ son
- (information from Nelsons, February 9, 1968).
-
-[116]Memorandum, G.A. Moskey, Chief Counsel, NPS, to NPS Regional
- Director, Region Two, May 20, 1941; Receipt signed by B.H. Millard
- and S.N. Millard dated October 24, 1946; Superintendent’s Monthly
- Narrative Report for March 1955.
-
-[117]Program, “Millard Ridge Dedication,” Badlands National Monument,
- Interior, South Dakota, June 28, 1957.
-
-[118]Information from E.N. (Curley) and Ilo Nelson, February 9, 1968;
- Gratton, op. cit.; Superintendent’s Monthly Narrative Report for
- October 1950.
-
-[119]Schell, op. cit., p. 277.
-
-[120]Ibid., p. 282.
-
-[121]Memorandum, NPS Director Cammerer to the Secretary of the Interior,
- November 28, 1934.
-
-[122]Ibid.
-
-[123]Rogers, op. cit., Executive Order of Franklin D. Roosevelt,
- November 21, 1934.
-
-[124]Letter, Fred Bess, FERA, to Tilford E. Dudley, The Land Program,
- FERA, January 1, 1935; Lewis Meriam, Relief and Social Security
- (Washington: The Brookings Institution, 1946), p. 283.
-
-[125]Final Report on the “Badlands National Monument Extension, South
- Dakota—R-1,” Third District Office, Branch of Planning, NPS,
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, submitted April 2, 1935, cover letter and
- pp. 30-45, 79; Letter, NPS Assistant Director Wirth to Sixth
- Regional Officer, NPS, August 1, 1935.
-
-[126]Letter, T.A. Walters, Acting Secretary of the Interior, to Harry L.
- Hopkins, Administrator, FERA, April 15, 1935.
-
-[127]Ibid.
-
-[128]Ibid.; Letter, Director J.S. Lansill, The Land Program, to T.E.
- Dudley, The Land Program, FERA, April 17, 1935.
-
-[129]Meriam, op. cit., pp. 286, 287.
-
-[130]Letter, Senator Norbeck to NPS Assistant Director Wirth, February
- 13, 1935.
-
-[131]Ibid.
-
-[132]Letter, Senator Norbeck to Herbert Evison, NPS Acting Assistant
- Director March 8, 1935.
-
-[133]Letter, Mrs. Eva Stevens Roberts, Imlay, S.D., to NPS Assistant
- Director Wirth, September 2, 1935.
-
-[134]Letter, George Gibbs, Regional Officer, Region VI, NPS, to M.C.
- Huppuch, Recreational Demonstration Projects, September 18, 1935.
-
-[135]Letter, Senator Norbeck to R.G. Tugwell, Administrator,
- Resettlement Administration, November 25, 1935.
-
-[136]Thomas A. Sullivan, Laws Relating to the National Park Service,
- Supp. I (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944), p. 149.
-
-[137]Various correspondence pertaining to the establishment of Badlands
- National Monument.
-
-[138]Letter, Governor Tom Berry to Secretary of the Interior Ickes,
- February 26, 1935; Letter, NPS Superintendent Harry J. Liek to C.
- Irvin Krumm, Executive Manager, Greater South Dakota Association,
- November 20, 1953.
-
-[139]Letter, D.K. Parrott, Acting Assistant Commissioner, General Land
- Office, to Senator Case, June 11, 1937; Memorandum, Neal A.
- Butterfield, NPS, to Mr. Thompson, February 13, 1937, “Badlands
- National Monument Extension, South Dakota—R-1,” op. cit., p. 113.
-
-[140]L.U. Foreman, Final Report (1938-1939) on “Badlands Tunnel
- Engineering,” Federal Works Agency, Public Roads Administration;
- Custodian’s Monthly Narrative Report for June 1940.
-
-[141]Memorandum, NPS Director Cammerer to the Secretary of the Interior,
- July 6, 1938; “Badlands National Monument Extension, South
- Dakota—R-1,” op. cit., pp. 116, 117; Letter, Senator Norbeck to NPS
- Director Cammerer, July 30, 1935.
-
-[142]Memorandum, Antoinette Funk, Assistant Commissioner, General Land
- Office, to the NPS, November 8, 1938; Grazing History, Badlands
- National Monument (September 1963), p. 88.
-
-[143]Memorandum, NPS Director Cammerer to the Secretary of the Interior,
- July 6, 1938.
-
-[144]Thomas A. Sullivan, Proclamations and Orders Relating to the
- National Park Service up to January 1, 1945 (Washington: U.S.
- Government Printing Office, 1947), pp. 118-120.
-
-[145]Memorandum, U.S. Department of the Interior for the Press, February
- 4, 1939.
-
-[146]Letter, F. Hopkins, Acting Chief, SCS, to NPS Director Newton B.
- Drury, December 27, 1941.
-
-[147]Project Manager’s Monthly Narrative Report for January 1937.
-
-[148]Project Manager’s Monthly Narrative Report for April 1937.
-
-[149]Howard W. Baker, NPS Resident Landscape Architect, “Report to the
- Deputy Chief Architect on Development of Proposed Badlands National
- Monument, November 13 and 14, 1935,” December 30, 1935; “Badlands
- National Monument Extension, South Dakota—R-1,” op. cit., cover
- letter and p. 15; “Badlands Tunnel Engineering,” op. cit.; Summary
- of Activities at Badlands National Monument, Fiscal Year 1940
- (included in Superintendent’s Fiscal Annual Narrative Report File).
-
-[150]Summary of Activities at Badlands National Monument, Fiscal Year
- 1940; Custodian’s Monthly Narrative Report for June 1940.
-
-[151]Ibid.
-
-[152]Memorandum, Superintendent Liek to the NPS Director, August 11,
- 1939; Custodian’s Monthly Narrative Report for February 1940.
-
-[153]Custodian’s Monthly Narrative Report for July 1940; Summary of
- Activities at Badlands National Monument, Fiscal Years 1941, 1942.
-
-[154]Memorandum, Superintendent Howard B. Stricklin to the NPS Regional
- Director, Midwest Region, March 17, 1965.
-
-[155]Baker, op. cit., p. 4; Memorandum, NPS Associate Director Demaray
- to NPS Regional Director, Region II, November 4, 1939; “Badlands
- National Monument Extension, South Dakota—R-1,” op. cit., p. 64.
-
-[156]Memorandum, Chief, Project Development Division, NPS, to the files,
- December 20, 1939; Memorandum, NPS Acting Regional Director Paul V.
- Brown to Regional Attorney Taylor, February 23, 1940.
-
-[157]Custodian’s Monthly Narrative Report for April 1940.
-
-[158]Custodian’s Monthly Narrative Report for May 1941; Summary of
- Activities at Badlands National Monument, Fiscal Year 1940;
- Memorandum, NPS Chief Counsel Moskey to the NPS Regional Director,
- Region II, May 20, 1941.
-
-[159]Memorandum, NPS Regional Director Baker to the NPS Director, June
- 6, 1956; Weldon W. Gratton, op. cit.; Information from E.N. (Curley)
- and Ilo Nelson, Cedar Pass Lodge, February 9, 1968.
-
-[160]Custodian’s Monthly Narrative Report for February 1940.
-
-[161]Memorandum, NPS Acting Regional Director Brown to Regional Attorney
- Taylor, February 23, 1940.
-
-[162]Custodian’s Monthly Narrative Reports for April 1940, November
- 1940, September 1941, and April 1943.
-
-[163]Superintendent’s Monthly Narrative Reports for January 1965 and
- April 1967; 1958 date deduced from various government memorandums
- 1956-1958.
-
-[164]Summary of Activities at Badlands National Monument, Fiscal Year
- 1942.
-
-[165]Custodian’s Monthly Narrative Report for July 1940.
-
-[166]Custodian’s Monthly Narrative Report for March 1940.
-
-[167]Custodian’s Monthly Narrative Report for November 1941.
-
-[168]Letter, NPS Acting Director Demaray to Representative Case, May 21,
- 1941.
-
-[169]Custodian’s Monthly Narrative Report for September 1941.
-
-[170]Custodian’s Monthly Narrative Report for March 1942.
-
-[171]Ibid.
-
-[172]Custodian’s Monthly Narrative Report for May 1942.
-
-[173]Custodian’s Monthly Narrative Report for December 1942.
-
-[174]Custodian’s Monthly Narrative Report for May 1942.
-
-[175]Custodian’s Monthly Narrative Report for March 1943.
-
-[176]Custodian’s Monthly Narrative Report for June 1943.
-
-[177]Custodian’s Monthly Narrative Reports and Annual Fiscal Reports for
- the war years, passim.
-
-[178]Custodian’s Monthly Narrative Report for November 1943.
-
-[179]Summary of Activities at Badlands National Monument, Fiscal Year
- 1942; Coordinating Superintendent’s Annual Narrative Report for
- Fiscal Year 1947.
-
-[180]Superintendent’s Monthly Narrative Report for January 1953.
-
-[181]Custodian’s Monthly Narrative Report for January 1948.
-
-[182]Superintendent’s Monthly Narrative Report for September 1952.
-
-[183]Purchase Order, Superintendent, Badlands National Monument, to
- Golden West Telephone Coop., Inc., October 17, 1960; Special Use
- Permit BADL 61-1, July 20, 1961.
-
-[184]Coordinating Superintendent’s Annual Report, Fiscal Year 1947.
-
-[185]Custodian’s Monthly Narrative Reports for May through September
- 1948; Fiscal Annual Reports 1947 and 1949.
-
-[186]Superintendent’s Monthly Narrative Report for October 1951; NPS
- Report 1a1, Annual Report of Officials in Charge of Field Areas and
- the Regional Directors, June 1, 1952.
-
-[187]Receipt, signed by B.H. Millard and S.N. Millard, October 24, 1946;
- Badlands National Monument Land Records.
-
-[188]NPS Report 1a1, Annual Report of Officials in Charge of Field Areas
- and the Regional Directors, May 11, 1951.
-
-[189]Superintendent’s Annual Fiscal Narrative Report, June 8, 1960;
- Superintendent’s Monthly Narrative Report for November 1950.
-
-[190]Grazing History, op. cit., pp. 2, 3.
-
-[191]Memorandum, Superintendent Stricklin to the NPS Regional Director,
- Midwest Region, March 17, 1965.
-
-[192]Ibid.
-
-[193]Information from Chief Park Ranger Byron A. Hazeltine, Badlands
- National Monument, November 1967.
-
-[194]Custodian’s Monthly Narrative Report for March 1943.
-
-[195]Custodian’s Monthly Narrative Report for February 1946.
-
-[196]Custodian’s Monthly Narrative Report for November 1946.
-
-[197]Memorandum, Lawrence C. Merriam, NPS Regional Director, Region Two
- to the NPS Director, December 6, 1946; Letter, Secretary of the
- Interior J.A. Krug to the President of the United States, May 21,
- 1949.
-
-[198]Ibid.
-
-[199]Memorandum, NPS Associate Regional Director, Region Two to
- Superintendent, Wind Cave National Park, August 31, 1949.
-
-[200]Krug to the President, May 21, 1949.
-
-[201]Rogers, op. cit., Senate Report No. 1064, Calendar No. 1005, 82d
- Cong., 2d Sess.
-
-[202]Ibid., Bills and Reports named in the text by number.
-
-[203]Grazing History, op. cit.; Badlands National Monument map file.
-
-[204]Telegram, Ben Chief, Pine Ridge Indian Agency, to Senator Mundt,
- February 8, 1952; Resolution of the Executive Committee of the
- Tribal Council of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, February 8, 1952.
-
-[205]Rogers, op. cit.; Hillory A. Tolson, comp., Laws Relating to the
- National Park Service, Supp. II. (Washington: U.S. Government
- Printing Office, 1963), pp. 387, 388.
-
-[206]Ibid.
-
-[207]Memorandum, Department of the Interior to the Press, February 4,
- 1939; Grazing History, op. cit., p. 88.
-
-[208]Letter, Congressman Berry to NPS Director Wirth, July 9, 1952;
- Resolution of the Cane Creek Cooperative Grazing District, Walter
- Kruse, President, n.d.
-
-[209]Letter, Senator Case to NPS Director Wirth, July 16, 1952.
-
-[210]Letter, NPS Regional Director Baker to the NPS Director, January
- 16, 1953.
-
-[211]Letter, NPS Acting Director Tolson to Congressman Berry, July 2,
- 1952.
-
-[212]Statement, “Boundary Revisions, Badlands National Monument, South
- Dakota,” NPS, July 1952.
-
-[213]Ibid.
-
-[214]Federal Register, October 10, 1952, pp. 9051, 9052.
-
-[215]Letter, General Superintendent Liek, to C. Irvin Krumm, Executive
- Manager, Greater South Dakota Association, November 20, 1953.
-
-[216]Memorandum, NPS Assistant Regional Director John S. McLaughlin to
- the NPS Director, April 14, 1953.
-
-[217]Letter, General Superintendent Liek to C. Irvin Krumm, November 20,
- 1953.
-
-[218]Ibid.; Memorandum, Superintendent John A. Rutter to NPS Regional
- Director, Region Two, October 14, 1955.
-
-[219]Land Status Map, Drawing No. NM-BL-2036-C-2, January 15, 1953.
-
-[220]Memorandum, NPS Director Wirth to NPS Regional Director, Region
- Two, December 5, 1952.
-
-[221]Theodore E. White, Report of the Paleontological Survey of Certain
- Peripheral Areas of the Badlands National Monument South Dakota
- (River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution, June 1953).
-
-[222]Paul L. Beaubein, Preliminary Report of Archeological
- Reconnaissance, Badlands National Monument, 1953, November 3, 1953,
- p. 3.
-
-[223]F.W. Albertson, Report of Study of Grassland Areas of Badlands
- National Monument, South Dakota..., September 26, 1953.
-
-[224]Resolution (No. 7615), Frank W. Mitchell, Secretary, State Highway
- Commission, November 17, 1953; Letters: F.W. Mitchell to Senator
- Case, November 24, 1953; F. Web Hill, Chairman, Conservation
- Committee, Rapid City Chapter Izaak Walton League of America, to NPS
- Director Wirth, November 4, 1953; Leonel M. Jensen, Game, Fish and
- Parks Commissioner, to Dr. G.W. Mills, March 18, 1954; Dr. G.W.
- Mills, President, Black Hills and Badlands Association to NPS
- Director Wirth, December 2, 1953; Memorandum, General Superintendent
- Liek to NPS Regional Director, Region Two, November 4, 1953.
-
-[225]Resolutions: Board of Directors, White River Cooperative Grazing
- District, November 24, 1953; W.M. Rasmussen, Executive Secretary,
- South Dakota Stockgrowers Association, December 11, 1953;
- Memorandum, Superintendent Rutter to NPS Regional Director, April
- 28, 1954.
-
-[226]Memorandum, NPS Director Wirth to NPS Regional Director, Region
- Two, April 5, 1954.
-
-[227]Ibid.
-
-[228]Adolph Murie, “Wildlife Values in Badlands National Monument,”
- 1954, pp. 16, 17.
-
-[229]James D. Rump, “A Geological and Paleontological Appraisal of the
- Badlands National Monument,” September 15, 1954, p. 1.
-
-[230]Ibid., pp. 3, 4.
-
-[231]Memorandum, NPS Acting Regional Director McLaughlin to the NPS
- Director, April 20, 1955; Resolutions: Clark Chamber of Commerce,
- J.W. Lockhart, Secretary, December 16, 1953; Black Hills and
- Badlands Association, G.W. Mills, President, December 2, 1953.
-
-[232]Development Outline, Badlands National Monument (1947), February
- 28, 1947, p. 14; Tract map of Badlands National Monument, South
- Dakota R-1, Dates: January 21, 1936, September 1936, and June 30,
- 1939; Memorandums: NPS Regional Director Baker to the NPS Director,
- October 28, 1952; NPS Acting Regional Director McLaughlin to the NPS
- Director, April 20, 1955.
-
-[233]Murie, op. cit., p. 7.
-
-[234]Minutes of Open Meeting Concerning Badlands Boundary Revisions,
- Wall, South Dakota, April 12, 1956; Memorandum, NPS Regional
- Director Baker to the NPS Director, April 17, 1956.
-
-[235]Federal Register, March 29, 1957, pp. 2052, 2053; Minutes of Open
- Meeting Concerning Badlands Boundary Revisions, Wall, South Dakota,
- April 12, 1956; Badlands National Monument Land Ownership Record,
- Deed 182, April 1958.
-
-[236]Information from Badlands National Monument files, December 1967.
-
-[237]Letter, Joy J. Deuser, Chief, Regional Land Management Division,
- SCS, to NPS Regional Director Baker, December 10, 1953.
-
-[238]Grazing History, op. cit., Appendix p. 30.
-
-[239]Ibid., pp. 6-9.
-
-[240]“Summary of Mission 66 Objectives and Program for Badlands National
- Monument,” NPS Region Two, Omaha, Nebraska, April 6, 1956;
- Superintendent’s Annual Reports, Fiscal Years, 1956-1961.
-
-[241]Badlands National Monument Land Ownership Record, Deed No. 178,
- August 25, 1955.
-
-[242]Superintendent’s Monthly Narrative Report for May 1959.
-
-[243]Superintendent’s Monthly Narrative Report for November 1960.
-
-[244]Badlands National Monument Museum Accession Book.
-
-[245]Ibid.; Letter, Harold Martin, Museum of Geology to John J. Palmer,
- November 21, 1960.
-
-[246]Superintendent’s Monthly Narrative Report for June 1958.
-
-[247]Superintendent’s Monthly Narrative Reports prior to 1959;
- Information from Elloween M. Saunders, Secretary, Badlands National
- Monument, February 9, 1968.
-
-[248]Superintendent’s Monthly Narrative Report for September 1959.
-
-[249]Ibid.; Superintendent’s Monthly Narrative Report for August 1959.
-
-[250]Superintendent’s Annual Narrative Reports, Fiscal Years 1962, 1963.
-
-[251]Ibid.
-
-[252]Grazing History, op. cit., pp. 13, 14.
-
-[253]Ibid., p. 15.
-
-[254]Ibid., pp. 15-19: Superintendent’s Monthly Narrative Report for
- November 1961.
-
-[255]Grazing History, op. cit., p. 19.
-
-[256]Information from Chief Park Ranger Hazeltine, February 9, 1968.
-
-[257]Grazing History, op. cit., pp. 16-20.
-
-[258]Ibid., p. 19.
-
-[259]Knoles, op. cit., p. 5.
-
-[260]“Badlands National Monument Extension, South Dakota—R-1,” op. cit.,
- p. 5.
-
-[261]Memorandums, NPS Regional Director Baker to the NPS Director,
- October 28, 1952, and January 16, 1953.
-
-[262]Murie, op. cit., p. 17.
-
-[263]Ibid.
-
-[264]Badlands National Monument Annual Wildlife Census Reports,
- 1943-1946; Superintendent’s Monthly Narrative Report for May 1959.
-
-[265]“Long Range Wildlife and Range Management Plan, Badlands National
- Monument for Period 1965-1969,” p. 6.
-
-[266]Ibid.; “Badlands Wildlife Restoration Plan,” September 9, 1965;
- Superintendent’s Monthly Narrative Reports for November 1963 and
- October 1964; Information from Chief Park Ranger Hazeltine, February
- 10, 1968.
-
-[267]Information from Chief Park Ranger Hazeltine, February 10, 1968.
-
-[268]Knoles, op. cit., p. 20: “Badlands Wildlife Restoration Plan,” op.
- cit.
-
-[269]“Badlands Wildlife Restoration Plan,” op. cit.
-
-[270]Superintendent’s Monthly Narrative Reports for January and February
- 1964.
-
-[271]Information from Chief Park Ranger Hazeltine, November 1967.
-
-[272]Superintendent’s Monthly Narrative Report for February 1964.
-
-[273]Badlands Monthly Public Use Reports, 1939-1967: “Bad Lands Becomes
- National Monument,” The Rapid City Daily Journal, January 28, 1939.
-
-[274]Hillory A. Tolson, comp., National Park Service Officials, U.S.
- Department of the Interior, NPS, January 1, 1964, p. 41.
-
-
-
-
- APPENDIX E
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- [Illustration: APPENDIX E Map of Badlands
- National Monument]
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-Title: The History of Badlands National Monument and the White River (Big) Badlands of South Dakota
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-<div id="cover" class="img">
-<img id="coverpage" src="images/cover.jpg" alt="History of Badlands National Monument" width="500" height="758" />
-</div>
-<p class="pcapc"><b>Cover Photo: THE CASTLE</b>, five miles west of Cedar Pass and just west of Norbeck
-Pass, is a spectacular saw-tooth ridge which was named by early local ranchers. The
-spires rise more than 200 feet above the Fossil Exhibit Trail (see <a href="#fig28">Figure 28</a>) and approximately
-450 feet above the lower grassland plains which are out of view on the left.
-The ridge is an eroded remnant of rock layers which formerly covered Badlands National
-Monument and surrounding areas.</p>
-<div class="box">
-<h1><span class="ss">HISTORY
-<br />OF
-<br />BADLANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT
-<br /><span class="small">and
-<br />The White River (Big) Badlands of South Dakota</span></span></h1>
-<p class="center small"><span class="ss">by
-<br />Ray H. Mattison
-<br />and
-<br />Robert A. Grom</span></p>
-<p class="center small"><span class="ss">edited by
-<br />Joanne W. Stockert</span></p>
-<div class="img">
-<img src="images/p01.jpg" alt="NATIONAL PARK SERVICE" width="400" height="218" />
-</div>
-<p class="center small"><span class="ss">Bulletin No. 1</span></p>
-<p class="center small"><span class="ss">Published 1968 by the
-<br />Badlands Natural History Association
-<br />Badlands National Monument
-<br />Interior, South Dakota 57750</span></p>
-</div>
-<p class="center smaller"><span class="ssn">Printed at Rapid City, South Dakota, U.S.A.
-<br />By Espe Printing Company
-<br />First Edition
-<br />Library of Congress Catalog Number: 68-19055</span></p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_4">4</div>
-<p class="tb">This booklet is published by the Badlands Natural History
-Association, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to assisting
-the National Park Service in its scientific, educational, historical,
-and interpretive activities at Badlands National
-Monument. Organized in April 1959, the association is
-incorporated under the laws of the State of South Dakota.
-It is recognized by the National Park Service, United States
-Department of the Interior, as an official cooperating organization.
-A list of mail-sales items handled by the
-association may be obtained free by sending a card or
-letter to the address shown on the title page.</p>
-<p>The Badlands Natural History Association wishes to thank
-the many local people who have contributed their know-how
-and resources in making this publication possible.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_5">5</div>
-<h2 id="toc" class="center">CONTENTS</h2>
-<dl class="toc">
-<dt><a href="#c1">Introduction</a> 7</dt>
-<dt><a href="#c2">Chronology of Badlands National Monument and the White River (Big) Badlands</a> 9</dt>
-<dt><a href="#c3">Early Indians and Explorers</a> 11</dt>
-<dt><a href="#c4">The Settlers Come</a> 23</dt>
-<dt><a href="#c5">Legislation for Park Establishment</a> 27</dt>
-<dt><a href="#c6">The Depression Years</a> 37</dt>
-<dt><a href="#c7">Early Development of the National Monument</a> 43</dt>
-<dt><a href="#c8">Mission 66 Development</a> 59</dt>
-<dt class="center"><span class="ss">APPENDIX</span></dt>
-<dt><a href="#c9">A Annual Visitor Use, 1938-1967</a> 65</dt>
-<dt><a href="#c10">B Custodians and Superintendents of Badlands National Monument</a> 67</dt>
-<dt><a href="#c11">C Picture Credits</a> 69</dt>
-<dt><a href="#c12">D Footnotes and References</a> 71</dt>
-<dt><a href="#c13">E Map of Badlands National Monument</a> 79</dt>
-</dl>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_7">7</div>
-<h2 id="c1"><span class="small">INTRODUCTION</span></h2>
-<p>In 1951 the National Park Service (NPS) launched the concept of
-developing a documented history for each unit of the national park system.
-Known since 1984 as &ldquo;park&rdquo; histories, the studies were to be general
-in scope, spanning the history of each area with emphasis on park
-origin, legislation, visitor use, and all aspects of management.</p>
-<p>Although sporadic research on local area history was done by the
-NPS in the 1950&rsquo;s and early 1960&rsquo;s, comprehensive research studies
-that finally led to a park history for Badlands National Monument did
-not start until 1964. In that year Ray H. Mattison, former Visitor Services
-Coordinator and Historian for the Midwest Region of the NPS, began
-the project by selecting some 300 pages of reference materials from
-the National Archives. Additional bibliographical materials were located
-in the Congressional Record, NPS historical files, and elsewhere.
-Former Chief Park Naturalist Robert A. Grom of Badlands National Monument
-did much in gathering photographs, maps, and historical data, and
-in writing additions and revising parts of the various drafts prepared
-by Mattison. By the end of 1965 a manuscript was completed, but publication
-was delayed. Mattison retired from the NPS in 1965 and Grom
-was transferred in May 1966.</p>
-<p>In 1967 more historical evidence came to light which resulted in
-the editing, updating, and expanding of the 1965 manuscript. Much
-of this work was done by Joanne W. Stockert, wife of the Chief Park
-Naturalist. Copies of all documents and references not found locally
-but which were used as bibliography in the final manuscript were
-obtained for the files or library of Badlands National Monument. For
-those who are interested in learning how this national monument has
-evolved to the present time, the Badlands Natural History Association
-has published this history with the hope that it will provide a basic
-source of historical information on Badlands National Monument.</p>
-<p><span class="lr">John W. Stockert</span>
-<span class="lr">Executive Secretary</span>
-<span class="lr">Badlands Natural History Association</span></p>
-<p>February 19, 1968</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_9">9</div>
-<h2 id="c2"><span class="small">CHRONOLOGY OF BADLANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT AND THE WHITE RIVER (BIG) BADLANDS OF SOUTH DAKOTA</span></h2>
-<dl class="undent"><dt>1823&mdash;First known party of white men, led by fur-trader Jedediah Smith, passed through the White River Badlands.</dt>
-<dt>1849&mdash;First scientific party, under Dr. John Evans, collected paleontological specimens from the Badlands.</dt>
-<dt>1855&mdash;The General William Harney Expedition, en route from Fort Laramie to Fort Pierre, passed through the present national monument.</dt>
-<dt>1868&mdash;Present western South Dakota reserved to the Sioux by Fort Laramie Treaty.</dt>
-<dt>1874&mdash;Dr. O. C. Marsh, distinguished Yale scientist, and party visited Badlands region.</dt>
-<dt>1890&mdash;Much of the Badlands restored to public domain to be opened eventually to white settlement.</dt>
-<dd class="t">A band of Sioux, under Chief Big Foot, passed through the area of the present national monument en route to Wounded Knee, where many were killed in battle with the army.</dd>
-<dt>1907&mdash;The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad built through Interior near southern boundary of area, The Chicago and North Western Railway constructed through Philip and Wall near northern boundary.</dt>
-<dt>1909&mdash;The South Dakota Legislature petitioned Congress to set aside a township in the Badlands region for a national park.</dt>
-<dt>1922&mdash;Senator Peter Norbeck introduced the first bill in Congress to make a portion of the Badlands a national park.</dt>
-<dt>1929&mdash;Badlands National Monument, comprising some 50,830 acres, authorized by Congress.</dt>
-<dt>1936&mdash;Law enacted authorizing enlargement of the proposed national monument to 250,000 acres by presidential proclamation.</dt>
-<dt>1939&mdash;Badlands National Monument, comprising about 150,000 acres, established by presidential proclamation.</dt>
-<dt>1952&mdash;Congress authorized reduction in size of national monument. Area reduced by about 27,000 acres.</dt>
-<dt>1957&mdash;Area further reduced by approximately 11,000 acres, leaving the national monument with an official acreage of 111,529.82 acres.</dt>
-<dt>1959&mdash;Visitor center completed.</dt>
-<dd class="t">Badlands National Monument dedicated by Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton.</dd>
-<dt>1963&mdash;Bison reintroduced to the Badlands.</dt>
-<dt>1964&mdash;Bighorn reintroduced to the Badlands.</dt>
-<dd class="t">Cedar Pass Lodge acquired by the National Park Service.</dd></dl>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_10">10</div>
-<div class="img" id="fig1">
-<img src="images/p02.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="542" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 1<span class="center"> LES MAUVAISES TERRES, NEBRASKA</span></p>
-<p class="pcapc">This is the earliest published view of the White River Badlands. The sketch was made in 1849 by Dr. John
-Evans when he was in the field with the Owen Geological Survey. The region at that time was a part of
-Nebraska Territory.</p>
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_11">11</div>
-<h2 id="c3"><span class="small">EARLY INDIANS AND EXPLORERS</span></h2>
-<p>Little is known of the prehistory of the region which comprises Badlands
-National Monument. The time of man&rsquo;s entry into the Badlands-Black
-Hills region is unknown. The oldest Indian site found in western
-South Dakota is in the Angostura Basin south of Hot Springs. Studies
-indicate it to be a little more than 7,000 years old. Evidence shows that
-these early people were big-game hunters who preyed upon mammoth,
-large bison, and other animals that lived in the lush post-glacial grasslands.<a class="fn" id="fr_1" href="#fn_1">[1]</a></p>
-<p>Firepits containing Indian artifacts have been found in the Pinnacles
-area of the national monument. Radiocarbon studies leave little doubt
-that hunters were already using this site by 900 A.D.<a class="fn" id="fr_2" href="#fn_2">[2]</a> More archeological
-research will probably show that man hunted and made his
-home in the Badlands long before that date.<a class="fn" id="fr_3" href="#fn_3">[3]</a></p>
-<p>Since about 1000 AD. the Black Hills area has been occupied by a
-number of nomadic Indian tribes. Some of these subsisted primarily
-by hunting, while others lived on local food plants. These tribes probably
-belonged to the Caddoan, Athabascan, Kiowa, and Shoshonean
-linguistic groups.<a class="fn" id="fr_4" href="#fn_4">[4]</a></p>
-<p>During the 18th century, parties of Arikara from the Missouri River
-went on buffalo hunts as far west as the Black Hills. There they met
-with the Comanche, Arapaho, Kiowa, and Cheyenne at trading fairs
-where they acquired horses. The Arikara, in turn, traded horses with
-the Teton Sioux who had been slowly migrating south and westward
-since about 1670 from the headwaters of the Mississippi River. Around
-1775 the Oglala and Brule, tribes of the Teton Sioux, moved west of the
-Missouri River to occupy respectively the Bad River country (around the
-present town of Philip, S.D.) and the region along the White River
-south of the Badlands. Because of their move from a timbered area
-to a plains region, the Sioux underwent great adjustment. As the result
-of acquiring guns from the whites and horses from other tribes, the Sioux
-became primarily a nomadic people, dependent on buffalo for sustenance.<a class="fn" id="fr_5" href="#fn_5">[5]</a></p>
-<p>For more than a century prior to 1763, the upper Missouri Valley, including
-what is today Badlands National Monument, was under French
-control. Under terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1763 French possessions
-west of the Mississippi River were ceded to Spain. Spain returned the
-area, known as Louisiana, to France in 1800 in the secret Treaty of
-San Ildefonso.<a class="fn" id="fr_6" href="#fn_6">[6]</a> In 1803 the entire region, which included all of the
-present states of Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota,
-plus parts of eight other states, was purchased by the United States from
-France for $15,000,000.</p>
-<p>The early French-Canadian trappers called the region, which includes
-the present day national monument, <b>Les Mauvaises terres a
-traverser</b>, which translated means &ldquo;bad lands to travel across.&rdquo; Other
-traders applied the term &ldquo;bad lands&rdquo; to this locality as well as to any
-section of the prairie country &ldquo;where roads are difficult....&rdquo; The Dakota
-Indians called the region <b>Mako Sica</b> (mako, land; sica, bad).<a class="fn" id="fr_7" href="#fn_7">[7]</a></p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_12">12</div>
-<p>Father Pierre-Jean de Smet called the White River <b>Mankizita-Watpa</b>.
-This Indian word commonly means &ldquo;white earth river,&rdquo; or more literally,
-&ldquo;smoking land river.&rdquo; The priest attributed the name to the river water
-which he wrote was &ldquo;impregnated with a whitish slime.&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_8" href="#fn_8">[8]</a></p>
-<p>Early American trappers and traders called the attention of the
-world to the unusual geological features and extensive fossil deposits
-of the Badlands along the White River. The earliest known description
-of the region, believed to be the White River Badlands, is that of James
-Clyman, a member of Jedediah Smith&rsquo;s 11-man party, who passed
-through the area in 1823. Clyman described it as</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>... a tract of county whare no vegetation of any kind existed
-beeing worn into knobs and gullies and extremely uneven ... a
-loose grayish coloured soil verry soluble in water running thick
-as it could move of a pale whitish coular and remarkably adhesive ...
-there [came] on a misty rain while we were in this pile
-of ashes [bad-lands west of the South Fork of the Cheyenne
-River] and it loded down our horses feet (feet) in great lumps
-it looked a little remarkable that not a foot of level land could
-be found the narrow revines going in all manner of directions
-and the cobble mound[s] of a regular taper from top to bottom
-all of them of the percise same angle and the tops sharp ... the
-whole of this region is moveing to the Misourie River as fast as
-rain and thawing of Snow can carry it....<a class="fn" id="fr_9" href="#fn_9">[9]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>When Maximilian, Prince of Wied, returned to Fort Pierre in 1834
-after making his historic journey up the Missouri with Charles Bodmer,
-William Laidlaw, the trader of the fort, gave him a description of the
-Badlands. The German prince wrote:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>... I much regretted that I could not remain long enough to
-visit the interesting tract of the Mauvaises Terres, which is some
-days&rsquo; journey from hence. Mr. Laidlow [sic], who had been
-there in the winter, gave me a description of it. It is two days&rsquo;
-journey, he said, south-west of Fort Pierre, and forms, in the
-level prairie, an accumulation of hills of most remarkable forms,
-looking like fortresses, churches, villages and ruins, and doubtless
-consisting of the same sand-stone as the conformations near
-the Stone Walls. He further stated that the bighorn abounds
-in that tract.<a class="fn" id="fr_10" href="#fn_10">[10]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>Father de Smet visited the Badlands region in 1848. He described it as</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>... the most extraordinary of any I have met in my journeys
-through the wilderness.... Viewed at a distance, these lands
-exhibit the appearance of extensive villages and ancient castles,
-but under forms so extraordinary, and so capricious a style of
-architecture, that we might consider them as appertaining to
-some new world, or ages far remote.<a class="fn" id="fr_11" href="#fn_11">[11]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>The Jesuit noted further, &ldquo;The industry of the settler will never succeed
-in cultivating and planting this fluctuating and sterile soil....&rdquo;
-However, he believed that the fossil deposits in the region would be of
-interest to the geologist and the naturalist.<a class="fn" id="fr_12" href="#fn_12">[12]</a></p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_13">13</div>
-<div class="img" id="fig2">
-<img src="images/p03.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="406" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 2<span class="center"> OREODONT SKELETON</span></p>
-<p class="pcapc">Oreodonts are the most common fossil mammals found in the Badlands. Several species
-of these now-extinct animals have been scientifically described.<a class="fn" id="fr_13" href="#fn_13">[13]</a></p>
-</div>
-<p>In the 1840&rsquo;s the reports of fossil remains in the White River Badlands
-aroused the curiosity of scientific circles in the East. In the fall
-of 1843(?) Alexander Culbertson, well-known fur trader of the American
-Fur Company, made a trip from Fort Pierre to Fort Laramie. Either on
-this particular trip or succeeding ones, he made a collection of fossils
-and bones in the Badlands.<a class="fn" id="fr_14" href="#fn_14">[14]</a> This collection provided the basis for the
-first scientific description of a Badlands fossil. The description was
-written by Dr. Hiram A. Prout of St. Louis, published in 1846, and printed
-again in 1847 with greater detail. The paper described a lower-jaw fragment
-of a large rhinoceros-like animal which later was given the common
-name <b>titanothere</b> by Dr. Joseph Leidy in 1852. Another fossil from this
-same collection, a fragment of an ancestral camel, was also described
-in 1847 by Dr. Leidy, who in a few years became the authority on Badlands
-fossils and an outstanding paleontologist.<a class="fn" id="fr_15" href="#fn_15">[15]</a> In the fall of 1847
-the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia became the first known
-institution to receive a collection of fossils from this region.<a class="fn" id="fr_16" href="#fn_16">[16]</a></p>
-<p>In 1848 another deposit to this institution, made by Culbertson&rsquo;s
-father, Joseph, included &ldquo;a new fossil genus of Mammalia, found near
-the &lsquo;Black Hills&rsquo;....&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_17" href="#fn_17">[17]</a> These deposits aroused such interest that in
-1849 United States Geologist David Dale Owen sent his assistant, Dr.
-John Evans, to the Badlands.<a class="fn" id="fr_18" href="#fn_18">[18]</a></p>
-<p>Dr. Evans, accompanied by a fellow geologist, &ldquo;five Canadian
-travelers who were to be our muleteers and cooks, and finally an Indian
-guide and an interpreter,&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_19" href="#fn_19">[19]</a> set out westward from Fort Pierre after
-traveling by steamboat from St. Louis. Following five days of overland
-travel they reached the Badlands. One of the party was a Frenchman,
-E. de Girardin, a soldier of fortune employed as an artist on the expedition.
-His story of the trip was published in 1864 in a French travel
-magazine, <b>Le Tour du Monde</b>. After climbing a hill about a hundred
-meters (about 330 feet) high, he beheld &ldquo;the strangest and most incomprehensible
-view.&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_20" href="#fn_20">[20]</a> (See <a href="#fig4">Figure 4</a>.)</p>
-<blockquote>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_14">14</div>
-<p>At the horizon, at the end of an immense plain and tinted rose
-by the reflection of the setting sun, a city in ruins appears to us,
-an immense city surrounded by walls and bulwarks, filled by a
-palace crowned with gigantic domes and monuments of the
-most fantastic and bizarre architecture. At intervals on a soil
-white as snow rise embattled chateaus of brick red, pyramids
-with their sharp-pointed summits topped with shapeless masses
-which seem to rock in the wind, a pillar of a hundred meters
-rises in the midst of this chaos of ruins like a gigantic lighthouse.<a class="fn" id="fr_21" href="#fn_21">[21]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>De Girardin was also impressed by the large deposits of fossil remains
-in the area. &ldquo;The soil is formed here and there of a thick bed of
-petrified bones,&rdquo; he wrote, &ldquo;sometimes in a state perfectly preserved,
-sometimes broken and reduced to dust.&rdquo; The party discovered &ldquo;petrified
-turtles,&rdquo; some of which were &ldquo;admirably preserved and weighing
-up to 150 pounds....&rdquo; The expedition also found &ldquo;a head of a rhinoceros
-equally petrified, and the jawbone of a dog or wolf of a special
-kind, furnished with all its teeth.&rdquo; At places the scientists located &ldquo;heaps
-of teeth and scraps of broken jawbones; ... bones and vertebrae of the
-oreodon, the mastdon [sic] and the elephant.&rdquo; However, after exploring
-for three days in the region without having discovered &ldquo;the elephants,
-the buffaloes, and the petrified men of which they had spoken to us so
-much,&rdquo; the party began its journey back to Fort Pierre.<a class="fn" id="fr_22" href="#fn_22">[22]</a></p>
-<p>Dr. Evans himself was not only impressed by the scenic qualities of
-the Badlands but by the scientific importance of the region as well. He
-wrote:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>After leaving the locality on Sage Creek, affording the above-mentioned
-fossils, crossing that stream, and proceeding in the
-direction of White River, about twelve or fifteen miles, the formation
-of the Mauvaises Terres proper bursts into view, disclosing
-as here depicted, one of the most extraordinary and picturesque
-sights that can be found in the whole Missouri country.</p>
-<p>From the high prairies, that rise in the background, by a series
-of terraces or benches, towards the spurs of the Rocky Mountains,
-the traveller looks down into an extensive valley, that may
-be said to constitute a world of its own, and which appears to
-have been formed, partly by an extensive vertical fault, partly
-by the long-continued influence of the scooping action of denudation.</p>
-<p>The width of this valley may be about thirty miles, and its whole
-length about ninety, as it stretches away westwardly, towards
-the base of the gloomy and dark range of mountains known as
-the Black Hills. Its most depressed portion, three hundred feet
-below the general level of the surrounding country, is clothed
-with scanty grasses, and covered by a soil similar to that of the
-higher ground.</p>
-<p>To the surrounding country, however, the Mauvaises Terres present
-the most striking contrast. From the uniform, monotonous,
-<span class="pb" id="Page_15">15</span>
-open prairie, the traveller suddenly descends, one or two hundred
-feet, into a valley that looks as if it had sunk away from the
-surrounding world; leaving standing, all over it, thousands of
-abrupt, irregular, prismatic, and columnar masses, frequently
-capped with irregular pyramids, and stretching up to a height
-of from one to two hundred feet, or more.</p>
-<p>So thickly are these natural towers studded over the surface of
-this extraordinary region, that the traveller threads his way
-through deep, confined, labyrinthine passages, not unlike the
-narrow, irregular streets and lanes of some quaint old town of
-the European Continent. Viewed in the distance, indeed, these
-rocky piles, in their endless succession, assume the appearance
-of massive, artificial structures, decked out with all the accessories
-of buttress and turret, arched doorway and clustered shaft,
-pinnacle, and finial, and tapering spire.</p>
-<p>One might almost imagine oneself approaching some magnificent
-city of the dead, where the labour and the genius of forgotten
-nations had left behind them a multitude of monuments of
-art and skill.<a class="fn" id="fr_23" href="#fn_23">[23]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>Dr. Evans was equally awed by the rich paleontological deposits
-of the Badlands region. After describing the extreme heat of the region,
-he continued:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>At every step, objects of the highest interest present themselves.
-Embedded in the debris, lie strewn, in the greatest profusion,
-organic relics of extinct animals. All speak of a vast freshwater
-deposit of the early Tertiary Period, and disclose the
-former existence of most remarkable races, that roamed about
-in bygone ages high up in the Valley of the Missouri, towards
-the sources of its western tributaries; where now pastures the
-big-horned <b>Ovis montana</b>, the shaggy buffalo or American bison,
-and the elegant and slenderly-constructed antelope.</p>
-<p>Every specimen as yet brought from the Bad Lands, proves to
-be of species that became exterminated before the mammoth
-and mastodon lived, and differ in their specific character, not
-alone from all living animals, but also from all fossils obtained
-even from cotemporaneous [sic] geological formations elsewhere.<a class="fn" id="fr_24" href="#fn_24">[24]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>Dr. Evans drew a map (See <a href="#fig3">Figure 3</a>) of <b>Mauvaises Terres</b> (Bad
-Lands) and Dr. Joseph Leidy prepared a catalog as well as sketches of
-the most significant fossils the Owen Geological Survey Party found on
-its journey to the region.<a class="fn" id="fr_25" href="#fn_25">[25]</a></p>
-<p>In 1850 Spencer F. Baird of the Smithsonian Institution arranged
-for Thaddeus Culbertson, a younger brother of Alexander Culbertson,
-to visit the Badlands under the auspices of the Institution. Born in 1823
-at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, young Culbertson, a student at Princeton
-Theological Seminary, set out with his brother, Alexander, from
-Chambersburg in mid-February. The brothers left St. Louis by steamboat
-on March 19 and arrived at Fort Pierre May 4. With his brother
-supplying the equipment, Thaddeus and two others set out from the
-fur-trading establishment three days later. On May 11 they encamped
-at Sage Creek in the White River Badlands.<a class="fn" id="fr_26" href="#fn_26">[26]</a></p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_16">16</div>
-<div class="img" id="fig3">
-<img src="images/p04.jpg" alt="" width="614" height="800" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 3<span class="center"> AN EARLY MAP OF THE WHITE RIVER BAD LANDS</span></p>
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_17">17</div>
-<p>Culbertson, too, was very much impressed by the Badlands as he
-approached them:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>The road now lay over hills which became more steep and frequent
-as we approached the Bad Lands. These occasionally
-appeared in the distance and never before did I see anything
-that so resembled a large city; so complete was this deception
-that I could point out the public buildings; one appeared to have
-a large dome which might be the town Hall; another would have
-a large angular, cone shape top, which would suggest the court
-house or some magnificent buildings for public purposes: then
-would appear a long row of palaces, great in number and superb
-in all their arrangements. Indeed the thought frequently
-occurred as we rode along that at a distance this portion of the
-grounds looked like a city of palaces&mdash;everything arranged
-upon the grandest scale and adapted for the habitation, not
-of pigmies such as now inhabit the earth, but of giants such as
-would be fit to rule over the immense animals whose remains
-are still found there.<a class="fn" id="fr_27" href="#fn_27">[27]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>Culbertson was also moved by the complete desolation of the Badlands:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>Fancy yourself on the hottest day in summer in the hottest spot
-of such a place without water&mdash;without an animal and scarce an
-insect astir&mdash;without a single flower to speak pleasant things
-to you and you will have some idea of the utter loneliness of
-the Bad Lands.<a class="fn" id="fr_28" href="#fn_28">[28]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>The young scientist was disappointed, however, with the fossils. Instead
-of finding well-preserved skeletons of different animals, he located
-only the imperfect remains of several turtles, a number of excellent teeth
-and jawbones, and several good skulls of animals.<a class="fn" id="fr_29" href="#fn_29">[29]</a></p>
-<p>After rejoining his brother at Fort Pierre, young Culbertson proceeded
-up the river to Fort Union. On his trip he collected not only fossils but
-skulls, skins, and skeletons of buffalo, grizzly bear, white wolf, prairie
-wolf, and other animals. He also collected plants along the Missouri.
-Surprisingly, the fossil remains Culbertson collected were declared by
-Baird as &ldquo;an exceedingly interesting series of Mammalian and Reptilian
-species including many that had never been described.&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_30" href="#fn_30">[30]</a></p>
-<p>In poor health, young Culbertson died in late August 1850, soon
-after his return to Chambersburg.<a class="fn" id="fr_31" href="#fn_31">[31]</a></p>
-<p>In 1853 two geologists, Dr. F.V. Hayden and F.B. Meek, visited the
-Badlands region. Both were to receive national recognition later as distinguished
-scientists. They spent several days at Sage Creek, noted by
-travellers for the purgative qualities of its water. Both men and their
-horses experienced a weakening effect after drinking from the stream.<a class="fn" id="fr_32" href="#fn_32">[32]</a></p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_18">18</div>
-<p>Brevet Brigadier-General William S. Harney&rsquo;s expedition, in its
-punitive campaign against the Brule Sioux in 1855, crossed overland
-through a portion of the Badlands en route from Fort Laramie (old Ft.
-William) to Fort Pierre (old Fort Tecumseh) on the Missouri. Accompanying
-the expedition were Lt. G.K. Warren, U.S. topographical engineer,
-and Dr. Hayden who had visited the Badlands region two years earlier.<a class="fn" id="fr_33" href="#fn_33">[33]</a></p>
-<div class="img" id="fig4">
-<img src="images/p05.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="614" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 4<span class="center"> REMAINS OF THE FORT LARAMIE-FORT PIERRE TRAIL</span></p>
-<p class="pcapc">Here, just outside the most northern boundary of the present national monument, it is
-believed E. de Girardin made his poetic observations of the Badlands on the horizon,
-as recorded on <a href="#Page_14">page 14</a>. Wagon-wheel ruts along the old trail&mdash;in the foreground&mdash;can
-still be traced for miles in unplowed terrain.</p>
-</div>
-<p>Warren was authorized to map the trail over which the expedition
-passed. This route, which crosses the western edge of Badlands National
-Monument, had been used since at least the early 1830&rsquo;s primarily by
-trappers and traders to transport furs and supplies between the two forts.
-Fort Pierre was abandoned as a military post in early 1857 soon after
-the route was mapped, and the trail fell into disuse as a major overland
-thoroughfare.<a class="fn" id="fr_34" href="#fn_34">[34]</a> Remains of this historic route can still be seen.</p>
-<p>Dr. Hayden and his party camped on Bear Creek, west of the present
-national monument, where Alexander Culbertson, Dr. Evans, and others
-had obtained their valuable collections in the 1840&rsquo;s. Dr. Hayden wrote,
-&ldquo;We spent five days at this locality, and with the mammalian remains
-already collected in other places, our carts were loaded to their utmost.&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_35" href="#fn_35">[35]</a>
-Unlike his predecessors who had visited the region, Hayden
-was favorably impressed by the White River region. &ldquo;Contrasted with
-<span class="pb" id="Page_19">19</span>
-most of the country on the upper Missouri, The White river valley is a
-paradise, and the Indians consider it one of the choice spots of earth.&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_36" href="#fn_36">[36]</a></p>
-<p>Hayden revisited the White River Badlands in 1857 and in the 1860&rsquo;s.
-His records may be found in government reports and in several scientific
-publications.<a class="fn" id="fr_37" href="#fn_37">[37]</a></p>
-<p>Captain John B.S. Todd, a cousin of the wife of Abraham Lincoln
-and later governor of Dakota Territory, also accompanied the Harney
-Expedition of 1855 and was impressed by the scenic grandeur of the
-Badlands.<a class="fn" id="fr_38" href="#fn_38">[38]</a> On October 12, the day the expedition broke camp at Ash
-Grove Spring (now known as Harney Spring) southeast of Sheep Mountain
-Table, he recorded in his journal:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>After leaving camp, we continued to ascend the gentle slope
-upon which it had been pitched, for nearly a mile, and on reaching
-the crest, the most superbly grand and beautiful sight burst
-upon our view, that my eye ever rested upon. Down for a thousand
-feet and more, the road abruptly wound into the valley
-below; while far away, on all sides, spread this magnificent
-panorama of mountain precipice and vale&mdash;solitary, grand,
-chaotic, as it came from the hands of Him &ldquo;who doeth all things
-well.&rdquo; What a scene for the painter, what a wonderous field for
-the Naturalist!<a class="fn" id="fr_39" href="#fn_39">[39]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>Todd also described &ldquo;the remains of turtle, petrified, of all sizes,
-shattered and perfect, some not larger than the crown of a hat, others
-of huge proportions....&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_40" href="#fn_40">[40]</a></p>
-<p>Beginning in 1870 other organizations began making important collections.
-Among these were the United States Geological Survey, Yale
-University, Princeton University, American Museum of Natural History,
-University of Nebraska, Carnegie Museum, University of South Dakota,
-and the South Dakota State School of Mines and Technology.<a class="fn" id="fr_41" href="#fn_41">[41]</a></p>
-<p>In 1874 the Badlands were visited by the distinguished paleontologist
-Dr. O.C. Marsh of Yale University and his party. At that time the Indians
-in the region were in a very ugly temper as a result of the discovery of
-gold in the Black Hills by the Custer Expedition. Guaranteed much of
-present northwestern Nebraska and all of South Dakota west of the
-Missouri by the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, they regarded white visitors
-to the western Dakota region as intruders. Accompanied by an army
-escort, Dr. Marsh and his party slipped into the reservation through the
-Red Cloud Agency (located along the banks of the White River near
-the present town of Crawford, Nebraska) at night without arousing the
-Indian sentinels and reached the fossil region. Hurriedly gathering and
-packing its specimens, the party returned to the agency less than 24
-hours before a war party scoured the region for &ldquo;the Big Bone Chief.&rdquo;
-At the agency, Chief Red Cloud informed Dr. Marsh of the manner in
-which the Indian Bureau was fleecing the Indians in their rations. Dr.
-Marsh carried this information to Washington, which resulted in a Congressional
-investigation of the agency.<a class="fn" id="fr_42" href="#fn_42">[42]</a></p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_20">20</div>
-<div class="img" id="fig5">
-<img src="images/p06.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="349" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 5<span class="center"> MUSEUM OF GEOLOGY, SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY</span></p>
-<p class="pcapc">The finest exhibits of Badlands fossils are on display in this museum. It is open to the public without
-charge throughout the year.</p>
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_21">21</div>
-<p>Mr. John Bell Hatcher did much of the collecting for Dr. Marsh, under
-the auspices of the United States Geological Survey, and is considered
-to be one of the most successful and original of all collectors who have
-worked in the Badlands.<a class="fn" id="fr_43" href="#fn_43">[43]</a> He is responsible for beginning the practice
-of collecting and preserving complete skeletons of fossilized animals.<a class="fn" id="fr_44" href="#fn_44">[44]</a></p>
-<p>While considerable collecting of fossils in the Badlands has been
-done by various organizations since 1870, it was conducted in a somewhat
-random manner at first. Since 1899 the South Dakota State School
-of Mines and Technology has sent students into the Badlands for brief
-field studies.<a class="fn" id="fr_45" href="#fn_45">[45]</a> However, it was not until 1924 that a systematic means of
-collecting fossils in the Badlands was begun by a Princeton University
-professor, Glenn L. Jepsen, who was studying at the South Dakota State
-School of Mines and Technology. He organized the first School of Mines
-Badlands Expedition, which met with immediate success and laid the
-foundation for the present extensive paleontological collections of that
-school (See <a href="#fig5">Figure 5</a>).<a class="fn" id="fr_46" href="#fn_46">[46]</a></p>
-<p>For many years large herds of bison roamed the Badlands during
-the summer months. About 1861, the year that the Dakota Territory was
-established, a drought began and continued for three years. The buffalo
-which used the region as their summer range left during that period.
-After the passing of the drought years, the herds, which had been driven
-far to the west by hunters, returned only in small bands. For a time great
-herds of mountain sheep, elk, antelope, whitetail and mule deer continued
-to roam the area in large numbers. The elk wintered in the
-southern Black Hills and went down into the Badlands in early spring.
-In 1877 residents of the Rapid City area and market hunters from the
-gold camps in the northern Black Hills killed large numbers, which
-ended the elk migration to the Badlands. Antelope as well as whitetail
-and mule deer were killed by market hunters and settlers. The mountain
-sheep was the last of the big game animals to disappear.<a class="fn" id="fr_47" href="#fn_47">[47]</a></p>
-<div class="img" id="fig6">
-<img src="images/p07.jpg" alt="" width="585" height="800" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 6</p>
-<p class="pcapc">Jim Hart of Scenic, South Dakota, displays
-a trophy of an Audubon Bighorn Sheep
-shot on Sheep Mountain in 1903 by
-Charley Jones. These animals were last
-recorded on Sheep Mountain Table about
-1910 and are now extinct.<a class="fn" id="fr_48" href="#fn_48">[48]</a></p>
-</div>
-<p>Predatory animals such as coyotes, wolves, and black and grizzly
-bears were likewise common. Bears were exterminated early. It was
-<span class="pb" id="Page_22">22</span>
-during the second decade of this century that coyotes and wolves disappeared
-from the Badlands, largely as a result of the work of the
-Biological Survey in its predatory-animal extermination program.<a class="fn" id="fr_49" href="#fn_49">[49]</a></p>
-<div class="img" id="fig7">
-<img src="images/p08.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="406" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 7<span class="center"> GRAY WOLF</span></p>
-<p class="pcapc">Adult animals weigh between 70 and 120 pounds
-and are the largest of the wild dogs. They were
-last seen in the present Badlands National Monument
-around 1913.<a class="fn" id="fr_50" href="#fn_50">[50]</a></p>
-</div>
-<p>The region which comprises western Dakota was a part of the Great
-Sioux Reservation recognized as such by the Fort Laramie treaties of
-1851 and 1868. In the late nineteenth century the tide of white settlement
-had been steadily pushing westward. By an agreement on September
-26, 1876, later formalized by U.S. Statute, the Black Hills region was
-opened to white settlement. An Act of Congress approved on March 2,
-1889 (the same year South Dakota became a state), and proclaimed by
-President Harrison on February 10, 1890, restored to public domain the
-area between the White and Cheyenne Rivers. This included the present
-area of Badlands National Monument.<a class="fn" id="fr_51" href="#fn_51">[51]</a></p>
-<p>On December 24, 1890, after escaping from military surveillance at
-Camp Cheyenne on the Cheyenne River, Chief Big Foot and his band of
-Miniconjous Sioux fled through what is now Big Foot Pass in Badlands
-National Monument to the White River where they camped. When the
-Indians reached Pine Creek on December 28, they were intercepted by
-the army. In attempting to disarm them the next day, the military precipitated
-the infamous &ldquo;Wounded Knee Massacre&rdquo; of December 29, 1890,
-when more than 150 Indians and 39 whites were killed. This was the
-last major clash between Indians and the United States Army.<a class="fn" id="fr_52" href="#fn_52">[52]</a></p>
-<p>The famous western artist Frederic Remington was attached to a
-scouting party which went into the Badlands in search of Big Foot and his
-band. The first camp Remington made with the soldiers was on Christmas
-night with the thermometer well below zero. In an article written for
-<b>Harper&rsquo;s Weekly</b>, January 21, 1891, he described his trip into the region:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>It was twelve miles through the defiles of the Bad Lands to the
-blue ridge of the high mesa where the hostiles had lived. The
-trail was strewn with dead cattle, some of them having never
-been touched with a knife. Here and there a dead pony, ridden
-to a stand-still and left nerveless on the trail. No words of mine
-can describe these Bad Lands. They are somewhat as Dore
-pictured hell. One set of buttes, with cones and minarets, gives
-place in the next mile to natural freaks of a different variety,
-never dreamed of by mortal man. It is the action of water on
-clay; there are ashes or what looks like them. The painter&rsquo;s
-whole palette is in one bluff.<a class="fn" id="fr_53" href="#fn_53">[53]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_23">23</div>
-<h2 id="c4"><span class="small">THE SETTLERS COME</span></h2>
-<p>White settlement of the Badlands region was slow. Suited for
-grazing, the region in the 1890&rsquo;s was primarily the domain of cattlemen
-and sheepmen. At that time the region was surveyed by the Government.<a class="fn" id="fr_54" href="#fn_54">[54]</a></p>
-<div class="img" id="fig8">
-<img src="images/p08a.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="429" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 8<span class="center"> OLD INTERIOR, 1906</span></p>
-<p class="pcapc">Settled in about 1881, the town was known as Black until the name was changed
-around 1895. It was located about two miles southeast of the present town of Interior.
-In 1907, old Interior was abandoned in favor of the present townsite when the Milwaukee
-Road was built.<a class="fn" id="fr_55" href="#fn_55">[55]</a></p>
-</div>
-<p>Bruce Siberts, a Dakota cowboy, was in the Badlands several times
-during the early 1890&rsquo;s. He stated:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>The big pasture west of the Missouri that the Sioux had turned
-over to Uncle Sam had few ranchers in it when I went there in
-1890, but within another year or so there were all kinds of livestock
-roaming over it.<a class="fn" id="fr_56" href="#fn_56">[56]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>Siberts&rsquo; acquaintance with the Badlands was the result of his experience
-with cattle thieves who &ldquo;holed up&rdquo; there. The outlaws, after
-stealing Siberts&rsquo; cattle, drove them to the Badlands.</p>
-<p>Siberts started out in pursuit. During a week&rsquo;s stay in the Badlands,
-he saw thousands of head of stock, many of which were unbranded.
-Unable to recover his stolen cattle, he returned to his home on Plum
-Creek, a tributary of the Cheyenne River. He obtained a companion
-and went back to the Badlands. There the two men built several horse
-traps, captured a number of unbranded horses, branded them, and later
-sold the horses for $600.<a class="fn" id="fr_57" href="#fn_57">[57]</a> Siberts returned alone to the region the following
-year to obtain more unbranded horses, but lost his horses to
-outlaws. As a result he was left afoot many miles from home. Siberts
-succeeded in taking the horse of Bill Newsom, head of a group of cattle
-rustlers, and made his way to a railroad town in Nebraska. He returned
-to South Dakota by rail.<a class="fn" id="fr_58" href="#fn_58">[58]</a></p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_24">24</div>
-<div class="img" id="fig9">
-<img src="images/p09.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="601" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 9<span class="center"> FIRST TRAIN PENETRATING SOUTH DAKOTA BADLANDS, 1907</span></p>
-</div>
-<p>Isolated from natural transportation routes, few settlers moved into
-the region until the coming of railroads. In 1907 the Chicago and North
-Western Railway Company built its line from Pierre through Philip and
-Wall to Rapid City. During the same year, the Chicago, Milwaukee
-and St. Paul Railroad Company (now known as the Chicago, Milwaukee,
-St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company or, simply, the Milwaukee Road)
-completed its line from Chamberlain to Rapid City along the White River
-through Kadoka and Interior.<a class="fn" id="fr_59" href="#fn_59">[59]</a></p>
-<p>There was considerable homestead activity in 1906 under the original
-homestead law of 1862, despite the fact that the 160-acre farm unit was
-inadequate in the region. Leonel Jensen, a long-time resident in the
-vicinity of the Badlands, stated that when his father came to the region
-in May 1906 there were few homestead buildings. In the fall of that
-year there was a homestead shack on practically every quarter-section
-of land, because many settlers had anticipated the coming of the railroads.<a class="fn" id="fr_60" href="#fn_60">[60]</a>
-In 1912 the period to &ldquo;prove up&rdquo; on the lands was liberalized
-by changing the time of residence from five to three years. The Enlarged
-Homestead Act of 1909 was applied to South Dakota by Congress in
-1915, enabling settlers to acquire 320 acres instead of 160.<a class="fn" id="fr_61" href="#fn_61">[61]</a></p>
-<p>The homestead laws were liberalized again in 1916 by the enactment
-of the Stock-Raising Homestead Act. This provided for 640-acre homesteads
-on lands officially designated as nonirrigable grazing lands.<a class="fn" id="fr_63" href="#fn_63">[63]</a></p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_25">25</div>
-<div class="img" id="fig10">
-<img src="images/p09a.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="443" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 10<span class="center"> A BADLANDS HOMESTEAD</span></p>
-<p class="pcapc">Newly plowed sod marks the beginning of a farm in 1911 northwest of Interior near
-the badlands wall.</p>
-</div>
-<div class="img" id="fig11">
-<img src="images/p09b.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="483" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 11<span class="center"> GOOD GIRLS IN BAD LANDS S. D.</span></p>
-<p class="pcapc">Some Badlands homesteaders lived first in dugouts similar to the one belonging to the
-Josh Sullivan family as shown on this postcard mailed in 1909. It was located one half
-mile south of the present national monument boundary just off the Cedar Pass-Interior
-highway.<a class="fn" id="fr_62" href="#fn_62">[62]</a></p>
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_26">26</div>
-<div class="img" id="fig12">
-<img src="images/p10.jpg" alt="" width="629" height="700" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 12</p>
-<p class="pcapc">Lumber to build the Louis J. Jensen home, located just west of the Badlands, was hauled
-by rail from the Black Hills to Wall, South Dakota. Taken in 1908, this photograph
-represents a typical house of the Badlands homesteading era.<a class="fn" id="fr_68" href="#fn_68">[68]</a></p>
-</div>
-<p>From 1900 to 1905 the population in western South Dakota increased
-from 43,782 to 57,575; by 1910 it was 137,687.<a class="fn" id="fr_64" href="#fn_64">[64]</a> From 1910 to 1930 it continued
-to increase, but at a slower pace. In the decade following 1910
-the population of Pennington County increased slightly from 12,453 to
-12,720; by 1930 it was 20,079. In Jackson County, which contained no
-urban centers, the increase was much smaller. From 1920 to 1930 (no
-figures are available for 1910 to 1920) the population went from 2,472 to
-2,636.<a class="fn" id="fr_65" href="#fn_65">[65]</a> For a comparison with recent trends, the populations of Jackson
-and Pennington counties in 1960 were 1,985 and 58,195 respectively.<a class="fn" id="fr_66" href="#fn_66">[66]</a>
-(The western or 87 percent of the present Badlands National Monument is
-located in Pennington County; the eastern section is in Jackson County.)</p>
-<p>Between 1910 and 1920, increasing amounts of land in western South
-Dakota passed out of the public domain and into private ownership.
-Encouraged by the high prices for farm and ranch products resulting
-from World War I, many farmers and ranchers took advantage of the
-liberalized homestead acts. By 1922 less than half of the land which was
-later included in Badlands National Monument was publicly owned.<a class="fn" id="fr_67" href="#fn_67">[67]</a></p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_27">27</div>
-<h2 id="c5"><span class="small">LEGISLATION FOR PARK ESTABLISHMENT</span></h2>
-<p>Stimulated in part by various individuals and groups, the South Dakota
-Legislature in 1909 petitioned the federal government to establish
-a township of Badlands as a national park. As read before both houses
-of Congress on March 16, 1909, the petition stated in part:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>Whereas there is a small section of country about the headwaters
-of the White River in South Dakota where nature has
-carved the surface of the earth into most unique and interesting
-forms, and has exposed to an extent perhaps not elsewhere
-found; and</p>
-<p>Whereas this formation is so unique, picturesque, and valuable
-for the purpose of study that a portion of it should be retained
-in its native state....<a class="fn" id="fr_69" href="#fn_69">[69]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>However, no legislation was introduced on the proposal until more
-than a decade later.</p>
-<p>A 1919 report by the U.S. Forest Service recommended that the Badlands
-area be set aside as a national park. The report also recorded
-considerable tourist travel to the Badlands. &ldquo;The travel this year was
-several hundred times greater than in any former year....&rdquo; Many
-visitors came over state route 40 (the Washington Highway) which connects
-the towns of Interior and Scenic with Rapid City. This road was
-under construction in 1919 and followed, more or less, the Chicago, Milwaukee
-and St. Paul Railroad. Visitors also came on passenger trains.<a class="fn" id="fr_70" href="#fn_70">[70]</a></p>
-<p>However, accessibility to the scenic sections of the Badlands Wall
-from the Washington Highway were already being closed in 1919 by the
-construction of fences, except for a few low passes in the wall where side
-roads had been constructed. The Washington Highway and the railroad
-are both located two to six miles from the most picturesque Badlands
-features. The same report recommended that a road be built
-&ldquo;along the course of the scenic points of interest&rdquo; and that campgrounds
-should be constructed &ldquo;at well chosen camp sites.&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_71" href="#fn_71">[71]</a> (Such a road was
-completed 16 years later by the State of South Dakota; see <a href="#Page_43">page 43</a>).</p>
-<p>While other individuals and organizations played an important part
-in the establishment of Badlands National Monument, Senator Peter
-Norbeck deserves more credit than any other legislator. Norbeck was
-born on a farm in Clay County in southeastern South Dakota, August
-27, 1870, and was the son of a member of the 1871 Dakota Territorial
-Legislature. His public career began when he was elected to the state
-senate in 1908 and he served there until 1915. In 1914 Norbeck was voted
-lieutenant-governor of the state, and was elected governor in 1916 and
-1918. His achievements as governor were many, including the founding
-of a state-enterprise program designed to help farmers. Another of his
-great accomplishments was the establishment of Custer State Park.</p>
-<p>In 1920 Norbeck was elected to the United States Senate where he
-served continuously until his death in 1936. Although his chief interest
-was in farm-relief legislation, he was instrumental in passing the Migratory
-<span class="pb" id="Page_28">28</span>
-Bird Act of 1929 and in securing federal funds for the carving of
-Mount Rushmore National Memorial.<a class="fn" id="fr_72" href="#fn_72">[72]</a></p>
-<p>South Dakota&rsquo;s congressmen, William Williamson from Oacoma and
-Charles A. Christopherson from Sioux Falls, assisted Norbeck by their
-work in the U.S. House of Representatives. Christopherson&rsquo;s services
-in the House began in 1919, Williamson&rsquo;s in 1921.<a class="fn" id="fr_73" href="#fn_73">[73]</a></p>
-<div class="img" id="fig13">
-<img src="images/p11.jpg" alt="" width="563" height="900" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 13<span class="center"> EARLY ROAD THROUGH CEDAR PASS, 1908 or earlier</span></p>
-</div>
-<p>On May 2, 1922, during the second session of the 67th Congress,
-Senator Norbeck introduced the first bill (S. 3541) for making the Badlands
-area a national park. Entitled &ldquo;A bill to establish the Wonderland
-National Park in the State of South Dakota,&rdquo; it proposed to set aside and
-withdraw from entry &ldquo;all public lands lying and being within townships
-two and three south, ranges fifteen and sixteen east of the Black Hills
-meridian, and township three south, ranges seventeen, eighteen, and
-nineteen east of the Black Hills meridian.&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_74" href="#fn_74">[74]</a> The proposal provided that
-the Secretary of the Interior might add to the park from time to time any
-lands which may be donated to the United States for such purposes. It
-also stated that the Secretary of the Interior may authorize exchange of
-non-federal lands in the park for certain public lands of equal value outside
-the park. Finally, the bill provided that a sum not exceeding $5,000
-annually be appropriated by Congress for the maintenance and improvement
-of the park, if the State of South Dakota made an equal contribution.
-After the bill was read, it was referred to the Committee of Public Lands
-and Surveys.<a class="fn" id="fr_75" href="#fn_75">[75]</a></p>
-<p>On the same day, Congressman Williamson introduced a bill (H.R.
-11514) in the House of Representatives, identical to the first one submitted
-<span class="pb" id="Page_29">29</span>
-by Norbeck in the Senate. This bill was referred to the Committee on
-the Public Lands and ordered to be printed.<a class="fn" id="fr_76" href="#fn_76">[76]</a> No further action was
-taken on either the Norbeck or Williamson bills in the 67th Congress.</p>
-<p>However, in October 1922 President Harding issued an executive
-order temporarily withdrawing all public lands in the seven townships
-to be included in the proposed park for the purpose of classifying them
-&ldquo;pending enactment of appropriate legislation.&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_77" href="#fn_77">[77]</a> The total area within
-the seven townships was about 161,000 acres, of which 35,410 were classified
-as vacant.<a class="fn" id="fr_78" href="#fn_78">[78]</a></p>
-<p>On March 3, 1923, Congressmen Christopherson and Williamson
-presented memorials from &ldquo;the Legislature of the State of South Dakota
-urging Congress to set aside the Bad Lands as a national park....&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_79" href="#fn_79">[79]</a></p>
-<p>In December 1923, in the 68th Congress, Williamson again introduced
-a bill (H.R. 2810) to establish Wonderland National Park. This proposal
-was identical to the one he and Norbeck introduced in the preceding
-Congress.<a class="fn" id="fr_80" href="#fn_80">[80]</a> Like the earlier bill it, too, died in committee.</p>
-<p>If the Norbeck papers, now at the University of South Dakota, are any
-indication of the public support the Senator received for his park proposal,
-only a few people in the early 1920&rsquo;s shared his views. Attorney General
-Byron S. Payne of South Dakota, Professor W.C. Toepelman of the
-University of South Dakota Geology Department, and W.H. Tompkins of
-the U.S. Land Office in Rapid City, all endorsed the Wonderland National
-Park proposal.<a class="fn" id="fr_81" href="#fn_81">[81]</a> However, at that time the highways were relatively
-undeveloped. The automobile industry and tourism were both
-in their infancies. It was to take nearly another decade to gain the support
-of local and state chambers of commerce and other promotional
-groups for national parks and monuments.</p>
-<p>It appears that the National Park Service did not give Norbeck encouragement
-for his idea of a national park in the Badlands. In a letter
-to a constituent in May 1924, the Senator wrote:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>... regarding the Bad Lands National Park, [I] will state that the
-Park Service here will not approve a bill of that kind,&mdash;and
-therefore, we can not secure the legislation. They are, however,
-willing to approve the plan of having it designated by the President
-as a &ldquo;National Monument&rdquo;. In practice, this means nearly
-the same thing, so Congressman Williamson and I have come
-to an agreement that we are going to accept that plan and work
-it out that way.<a class="fn" id="fr_82" href="#fn_82">[82]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>Nevertheless, Norbeck continued to work for a national park instead
-of a national monument.</p>
-<p>To insure that he would include the most scenic parts of the region
-in the proposed park, Norbeck made frequent trips there. In answer to
-a constituent&rsquo;s letter, he wrote in November 1927, &ldquo;I have visited the Bad
-Lands every year for sixteen years. A year ago I spent four or five days
-in them and this year I have made five trips into that area.&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_84" href="#fn_84">[84]</a>
-During 1927 a number of eastern newspapers carried photographs of the Badlands
-in their Sunday photo sections.<a class="fn" id="fr_85" href="#fn_85">[85]</a></p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_30">30</div>
-<div class="img" id="fig14">
-<img src="images/p12.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="445" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 14<span class="center"> VAMPIRE PEAK, 1930&rsquo;s</span></p>
-<p class="pcapc">Located near the present national monument visitor center, the peak has since lost its
-spires to erosion. According to local tradition the presence of bats around the formation
-caused J.I. Peterkin, a traveling artist, to give it this name around 1915.<a class="fn" id="fr_83" href="#fn_83">[83]</a></p>
-</div>
-<p>In the late 1920&rsquo;s Badlands visitors who arrived from the east via
-Kadoka or Cottonwood probably used Cedar Pass. The narrow and
-precipitous route through Cedar Pass was aptly described by one of
-those early visitors:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>The passes become more crooked and the grades more steep.
-The road is bordered by profuse scrub cedar trees. There is a
-thrill in that drive! At first it looks dangerous, but the danger
-seems to minimize as we approach each more steep and more
-crooked and more narrow section. By taking it slowly the risk
-is small.<a class="fn" id="fr_86" href="#fn_86">[86]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>The route passed the new Cedar Pass Camp (now Cedar Pass Lodge)
-and took visitors to the railroad town of Interior where they may have
-spent some time at Palmer&rsquo;s Curio shop and at Henry Thompson&rsquo;s souvenir
-stand which he called &ldquo;The Wonderland.&rdquo; From Interior visitors
-traveled west over the Washington Highway to the railroad town of
-Scenic. In the late 1920&rsquo;s the Museum Filling Station in Scenic was
-widely known for its collection of Badlands fossils and Indian artifacts.
-They also provided guide services to visitors desiring to see Badlands
-features located off the road. Rapid City was reached by traveling northwest
-over 45 miles of good dirt road&mdash;except during rains.<a class="fn" id="fr_87" href="#fn_87">[87]</a></p>
-<p>Support for the park proposal grew in the late 1920&rsquo;s. In October
-1927 the Wonderland Hiway Association, in a letter to Senator Norbeck,
-wrote:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>At a meeting of the Wonderland Hiway Association, an orgization
-[sic] comprising the business men and local residenters [sic]
-of the Towns through the Bad Lands, It was resolved;
-<span class="pb" id="Page_31">31</span>
-That the Association would ask and petition the State Hiway
-Commission ... for a State Hiway, Starting from Kadoka, West
-over Cedar Pass to Interior, S. Dak. West through The Bad Lands
-to Scenic over Hiway #40 and from Scenic to Hermosa, S. Dak.,
-Providing a sutable [sic] location can be found.<a class="fn" id="fr_88" href="#fn_88">[88]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>The State Highway Commission gave the proposal its wholehearted
-support.<a class="fn" id="fr_89" href="#fn_89">[89]</a></p>
-<p>The National Park Service, however, continued to oppose the area as
-a national park on two grounds. For one thing much of the land was in
-private ownership. Senator Norbeck explained in a 1927 letter:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>The Park program is not as easy as it seems on account of so
-much of the land having gone into Private ownership. The
-Federal Government will not purchase land for park purposes.
-They never have. The State must and that will come slow.<a class="fn" id="fr_90" href="#fn_90">[90]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>In the second place, the National Park Service believed that the area
-was more suitable as a national monument. The Senator continued in
-the same letter:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>The Park Service is opposed to making it a National Park as they
-try to limit the Parks to the areas that are principally recreational.
-They would favor a plan to make the Bad Lands a
-&ldquo;National Monument.&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_91" href="#fn_91">[91]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>Despite the objections of the Service to the Senator&rsquo;s park proposal,
-Norbeck&rsquo;s continued desire for a national park in the Badlands was
-stated in a letter written in November 1927 to Hubert Work, Secretary
-of the Interior:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>The Congressional delegation from this state will be united in
-an effort to create a Bad Lands National Park in South Dakota.
-If this is impossible they will desire to have certain areas set
-aside as national monuments.<a class="fn" id="fr_92" href="#fn_92">[92]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>In April 1928 Norbeck wrote Representative Williamson asking him
-to help draft a bill for the park. The first part of the bill, Norbeck indicated,
-would &ldquo;include the Badlands Wall proper, from a point about 4
-miles east of Interior to a point 12 or 14 miles southwest of Wall.&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_93" href="#fn_93">[93]</a> The
-establishment of the park would be contingent on the building of a road
-by the State through the proposed area and the State acquiring 90 percent
-of the privately owned lands within it. The second part of the bill
-would authorize a national monument which would include Sheep
-Mountain and the surrounding area, some six to seven miles southwest
-of Scenic. The authorization of this area would be conditional upon the
-construction of a highway from Scenic to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
-and acquisition of the lands within the proposed monument by the
-State of South Dakota. The third portion of the bill would authorize the
-abandonment of Wind Cave National Park!<a class="fn" id="fr_94" href="#fn_94">[94]</a></p>
-<p>The bills as finally presented to Congress by Norbeck and Williamson
-were somewhat different from the one which the Senator planned.</p>
-<p>During the first session of the 70th Congress, Norbeck and Williamson
-<span class="pb" id="Page_32">32</span>
-introduced identical legislation in their respective houses on May 8, 1928,
-to set aside the Badlands as a national park. Norbeck introduced S. 4385,
-&ldquo;A Bill To establish Teton National Park in the State of South Dakota....&rdquo;
-The bill authorized the Secretary of the Interior, through negotiation,
-to exchange privately owned lands within the proposed park for
-public lands of equal value outside. The bill contained a provision
-that when 90 percent of the privately owned lands within the proposed
-area had been acquired without expense to the federal treasury and
-transferred to the government for park purposes, the park would be set
-aside for the people, &ldquo;... <b>Provided</b>, That the State of South Dakota shall
-have first constructed&rdquo; approximately 40 miles of suitable road to specified
-points inside and outside the proposed park.<a class="fn" id="fr_95" href="#fn_95">[95]</a></p>
-<div class="img" id="fig15">
-<img src="images/p13.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="417" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 15<span class="center"> SENATOR PETER NORBECK (1870-1936)</span></p>
-</div>
-<p>Norbeck&rsquo;s bill was referred to the Committee on Public Lands and
-Surveys. On May 19 the bill was reported out without amendment. The
-accompanying report (No. 1246) gave a strong endorsement to the proposal.<a class="fn" id="fr_96" href="#fn_96">[96]</a>
-On May 23, the bill was considered as in Committee of the
-Whole and passed the Senate.<a class="fn" id="fr_97" href="#fn_97">[97]</a></p>
-<p>However, in the House where Williamson had introduced an identical
-bill (H.R. 13618), the park proposal ran into trouble. In a circular
-letter dated November 7, 1928, the National Parks Association claimed
-that the proposed Teton National Park had not been examined for standards
-by the National Park Service before the Senate acted on the proposal
-and that the bill was hurried through that body. Asserting that
-the proposed area was reported below standard by the National Park
-Service, the association charged:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>Neither of these Senators [Norbeck and Nye], nor the Public
-Lands Committee which reported the bill and resolution, nor the
-Senate sessions which carelessly passed them, discussed the
-national aspects of this legislation. They did not consider the
-plan and standards of the national system which Congress had
-been building unit by unit, each painstakingly chosen, since 1872.
-They ignored the half century Congressional custom of awaiting
-the report of the Interior Department, to which Congress had entrusted
-the System&rsquo;s shaping from the beginning. They ignored
-the American people&rsquo;s enthusiastic interest in the plan and purpose
-of this unique world-famous institution, and its insistence
-in recent years upon park selection by the expert National
-Park Service....</p>
-<p>Thoughtlessness, apparently, but in practice this amounts to
-<span class="pb" id="Page_33">33</span>
-localism defying national aspirations. It seriously threatens
-national park standards.<a class="fn" id="fr_98" href="#fn_98">[98]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<div class="img" id="fig16">
-<img src="images/p13a.jpg" alt="" width="472" height="600" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 16<span class="center"> BEN MILLARD (1872-1956)</span></p>
-</div>
-<p>In a letter to Robert S. Yard, Executive Secretary of the association,
-Senator Norbeck accused the association of sending out a misleading
-report:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>You criticise me for introducing and securing action in the Senate
-on a bill fifteen days after it was introduced and especially in
-view of the fact that it had not been investigated by the National
-Park Service.</p>
-<p>You could truthfully have said that this legislation has been
-pending for a great many years&mdash;at least five years.</p>
-<p>You could also have said that I have been trying all these years
-to get the Park Service to investigate the proposed area.</p>
-<p>You could also have added that the Government land in this
-area was withdrawn by Presidential Proclamation many years
-ago in anticipation of park legislation. Why carry the idea that
-it was all a fifteen day affair when it is all of five years? It
-would be a hard rule to apply that the failure of the Park Service
-to investigate an important project should preclude a member
-of Congress from taking any action whatever....</p>
-<p>You also state that the project has been investigated by the Park
-Service and reported adversely. It is an astonishing fact that
-the knowledge of such reports should be withheld from me.
-Therefore, I doubt very much that any report has been made.
-I therefore wired the Park Service, asking who made the report
-and when. I have no response.<a class="fn" id="fr_99" href="#fn_99">[99]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>Acting Director Arthur E. Demaray of the National Park Service,
-meanwhile, wrote Norbeck advising him that the Service had never prepared
-an official report on the park proposal and that the statement by
-the association that the proposed park was &ldquo;reported below standard by
-the National Park Service&rdquo; was without authority.<a class="fn" id="fr_100" href="#fn_100">[100]</a></p>
-<p>In the House of Representatives where the proposal was considered
-in the second session, the bill (S. 4385) underwent substantial revision.
-After being considered by the Committee on the Public Lands, it was
-<span class="pb" id="Page_34">34</span>
-reported out with amendments on February 19, 1929.<a class="fn" id="fr_101" href="#fn_101">[101]</a> The revised
-bill changed the boundary of the proposed area, reducing it from 69,120
-acres to about 50,760 acres<a class="fn" id="fr_102" href="#fn_102">[102]</a> (50,830 acres according to another
-source<a class="fn" id="fr_103" href="#fn_103">[103]</a>). The name was changed from Teton National Park to Badlands
-National Monument. It modified the requirements for the road
-which the state had to construct from 40 miles to 30 miles of total length.
-The requirement that 90 percent of the privately owned lands had to be
-acquired before the park could be established was dropped. Instead,
-it was now at the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior to decide when
-enough privately owned lands within the proposed boundary had been
-purchased so that the area could be proclaimed a national monument
-by the President. As before, the bill stipulated that the lands would have
-to be acquired without cost to the federal treasury. The amended bill
-had a new provision that the Department of the Interior could grant hotel
-and lodge franchises in advance of the fulfillment of the conditions.<a class="fn" id="fr_104" href="#fn_104">[104]</a></p>
-<p>The amended bill was considered by the Committee of the Whole
-House on February 25, six days after the Committee on the Public Lands
-had acted on it. Two additional amendments were offered on the floor
-of the House and were accepted. The idea that the Secretary of the
-Interior could decide when enough privately owned land had been purchased
-so that the area could be proclaimed as a national monument
-was dropped in favor of requiring all privately owned land within the
-proposed boundary be purchased before the area could be established.
-The provision giving the Department of the Interior authority to grant
-franchises in advance of the establishment of the national monument
-was also deleted. This amended form passed the House of Representatives
-on the same day, February 25.<a class="fn" id="fr_105" href="#fn_105">[105]</a></p>
-<p>When the House act was referred to the Senate on the next day,
-Norbeck asked his colleagues not to concur with the amended proposal.
-He asked instead that the modified bill be considered in a conference
-committee of the House and Senate.<a class="fn" id="fr_106" href="#fn_106">[106]</a> On March 2, the conference
-committee recommended that the two amendments that were attached to
-the bill on the floor of the House on February 25 be dropped, returning
-the bill to the form it had when it was originally reported out on February
-19.<a class="fn" id="fr_107" href="#fn_107">[107]</a></p>
-<p>On the same day, March 2, the final bill was passed by both
-houses.<a class="fn" id="fr_108" href="#fn_108">[108]</a> Known as Public Law No. 1021, the act authorizing Badlands
-National Monument was approved by President Calvin Coolidge on
-March 4, 1929. The signing of the act took place on the last day of
-Coolidge&rsquo;s term as President of the United States.<a class="fn" id="fr_109" href="#fn_109">[109]</a></p>
-<p>The area authorized under this act (45 Stat. 1553) included 50,830.40
-acres; of this amount, 39,893.85 acres were in the public domain. The
-remainder was state land or privately owned land.<a class="fn" id="fr_110" href="#fn_110">[110]</a></p>
-<p>It is interesting to note that Senator Norbeck introduced a new bill
-(S. 5779) to establish Badlands National Monument on February 11, 1929.
-It was identical with the House amendments proposed for S. 4385 which
-were later reported out by the Committee on the Public Lands on February 19.
-<span class="pb" id="Page_35">35</span>
-The new bill, after being referred to the Committee on Public
-Lands and Surveys, was returned on February 20 with Senate Report
-1842.<a class="fn" id="fr_111" href="#fn_111">[111]</a> Meanwhile, Williamson introduced H. 17102 in the House,
-which was identical to S. 5779; it was referred to the Committee on the
-Public Lands.<a class="fn" id="fr_112" href="#fn_112">[112]</a> Both of these bills died without further consideration.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_36">36</div>
-<div class="img" id="fig17">
-<img src="images/p14.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="497" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 17<span class="center"> THE PINNACLES CONCESSION</span></p>
-<p class="pcapc">Operating since about 1935, this development was run on a seasonal basis. It offered
-summer visitors a few accommodations, souvenirs, refreshments, and gasoline until
-abandoned in 1950. The buildings were removed shortly afterward.<a class="fn" id="fr_118" href="#fn_118">[118]</a></p>
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_37">37</div>
-<h2 id="c6"><span class="small">THE DEPRESSION YEARS</span></h2>
-<p>Among local persons who worked hard toward the establishment of
-Badlands National Monument after it was authorized in 1929 were Ben
-H. Millard, the original owner of Cedar Pass Lodge; A.G. Granger of
-Kadoka; Leonel Jensen, local rancher; Ted E. Hustead, owner and operator
-of the well-known Wall Drug Store; and Dr. G.W. Mills of Wall.<a class="fn" id="fr_113" href="#fn_113">[113]</a></p>
-<p>Of these individuals, Mr. Millard made the greatest contribution to
-the establishment and development of the national monument. Born September
-15, 1872, in Minnesota, he moved to South Dakota in 1893 with
-his parents. Millard entered the banking business in Sanborn County
-in 1899. In 1917 he sold his banking interests and entered the State of
-South Dakota Banking Department. On an assignment to Philip, South
-Dakota, Millard first saw the Badlands and became interested in them.
-He left the Banking Department and moved into the Badlands in 1927,
-homesteading below Cedar Pass on the present site of Cedar Pass Lodge,
-which he later built and operated.<a class="fn" id="fr_114" href="#fn_114">[114]</a></p>
-<p>Millard worked closely with Senator Norbeck on development plans
-for the proposed Badlands National Monument. From September 1934
-through July 1936, he was employed as a local Resettlement Administration
-project manager. In this capacity he was responsible for federal
-acquisition of private lands, most of which later became part of the national
-monument after it was established in 1939. The alignment of the
-first Badlands road, alternate U.S. 16, was largely a result of his ideas.
-In 1931 he selected what he believed to be the most scenic route, and
-staked it out with the aid of his employee, E.N. &ldquo;Curley&rdquo; Nelson (who returned
-to the Badlands in 1964 to become the first concessioner of Cedar
-Pass Lodge). Millard and his sister, Mrs. Clara Jennings, and later his
-son, Herbert, operated the Pinnacles concession from about 1935 to
-1950.<a class="fn" id="fr_115" href="#fn_115">[115]</a> Three important parcels of land were donated by Millard to the
-NPS in 1941, 1946, and 1955 for inclusion in Badlands National Monument.<a class="fn" id="fr_116" href="#fn_116">[116]</a>
-Millard died at Cedar Pass Lodge in March 1956.</p>
-<p>In special ceremonies on June 28, 1957, Millard Ridge, a prominent
-portion of the Badlands wall six-tenths of a mile long just east of Cedar
-Pass, was named and dedicated to his memory.<a class="fn" id="fr_117" href="#fn_117">[117]</a></p>
-<p>In 1929 western South Dakota, in common with most of the farm belt,
-had been suffering almost a decade from the deflation which followed
-World War I. Both farmers and ranchers had been unable to fulfill
-obligations assumed during an earlier period of high prices. Many of
-the banks of the state were forced to close.<a class="fn" id="fr_119" href="#fn_119">[119]</a></p>
-<p>With the beginning of the Great Depression in the fall of 1929, conditions
-became increasingly worse. A combination of disasters which
-included grasshopper infestations, crop failures, and drought struck the
-country. The south central and western counties of the state were most
-severely affected by these disasters.<a class="fn" id="fr_120" href="#fn_120">[120]</a></p>
-<p>Several government programs on both the federal and state levels
-were authorized to assist those in need. The NPS made use of a number
-of these programs in various ways during the 1930&rsquo;s.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_38">38</div>
-<p>In November 1934, NPS Director Arno B. Cammerer recommended to
-Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes that additional area be approved
-for inclusion in the proposed Badlands National Monument. He contended
-that the proposed additions, which included a portion of Sheep Mountain,
-were as outstanding as the area originally authorized by Congress
-in 1929. Wildlife problems and administrative difficulties of the originally
-proposed area would be lessened by the change in boundary.<a class="fn" id="fr_121" href="#fn_121">[121]</a></p>
-<p>In order to implement the proposed boundary change Mr. Cammerer
-recommended (1) that the President should be asked to issue an Executive
-Order withdrawing all public lands involved; (2) that all privately owned
-lands be acquired through an existing federal government relief program;
-and (3) that the next session of Congress be asked to establish the Badlands
-National Monument with the boundaries now recommended.<a class="fn" id="fr_122" href="#fn_122">[122]</a></p>
-<p>The Secretary of the Interior approved the proposal for the boundary
-extension and in the same month President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered
-that all unreserved and unappropriated public lands in Pennington,
-Jackson, Fall River, and Custer Counties be</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>temporarily withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, or entry,
-for classification and use as a grazing project pursuant to the
-submarginal land program of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration.<a class="fn" id="fr_123" href="#fn_123">[123]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>By January 1, 1935, the NPS had already obtained options for 23,000
-acres from private land owners living within the proposed boundary
-extension area. This work was being done under the auspices of the
-Land Program section of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration
-(FERA) which had been authorized by Congress in 1933.<a class="fn" id="fr_124" href="#fn_124">[124]</a></p>
-<p>Early in April 1935, the NPS completed the &ldquo;Final Report on the Badlands
-National Monument Extension Project, South Dakota R-1.&rdquo; The
-report included both the area previously authorized under Public Law 1021
-and the proposed extension. The area, to be known as the Badlands
-Recreational Demonstration Project, would include 119,557.88 acres, of
-which 72,316.22 were privately owned. The proposed boundary extension
-received the support of Governor Tom Berry, Senator Norbeck,
-President C.C. O&rsquo;Harra of the South Dakota School of Mines, and a
-number of prominent geologists, naturalists, educators, and others.<a class="fn" id="fr_125" href="#fn_125">[125]</a></p>
-<p>In a letter to Harry L. Hopkins, FERA Administrator, on April 15, 1935,
-Acting Secretary of the Interior T.A. Walters wrote:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>I hereby recommend for purchase certain lands for a project
-known as the Badlands National Monument Extension in Jackson,
-Pennington, Washington and Washabaugh Counties, South
-Dakota, proposed by the National Park Service of this Department
-for the conservation and development of the natural resources
-of the United States, within the meaning of Section 202
-of Title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act, pursuant to
-which funds have been allotted and transferred to the Land Program,
-Federal Emergency Relief Administration.<a class="fn" id="fr_126" href="#fn_126">[126]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>Secretary Walters further stated that this project came within the
-<span class="pb" id="Page_39">39</span>
-classification of lands as stated in a memorandum to him dated July
-16, 1934. In it the Director of the Land Program said:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p><span class="u">Demonstration Recreational Projects:</span> These include projects in
-which the land to be purchased is to be used primarily for recreational
-purposes, as submitted by the National Park Service,
-Department of the Interior.<a class="fn" id="fr_127" href="#fn_127">[127]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>The Secretary of the Interior recommended that the Badlands National
-Monument Extension be accepted as a Demonstration Recreational
-Project of the Land Program, FERA. The project was approved and
-adopted by the Land Program. The NPS expected that the cost of all
-the lands considered would not average more than $2.66 per acre.<a class="fn" id="fr_128" href="#fn_128">[128]</a></p>
-<p>Meanwhile, President Roosevelt, by a series of executive orders,
-created the Resettlement Administration, an independent agency, and
-transferred to it the land and related activities of the FERA. The Resettlement
-Administration operated until the end of 1936 when its powers,
-functions, and duties were transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture.
-Later, the name &ldquo;Resettlement Administration&rdquo; was changed to the Farm
-Security Administration.<a class="fn" id="fr_129" href="#fn_129">[129]</a></p>
-<p>The work of appraising, securing options on, and purchasing private
-lands, begun under the submarginal land program of the FERA, continued
-under the Resettlement Administration.</p>
-<p>In a 1935 letter to Assistant NPS Director Conrad L. Wirth, Senator
-Norbeck pointed out some of the problems and drawbacks of the land
-acquisition program by writing:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>The land varies a great deal in quality, and the poor lands are
-being obtained for the scheduled price, but the good lands are
-not.</p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>He went on to say that</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>A very large percentage of this land, maybe thirty to fifty per
-cent, is on the tax delinquency list, with about four years of
-taxes. The price offered is less than the taxes held against the
-land, and the owner is not anxious to sell if he cannot get a
-nickel out of it....</p>
-<p>Considerable of these lands, however, have already been abandoned
-by the owner on account of the amount of taxes due.<a class="fn" id="fr_130" href="#fn_130">[130]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>Counties were reluctant to sell land to the federal government because
-this would mean withdrawal from the tax lists, thus reducing the
-counties&rsquo; incomes. Norbeck recommended that the federal government
-pay more for the land by a &ldquo;boost of one dollar an acre....&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_131" href="#fn_131">[131]</a> Meetings
-were being held in various parts of the region to protest the low
-prices being offered.<a class="fn" id="fr_132" href="#fn_132">[132]</a></p>
-<p>The desperate situation of the times was expressed well in a letter
-dated September 2, 1935, from a local rancher&rsquo;s wife who wrote:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>After 6 years [of] crop failures on the so called submarginal land
-of Western South Dakota we are facing financial disaster unless
-we sell our land to the government.<a class="fn" id="fr_133" href="#fn_133">[133]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_40">40</div>
-<div class="img" id="fig18">
-<img src="images/p15.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="477" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 18<span class="center"> CEDAR PASS WINTER WONDERLAND</span></p>
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_41">41</div>
-<p>During the same month, the average price being offered per acre
-was $2.85.<a class="fn" id="fr_134" href="#fn_134">[134]</a></p>
-<p>To gain Congressional approval for the boundary extension of the
-proposed Badlands National Monument, the proponents secured the attachment
-of a rider to the Taylor Grazing Bill revision authorizing the
-enlargement. The grazing bill was vetoed in 1935 although there was
-no opposition to the rider.<a class="fn" id="fr_135" href="#fn_135">[135]</a></p>
-<p>The bill was reintroduced the following year and was passed. Approved
-June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1979), the law authorized the President to
-round out the authorized national monument boundary by proclamation
-within five years and stipulated that the entire area could not exceed
-250,000 acres. Lands to be included must be &ldquo;adjacent or contiguous
-thereto, ... including, but not being restricted to, lands designated as submarginal
-by the Resettlement Administration....&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_136" href="#fn_136">[136]</a> This law gave
-the NPS sufficient flexibility in fixing a suitable boundary.</p>
-<p>Norbeck worked tirelessly in promoting every aspect of the area&rsquo;s
-development until his death in December 1936. He actively participated
-in securing aid from various governmental relief agencies for the land
-acquisition program of the area, and for building roads, erecting buildings,
-and other purposes.<a class="fn" id="fr_137" href="#fn_137">[137]</a></p>
-<p>As early as February 1935 Governor Tom Berry of South Dakota
-urged Secretary Ickes to establish the national monument formally
-through a presidential proclamation. He pointed out that the basic
-conditions of Public Law 1021 had been met: (1) a 30-mile highway,
-built at a cost of approximately $320,000, starting at Interior and going
-over Big Foot Pass and on to Sage Creek, was completed in 1935 by
-the state and approved by the NPS; (2) the state had acquired such
-privately owned lands within the area as were required by the Secretary
-of the Interior.<a class="fn" id="fr_138" href="#fn_138">[138]</a></p>
-<p>However, NPS Director Cammerer deferred making such a recommendation
-until some 9,780 acres of state lands, located within the authorized
-national monument boundary, had been transferred to the Service.<a class="fn" id="fr_139" href="#fn_139">[139]</a></p>
-<p>Also, it was not until three years later, in 1938, that the United States
-formally accepted title to 1,395.79 acres of land donated by the trustees
-of the Custer State Park board who acted as purchasing agents for the
-State of South Dakota. Senator Norbeck had been a member of this
-board. The land was purchased from private owners with funds authorized
-by the state legislature for the expressed purpose of fulfilling partial
-requirements of Public Law 1021. Cost to the state was approximately
-$12,000 for 1,280 acres of this donated land.<a class="fn" id="fr_141" href="#fn_141">[141]</a></p>
-<p>By early July 1938 Director Cammerer considered that South Dakota
-had met all the conditions of Public Law 1021. Under this act the federal
-government had acquired title to about 48,000 acres of the 50,830 authorized.
-Within the extension authorized by the act of June 26, 1936, the
-NPS included an additional 97,976 acres. In all, the boundary recommended
-by the Service included some 148,806 acres (later revised to
-150,103.41, and still later revised again to 154,119.46 acres for the same
-amount of land<a class="fn" id="fr_142" href="#fn_142">[142]</a>) of which the government owned 113,578.59 acres.
-<span class="pb" id="Page_42">42</span>
-Director Cammerer therefore asked the Secretary of the Interior to approve
-the establishment of the national monument and that a proclamation
-be submitted to the President for final approval.<a class="fn" id="fr_143" href="#fn_143">[143]</a> On January 25,
-1939, President Roosevelt formally proclaimed the establishment of Badlands
-National Monument.<a class="fn" id="fr_144" href="#fn_144">[144]</a> It became the 77th national monument and
-the 151st area in the federal park system which is administered by the
-National Park Service.<a class="fn" id="fr_145" href="#fn_145">[145]</a></p>
-<div class="img" id="fig19">
-<img src="images/p16.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="543" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 19<span class="center"> UPPER (PINNACLES) TUNNEL, 1938</span></p>
-<p class="pcapc">This 175-foot by 16-foot tunnel was located in the national monument about two miles
-southeast of the present Pinnacles Ranger Station. It and Lower (Norbeck) Tunnel,
-situated about three miles west of Cedar Pass Lodge near the base of Norbeck Pass,
-were in use only about four years before being obliterated.<a class="fn" id="fr_140" href="#fn_140">[140]</a></p>
-</div>
-<p>The complicated land-ownership pattern in the national monument
-along with grazing would plague the NPS for years. When the area
-was proclaimed in 1939, the NPS administered substantial tracts of land
-outside the national monument&rsquo;s boundary. These tracts were located
-in the land utilization projects of the Department of Agriculture&rsquo;s Soil
-Conservation Service. On the other hand, the SCS had land utilization
-tracts under its jurisdiction within the boundary.<a class="fn" id="fr_146" href="#fn_146">[146]</a></p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_43">43</div>
-<h2 id="c7"><span class="small">EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATIONAL MONUMENT</span></h2>
-<p>Under the general direction of the NPS, various relief agencies such
-as the Emergency Relief Administration (ERA), the Resettlement Administration,
-the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and the Civilian Conservation
-Corps (CCC) worked on development projects in the area.
-Only a few scattered reports are now available on the work of these
-agencies. About 150 persons were employed at the area in January 1937
-on such projects as resurfacing, backsloping, ditching, and grading
-roads.<a class="fn" id="fr_147" href="#fn_147">[147]</a> This included major reconstruction of the Sheep Mountain
-Canyon road, completed the same year.<a class="fn" id="fr_148" href="#fn_148">[148]</a></p>
-<p>One project of interest completed June 30, 1940 by ERA labor, under
-the Public Roads Administration, was the obliteration of two tunnels
-along the Pinnacles-Cedar Pass road. They were constructed during
-the first half of the 1930&rsquo;s (see <a href="#fig19">Figure 19</a>) when the road was built by the
-State of South Dakota; the road was completed in 1935. The tunnels
-proved to be impractical because of inadequate width and maintenance
-problems.<a class="fn" id="fr_149" href="#fn_149">[149]</a></p>
-<p>In July 1940 the ERA project in the area was discontinued. Among
-the types of work accomplished since July 1, 1938, when the project was
-initiated, were the construction of five project headquarters buildings,
-prospecting for water on the national monument, the development of a
-well near the site of the old Pinnacles Checking Station, and ten road
-jobs which included road construction, widening, graveling, building culverts,
-and banksloping. The construction of parking overlooks, and the
-obliteration of buildings and clearing of 16 farmstead tracts, also took
-place during that time.<a class="fn" id="fr_150" href="#fn_150">[150]</a></p>
-<p>During the 12 months between July 1939 and July 1940, the ERA project
-employed an average of 150 relief workers.<a class="fn" id="fr_151" href="#fn_151">[151]</a></p>
-<p>Since the national monument is located a relatively short distance
-from Wind Cave National Park, the older area co-ordinated the business
-of Badlands during its early years. On August 11, 1939, Chief Ranger
-Howard B. Stricklin of Wind Cave became acting custodian of the newly
-designated area and was later placed in charge of the local ERA and
-CCC projects.<a class="fn" id="fr_152" href="#fn_152">[152]</a> Although the ERA project was terminated in July 1940,
-the CCC work continued until June 1942.<a class="fn" id="fr_153" href="#fn_153">[153]</a></p>
-<p>When Stricklin arrived to take charge, there were no living quarters
-of any kind in the area. He lived at the CCC camp at Quinn Table while
-his family remained at Wind Cave. Temporary offices were established
-in Wall pending a decision regarding the location of permanent headquarters.<a class="fn" id="fr_154" href="#fn_154">[154]</a></p>
-<p>Considerable thought was given to the selection of a headquarters
-site. For a time the Pinnacles area was considered.<a class="fn" id="fr_155" href="#fn_155">[155]</a> However, in late
-1939 it was finally decided to locate the center of operations at Cedar
-Pass.<a class="fn" id="fr_156" href="#fn_156">[156]</a> This decision was due, in part, to the offer by Mr. Ben H. Millard,
-owner of Cedar Pass Lodge,</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>to donate approximately 28 acres of strategically located land
-in the Cedar Pass area to the Service to be used as a headquarters
-area.<a class="fn" id="fr_157" href="#fn_157">[157]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_44">44</div>
-<div class="img" id="fig20">
-<img src="images/p17.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="442" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 20<span class="center"> CEDAR PASS LODGE, early 1930&rsquo;s</span></p>
-<p class="pcapc">The lodge was begun in 1928 at about the same time the large dance pavillion building
-in the background was constructed. People from as distant as Rapid City came here
-to dance to the music of Lawrence Welk and other name bands. More cabins for the
-lodge were built from its lumber when the pavillion was removed in about 1934.<a class="fn" id="fr_159" href="#fn_159">[159]</a></p>
-</div>
-<p>The Department of the Interior accepted Millard&rsquo;s donation in May
-1941.<a class="fn" id="fr_158" href="#fn_158">[158]</a></p>
-<p>The decision to develop the Cedar Pass area for headquarters greatly
-altered development plans. The CCC enrollees numbering 207 in
-February 1940 were encamped at Quinn Table some 35 miles west of
-Cedar Pass. Since much of the development was taking place at Cedar
-Pass, it was necessary to drive them between these two points each
-day.<a class="fn" id="fr_160" href="#fn_160">[160]</a></p>
-<p>One of the great handicaps of Cedar Pass as a headquarters area
-was the lack of water. To develop a satisfactory supply, the NPS found
-it necessary to go to the White River, three miles south. One of the major
-projects undertaken soon after selecting the headquarters site was to
-dig a trench and lay pipe to the river. Since this stream is intermittent
-above ground, but has a dependable subsurface flow, water was collected
-in perforated pipes laid on hard clay and shale about eight feet
-below the river bed. The pipe brought water to a sump on the river
-bank where it was pumped to a 100,000-gallon storage tank above the
-headquarters area.<a class="fn" id="fr_161" href="#fn_161">[161]</a> Work was begun on this reservoir in April 1940
-and completed by the CCC in September 1941. At the same time the
-CCC also erected a checking station at Pinnacles which Stricklin and
-his family occupied from November 15, 1940, until about May 15, 1943.<a class="fn" id="fr_162" href="#fn_162">[162]</a></p>
-<p>Handicapped by the location of the original CCC camp at Quinn
-Table, a new camp was authorized at Cedar Pass and work on it began
-in June 1941. Five months later the new camp was occupied.<a class="fn" id="fr_164" href="#fn_164">[164]</a></p>
-<p>At that time the only visitor-contact point in the Cedar Pass area was
-at Cedar Pass Lodge. During the summer season Mr. Millard lectured
-<span class="pb" id="Page_45">45</span>
-nightly to lodge guests on the geologic history of the Badlands, thereby
-initiating interpretive programs. He also showed movies of the Badlands
-and other scenic areas. A temporary park ranger, who checked travel in
-the Cedar Pass area during the day, took part in the evening programs.<a class="fn" id="fr_165" href="#fn_165">[165]</a></p>
-<div class="img" id="fig21">
-<img src="images/p17a.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="473" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 21<span class="center"> PINNACLES RANGER STATION AND CHECKING STATION, 1941</span></p>
-<p class="pcapc">Completed in 1941, the ranger station also served as quarters until January 1965 when
-the new Pinnacles ranger station-residence was completed. The checking station was
-removed about 1958 to make way for road improvement, and the old ranger station was
-razed in April 1967.<a class="fn" id="fr_163" href="#fn_163">[163]</a></p>
-</div>
-<p>The problem of stock grazing in the national monument grew increasingly
-worse during the 1940&rsquo;s. The acting custodian complained early
-in 1940:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>Until the boundary is fenced and we are in a better position to
-know what is private and what is monument land, there appears
-to be very little that can be done to prevent this.<a class="fn" id="fr_166" href="#fn_166">[166]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>In December 1941 he wrote in a similar vein:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>During past winters it has been the practice of local stockmen
-to allow herds of horses and cattle to drift into the monument
-area to graze unrestrictedly over public as well as private lands
-and along the monument highways. There is such a large
-amount of private and county-owned land within the monument
-boundaries (31,000 acres out of a total of 150,000) that it is difficult
-to restrain stock from grazing on National Park Service land as
-well as on the land that is owned or leased by private individuals.<a class="fn" id="fr_167" href="#fn_167">[167]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>It soon became obvious that Badlands National Monument would be
-a popular attraction because of its location near U.S. Highways 14 and
-16, both well-known national highways going through the Black Hills.
-In 1941 there were 70.02 miles of road in the national monument. Of this,
-<span class="pb" id="Page_46">46</span>
-61.52 miles were constructed by the state and 8.5 miles by the federal
-government; 29.87 miles were graveled and 40.15 were dirt roads.<a class="fn" id="fr_168" href="#fn_168">[168]</a></p>
-<p>Although the roads through the area were only partially developed,
-thousands of travelers turned off the through highways to view the scenic
-Badlands.</p>
-<p>Stricklin reported in September 1941:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>More than a quarter of a million visitors had passed through Badlands
-National Monument by the close of the travel season on
-September 30, representing an increase of approximately 30 percent
-over the previous year, for the period during which an
-actual count was made.<a class="fn" id="fr_169" href="#fn_169">[169]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>The entrance of the United States into World War II in December
-1941 had a great impact on the area and its operations. Since many of
-the CCC enrollees would be absorbed into the armed forces, the project
-work soon came to an end. The acting custodian reported in the spring
-of 1942, &ldquo;On March 25, after two years and five months of productive
-work in Badlands National Monument, CCC Camp Badlands, NP-3
-[located at Cedar Pass], was abandoned.&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_170" href="#fn_170">[170]</a> Work was continued on
-several projects undertaken at Camp Badlands by a CCC side camp
-with the view toward completing the projects or leaving them &ldquo;in such
-condition that the facilities involved may be used, and the materials, all
-of which have been on hand for some time, may be protected against
-deterioration and loss.&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_171" href="#fn_171">[171]</a> However, the side camp was also closed in
-the following June, leaving practically all of the construction projects in
-various states of completion.<a class="fn" id="fr_172" href="#fn_172">[172]</a> In December 1942 most of the CCC buildings
-at Cedar Pass were dismantled and removed by the armed services.<a class="fn" id="fr_173" href="#fn_173">[173]</a></p>
-<p>Another result of the nation&rsquo;s entrance into the war was a sharp drop
-in visitors to the Badlands. Stricklin wrote in June 1942 that &ldquo;Most of
-these visitors appeared to be genuine vacationists ... [who] had a
-vacation coming, and were trying to get it in before gas rationing became
-nation-wide.&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_174" href="#fn_174">[174]</a> He estimated that travel in March 1943 was 87 percent
-under that for March 1942, and that &ldquo;All foreign [out-of-state] visitor cars
-stopping for information were headed for defense jobs, or were military
-personnel, changing their headquarters from one part of the country to
-another.&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_175" href="#fn_175">[175]</a> The effect of the war on travel to the national monument
-is reflected in the travel figures of the area for the years from 1941 to
-1945. (See <a href="#c9">Appendix A</a>.)</p>
-<p>Efforts at the national monument during the war were devoted largely
-to preventive maintenance. Changing his headquarters from Pinnacles
-to Cedar Pass in June 1943, Stricklin was able to give closer attention
-to the headquarters area.<a class="fn" id="fr_176" href="#fn_176">[176]</a> Such routine tasks as filling washouts,
-cleaning ditches, reclaiming gravel, cutting roadside weeds, repairing
-guard rails, cleaning up debris, and temporary patching of roads occupied
-most of the staff&rsquo;s time. Other tasks, such as repairing water lines,
-painting signs, keeping the buildings in repair, and servicing and repairing
-the area equipment also required much attention.<a class="fn" id="fr_177" href="#fn_177">[177]</a> The cottage
-that the custodian and his family rented from Millard at Cedar Pass was
-destroyed by fire on November 27, 1943.<a class="fn" id="fr_178" href="#fn_178">[178]</a></p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_47">47</div>
-<div class="img" id="fig22">
-<img src="images/p18.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="562" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 22<span class="center"> CEDAR PASS, June 1950</span></p>
-<p class="pcapc">The buildings of Cedar Pass Lodge can be seen behind the white frame structure, which
-served as a visitor center and headquarters until 1959. Remnants of two spires on
-Vampire Peak remain on the left. It was observed on November 22, 1950, that one of the
-two spires of this famous landmark had fallen, apparently during a thunder storm.<a class="fn" id="fr_189" href="#fn_189">[189]</a></p>
-</div>
-<p>During the ten years following the end of World War II, there was
-slow progress in the area&rsquo;s development. Work on the custodian&rsquo;s residence
-at Cedar Pass, begun in 1941, was completed in 1946.<a class="fn" id="fr_179" href="#fn_179">[179]</a> Early
-in 1953 two additional houses, both prefabricated, were completed.<a class="fn" id="fr_180" href="#fn_180">[180]</a>
-In January 1948 commercial power was brought to Cedar Pass and Interior
-with the completion of a single-phase power line by the Rural
-Electrification Administration.<a class="fn" id="fr_181" href="#fn_181">[181]</a> The Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
-extended telephone service to the national monument headquarters
-in September 1952.<a class="fn" id="fr_182" href="#fn_182">[182]</a> (This service was officially taken over by the
-Golden West Telephone Cooperative, Inc., in October 1960.)<a class="fn" id="fr_183" href="#fn_183">[183]</a></p>
-<p>During the travel seasons of 1946 and 1947 there was much adverse
-criticism of the national monument roads. The maintenance equipment
-was in poor condition and usually undergoing repairs when most
-needed.<a class="fn" id="fr_184" href="#fn_184">[184]</a> In the summer of 1948 about 4 miles of road was black-topped
-between the Cedar Pass junction and Norbeck Pass; this represented
-the first paving of U.S. Route 16A in the national monument.<a class="fn" id="fr_185" href="#fn_185">[185]</a>
-The present northeast entrance road, about 3&frac12; miles long, was completed
-in October 1951. It opened up a new area of the Badlands known
-as the Window Section.<a class="fn" id="fr_186" href="#fn_186">[186]</a> This road was made possible by the donation
-in 1946 of a 160-acre, strategically located land parcel by Mr. Ben Millard
-who had purchased it from Jackson County in March 1941 for this purpose.<a class="fn" id="fr_187" href="#fn_187">[187]</a></p>
-<p>During the late 1940&rsquo;s and early 1950&rsquo;s buildings constructed as temporary
-<span class="pb" id="Page_48">48</span>
-structures in the ERA and CCC period were remodeled and continued
-in use for headquarters and utility purposes.<a class="fn" id="fr_188" href="#fn_188">[188]</a></p>
-<p>Both the grazing and the land ownership problems at the national
-monument were compounded by the war. With increased rainfall in
-the region during the decade of the 1940&rsquo;s and the rising price of beef,
-the situation of the ranchers greatly improved. Under a plan suggested
-by Congressman Case in January 1943 to help in the &ldquo;Beef for Victory
-Program,&rdquo; the Service authorized for the first time in April the issuance
-of grazing permits on federally owned grasslands within the national
-monument. Under this program, the lands were divided into seven grazing
-units. An orderly grazing plan was established with the cooperation
-of the Soil Conservation Service.<a class="fn" id="fr_190" href="#fn_190">[190]</a> Stricklin was able to identify and
-locate all cattle and sheep outfits that claimed to be using the national
-monument lands in conjunction with their SCS allotments.<a class="fn" id="fr_191" href="#fn_191">[191]</a> Following
-the war authorized grazing remained one of the area&rsquo;s major management
-problems for over a decade.</p>
-<p>Stricklin wrote about an interesting sidelight of the grazing problem:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>The roundup and disposal of several hundred head of unclaimed
-and so-called wild horses in the Sage Creek basin was a source
-of much concern on the part of both ranchers and the Custodian,
-the ranchers claiming the wild stallions were enticing away
-their mares. The Custodian&rsquo;s concern was partly because of the
-damage these herds were doing to the range, but largely because
-it was practically the only program of any kind on which
-the National Park Service and the ranchers could even remotely
-agree. Several roundups were collaborated in, during which the
-herds were drastically reduced. Airplanes were used on at
-least one of the roundups to flush horses out of the canyons and
-keep them from breaking back on their route to Scenic and the
-loading chutes. Jack and Mamie Close, ranchers on Quinn
-Table, were the leaders among the ranchers in this work.<a class="fn" id="fr_192" href="#fn_192">[192]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>Feral horses were eventually eliminated through roundups and returned
-to their owners. The last roundup took place in the national
-monument in 1963.<a class="fn" id="fr_193" href="#fn_193">[193]</a></p>
-<p>With the improvement of their lot, many ranchers who had been
-destitute only a few years earlier were in a position to purchase county
-lands within the national monument boundary. The custodian reported
-in April 1943 that practically all such land within the boundary was leased
-for grazing and that much of it was recently bought by sheep and
-cattle ranchers.<a class="fn" id="fr_194" href="#fn_194">[194]</a> In 1946 Stricklin reported a considerable change in
-land ownership where much of the land formerly controlled by Pennington
-County had passed into private ownership.<a class="fn" id="fr_195" href="#fn_195">[195]</a> Later the same year
-Jackson County auctioned all of its 3,000 acres of land within the boundary
-to private individuals. Practically all of the 14,000 acres which was
-owned by the two counties two years earlier had passed into private
-ownership.<a class="fn" id="fr_196" href="#fn_196">[196]</a></p>
-<p>The location of the boundary had been a subject of discussion since
-the national monument was established in 1939. The area contained a
-<span class="pb" id="Page_49">49</span>
-large acreage of grassland which the Soil Conservation Service believed
-should be released for grazing purposes. There was also overlapping
-jurisdiction between the two federal agencies.<a class="fn" id="fr_197" href="#fn_197">[197]</a></p>
-<p>After several years of study, the NPS and the SCS arrived at an
-understanding on the national monument boundary and mutual land
-problems. In 1946 the two agencies signed an agreement known as
-<b>Recommended Program of Procedure</b> for boundary adjustment of Badlands
-National Monument. The NPS agreed:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p class="revint">(1) to transfer to the Soil Conservation Service NPS lands outside
-the existing national monument boundary in order to compensate
-for 1,220 acres the SCS had turned over for inclusion
-in the national monument prior to its establishment in 1939;</p>
-<p class="revint">(2) to transfer to the SCS equivalent lands (computed on a livestock-carrying-capacity
-basis) for lands that were to be acquired
-from the SCS by the NPS as the result of revised boundary
-studies;</p>
-<p class="revint">(3) to transfer to the SCS federal lands which the NPS planned
-to eliminate from the national monument to use in exchange
-for non-federal lands remaining in the national monument
-after the boundary changes were made.<a class="fn" id="fr_198" href="#fn_198">[198]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>The plan made it possible to transfer, without legislation, 3,678.19
-acres of NPS lands lying outside the park boundary to the SCS. This
-was done by order of the Secretary of the Interior in July 1949.<a class="fn" id="fr_199" href="#fn_199">[199]</a> These
-lands were acquired under the Resettlement Administration program
-and, in 1936 were transferred to the NPS. When Badlands National
-Monument was established in 1939, these lands were not within the
-boundary.<a class="fn" id="fr_200" href="#fn_200">[200]</a></p>
-<p>In order to carry out the main objectives of the plan, Congressional
-action was necessary. In 1950 bills (H.R. 7342 and S. 3081) were introduced
-in the 81st Congress by Representative Case and Senator Chandler
-Gurney to implement the proposed land exchange. H.R. 7342 was passed
-by the House without amendment, but later the bill died in the Senate.
-The senate bill (S. 3081) was not considered.</p>
-<p>In 1951 Senator Francis H. Case, who had just been elected to that
-office, and Congressman E.Y. Berry introduced identical bills (S. 896 and
-HR. 3540) in the 82nd Congress. These were similar to the ones proposed
-a year earlier. Berry&rsquo;s bill passed the House on July 2, 1951, without
-amendment. The House Act was referred to the Senate Committee
-on Interior and Insular Affairs, which recommended that section five of
-H.R. 3540 be dropped. This section would have provided authority to
-include 4,000 acres of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the Sheep
-Mountain area provided certain conditions were met. The committee
-believed &ldquo;that a satisfactory solution should be worked out with the
-Tribal Council of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of Indians, and any others
-interested, before legislation with regard to these lands is enacted.&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_201" href="#fn_201">[201]</a>
-The bill in its amended form, including another minor change recommended
-by the committee, passed the Senate on January 24, 1952.<a class="fn" id="fr_202" href="#fn_202">[202]</a></p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_50">50</div>
-<div class="img" id="fig23">
-<img src="images/p19.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="456" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 23<span class="center"> AREA CHANGES IN BADLANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT<a class="fn" id="fr_203" href="#fn_203">[203]</a></span></p>
-</div>
-<table class="center" summary="">
-<tr><td class="l">Area authorized in 1929 (dashed line) </td><td class="r">50,830.40 acres</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">Area upon establishment in 1939 </td><td class="r">154,119.46 acres</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">Area after changes of 1952 </td><td class="r">122,642.52 acres</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">Area after changes of 1957 (heavy line) </td><td class="r">111,529.82 acres</td></tr>
-</table>
-<p>Acreage figures are latest available and may be different from figures
-which were current during each of the four times the park boundary
-has been redesignated. Because of these acreage revisions, additions
-to and deletions from the park do not total correctly.</p>
-<table class="center" summary="">
-<tr class="th"><th colspan="2">Badlands National Monument</th></tr>
-<tr class="th"><th colspan="2">South Dakota</th></tr>
-<tr><td colspan="2" class="l">One section (1 mile square&mdash;640 acres)</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">Eliminated in 1952 </td><td class="r">31,442.52 acres</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">Added in 1952 </td><td class="r">4,449.29 acres</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">Eliminated in 1957 </td><td class="r">11,234.09 acres</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">Added in 1957 </td><td class="r">241.39 acres</td></tr>
-</table>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_51">51</div>
-<p>Shortly afterwards on February 8, telegrams were sent to Congressmen
-Berry, Senator Case, and Senator Karl Mundt by the executive committee
-of the tribal council of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. The messages
-urged the congressmen to do their best to get Section 5 restored so it
-would be possible for the tribe to negotiate with the federal government
-for exchange of the land in the Sheep Mountain area for other lands.<a class="fn" id="fr_204" href="#fn_204">[204]</a>
-The House, however, did not heed this resolution but voted instead to
-concur with the Senate&rsquo;s amended version. The bill became Public Law
-328 after being signed by President Harry S Truman on May 7, 1952.<a class="fn" id="fr_205" href="#fn_205">[205]</a></p>
-<p>Under this law, the Secretary of the Interior was authorized to adjust
-and redefine at his discretion the exterior boundary of the national monument
-by appropriate reductions or additions. The law specified, among
-other things, that the adjusted area could not exceed the existing 154,119
-acres.<a class="fn" id="fr_206" href="#fn_206">[206]</a> (An official figure of 150,103.41 acres was used as the total
-acreage of the area at the time it was proclaimed as a national monument
-in 1939. A revised figure, listing 154,119.46 acres for the same area,
-was used as the total acreage from about 1943 until October 1952.<a class="fn" id="fr_207" href="#fn_207">[207]</a>)</p>
-<p>Immediately after the bill became law, proposed boundary changes
-received considerable attention. Some believed that the area of the
-national monument should be reduced. A strong supporter of this view
-was the South Dakota Stock Growers Association. It was the organization&rsquo;s
-belief that the size could be reduced by about one-half without
-destroying any of its scenic value. They estimated that 3,000 head of
-cattle would be without grass if the NPS carried through its plan to fence
-the area and eliminate grazing from the national monument. One of the
-biggest problems was the large acreage of private lands located within
-its boundary. Many ranchers believed that these lands ought to be
-eliminated &ldquo;from the Badlands National Monument wherever a reasonable
-boundary adjustment can be made.&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_208" href="#fn_208">[208]</a> Others contended &ldquo;that
-all of the grassland west of Pinnacles [Sage Creek Basin] could be removed
-from the Park and that such removal would in no way destroy
-the attraction to the tourist.&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_209" href="#fn_209">[209]</a></p>
-<p>A 1953 memorandum from the Regional Director to NPS Director
-Conrad L. Wirth explained how Sage Creek Basin had become largely
-government-owned:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>Sage Creek Basin was a submarginal waste in the 1930&rsquo;s due to
-prolonged and severe drought conditions and considerable
-acreages of private lands were acquired by the Resettlement
-Administration in connection with its submarginal land program....
-Other private parcels became tax delinquent and were ultimately
-sold to private owners by Pennington County in the
-1940&rsquo;s. Because of favorable climatic conditions of the past
-several years, the basin has recovered from its condition of the
-1930&rsquo;s; it now contains a considerable acreage of good grasslands....
-We venture the opinion that had vegetative conditions
-of the basin in the 1930&rsquo;s resembled those of today, a submarginal
-land program would not have been undertaken so far
-as the basin is concerned.<a class="fn" id="fr_210" href="#fn_210">[210]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>Owing to the great interest generated by the proposed boundary
-<span class="pb" id="Page_52">52</span>
-changes, the NPS issued a statement in July 1952 giving reasons why it
-would not be &ldquo;advisable to eliminate from the Monument the grasslands
-west of the Pinnacles, as suggested by the South Dakota Stock Growers
-Association.&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_211" href="#fn_211">[211]</a> It said in part that</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>These flatter lands with their cover of native grasses and wildflowers,
-typical of the surrounding prairie country, are valuable
-for park and wildlife purposes. The preservation of this relatively
-small exhibit of native grass is an important responsibility
-in itself, since no comparable section of the Great Plains has
-been set apart to be preserved in its natural condition.<a class="fn" id="fr_212" href="#fn_212">[212]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>The statement also indicated that about 31,700 acres of other lands
-were to be eliminated from the national monument, including more than
-12,000 acres of privately owned lands. It indicated that the Soil Conservation
-Service agreed to these revisions and that they were &ldquo;the same
-as those which the Congress considered when it authorized boundary
-revisions by enacting Public Law 328.&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_213" href="#fn_213">[213]</a></p>
-<p>On October 3, 1952, Assistant Secretary of the Interior Joel D. Wolfsohn
-issued an order revising the boundary of the national monument.
-The order showed that 30,802.52 acres, more or less, were &ldquo;hereby transferred
-from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture
-for use, administration, and disposition in accordance with the
-provisions of Title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act....&rdquo;
-This reduced the size of Badlands National Monument, according to the
-order, to 121,883.12 acres.<a class="fn" id="fr_214" href="#fn_214">[214]</a></p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>The Order was performed to provide lands for the Soil Conservation
-Service to enable those persons having private land in the
-monument to trade for Soil Conservation Service lands outside
-the monument, and to make a few administrative adjustments in
-the monument boundary.<a class="fn" id="fr_215" href="#fn_215">[215]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>However, discrepancies in the land records led the NPS to investigate
-the status of lands within the former boundary.<a class="fn" id="fr_216" href="#fn_216">[216]</a> By late 1953 it
-was found that 31,442.52 acres were eliminated from the national monument
-by the October 3 order instead of 30,802.52 acres. Of these
-12,916.32 acres were private lands; the remaining 18,526.20 acres were
-transferred to the Soil Conservation Service of the Department of Agriculture.<a class="fn" id="fr_217" href="#fn_217">[217]</a></p>
-<p>There were also lands totaling about 4,449 acres added to the national
-monument by the October 3 order; these lands included</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>&ldquo;2,581.88 acres of public domain, 336.88 acres of purchased land,
-981.79 acres of Soil Conservation Service land and 548.56 acres
-of private land.... The net result of the boundary adjustments
-was a loss of 26,993.23 acres of land in Badlands National Monument.&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_218" href="#fn_218">[218]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>Even before the October 3 order was enacted there was already talk
-about further reduction of the area boundary. In a memorandum dated
-December 5, 1952, Director Wirth wrote to the Regional Director in charge
-of Badlands National Monument:</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_53">53</div>
-<div class="img" id="fig24">
-<img src="images/p20.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="602" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 24<span class="center"> A PORTION OF SAGE CREEK BASIN</span></p>
-<p class="pcapc">In 1953 over 25,000 acres were recommended by the NPS for deletion from this section
-of the national monument.<a class="fn" id="fr_219" href="#fn_219">[219]</a> Later, studies revealed that the area should be retained.
-Today it is home for bison, deer, pronghorn, prairie dogs, and other animals. Sage Creek
-Primitive Campground is located in its northwest section.</p>
-</div>
-<blockquote>
-<p>The basis for a final solution [of the boundary problem at Badlands
-National Monument] lies in a reassessment and restatement
-of Monument objectives and significance. If it is found, as
-appears likely, that our chief concern and purpose should be
-with the badlands formations, then the boundaries should be
-drawn accordingly, with due regard for badlands protection,
-interpretation and attendant development needs. If we are to
-retain some or all of the grasslands, we must have strong and
-valid justification for doing so and be prepared to disclose and
-defend what specific Monument purposes and uses they are to
-serve.<a class="fn" id="fr_220" href="#fn_220">[220]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>In order to determine if the grasslands west of Pinnacles should be
-kept, the NPS contracted with a number of prominent scientists to make
-studies of the area in 1953. Dr. Theodore E. White, a paleontologist with
-the Smithsonian Institution, determined in June 1953 whether or not
-potentially fossiliferous areas would be excluded by proposed boundary
-readjustments.<a class="fn" id="fr_221" href="#fn_221">[221]</a> Late that summer archeological investigations were
-undertaken by Archeologist Paul L. Beaubien of the NPS Regional Office
-in Omaha, Nebraska. He recorded some 30 prehistoric Indian sites
-and one historic Indian site believed to have been used by Chief Big
-Foot&rsquo;s band a few days before the infamous battle at Wounded Knee in
-December 1890.<a class="fn" id="fr_222" href="#fn_222">[222]</a></p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_54">54</div>
-<p>Professor F.W. Albertson of Fort Hays Kansas State College submitted
-a <b>Report of Study of Grassland Areas of Badlands National Monument</b>
-in September. In brief he said, &ldquo;it seems to me that the Park Service
-has an extremely interesting area, which should be preserved for
-all interested public through the years to come.&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_223" href="#fn_223">[223]</a></p>
-<p>Meanwhile, support grew for retention of the boundaries as spelled
-out by the October 3, 1952, secretarial order. The Rapid City Chapter of
-the Izaak Walton League of America, the South Dakota State Highway
-Commission, the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks,
-the Black Hills and Badlands Association, and prominent local persons,
-including Sid Soma, Dr. G.W. Mills, Ted Hustead, and Leonel Jensen, all
-from the town of Wall, were but a few of the many who advocated retention
-of the present boundary.<a class="fn" id="fr_224" href="#fn_224">[224]</a></p>
-<p>Although the South Dakota Stock Growers Association and some
-local ranching interests continued to advocate &ldquo;the transfer of administration
-of all grazing lands within the monument not needed for road
-and development purposes,&rdquo; it became evident to these people that opposition
-was building up against further acreage reduction in the park.<a class="fn" id="fr_225" href="#fn_225">[225]</a></p>
-<p>In April 1954 the NPS recommended no boundary changes until the
-problem was explored further. Director Wirth said:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>it seems apparent that there is a very considerable number of
-people ... which strongly support the retention of the Badlands
-National Monument not only as a striking example of geological
-formations, with areas of paleontological interest, but also for
-preservation of a segment of the plains grassland and native
-wildlife as added attractions. On the other hand, there is also
-a difficult problem of inholdings and grazing complications,
-with strong sentiment from the livestock owners for a reduction
-of the Monument.<a class="fn" id="fr_226" href="#fn_226">[226]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>He recommended, among other things, that exchanges of private land
-inside the boundary for federal lands outside be pushed vigorously,
-and that Dr. Adolph Murie, NPS Biologist, should study the wildlife possibilities
-of the national monument.<a class="fn" id="fr_227" href="#fn_227">[227]</a></p>
-<p>In his report Dr. Murie said:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>Badlands National Monument has national significance, first of
-all because it is a sample of the Badlands. The values of this
-monument are of outstanding significance in the fields of geology,
-paleontology, archeology, and biology. The eroded terrain
-has scenic value for many, and in Sage Creek Basin and in
-the section north of Cedar Pass one finds the atmosphere of the
-early scene, when this country was far beyond the frontier....</p>
-<p>In Sage Creek Basin we have an opportunity to preserve the
-prairie dog-blackfooted ferret community, with many other associated
-species of the region.... Likewise the rare kit fox may
-possibly be preserved in the basin. The value of Sage Creek
-Basin for preserving these rare native species is contingent
-on size and its present size is none too large....</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_55">55</div>
-<p>Concerning boundaries in general over the monument it appears
-that any eliminations would be harmful to public values. Only
-in minor details, in connection with land adjustments, should
-any territory be sacrificed. Sage Creek Basin, especially,
-should not be reduced....<a class="fn" id="fr_228" href="#fn_228">[228]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>Also during the summer of 1954, the NPS requested Dr. James D.
-Bump, Director of Museum of Geology of the South Dakota School of
-Mines and Technology at Rapid City, to make a geological and paleontological
-appraisal of Badlands National Monument. Quotations from his
-report point out his strong feelings for the area:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>The Big Badlands of South Dakota, from a paleontological standpoint,
-probably constitutes the richest Oligocene region in the
-world.... [The quantity of] paleontological materials given
-up to man over the past 100 years is of astounding proportions.
-This prehistorical treasure represents more than 250 species of
-the vertebrate life of thirty million years ago....</p>
-<p>The Badlands National Monument is a part of the greatest badland-eroded
-section in North America.... I can think of no
-other geographic area of like-size that has the unusual natural
-beauty, the undisturbed plant and animal life and the wealth of
-scientific information to offer the public....<a class="fn" id="fr_229" href="#fn_229">[229]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>He ended his report by making a number of recommendations, some
-of which follow:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>The present boundaries must remain intact. Removal of any
-lands, except perhaps some thin scattered fringes, would seriously
-cripple future development and greatly reduce the attractiveness
-of the Monument....</p>
-<p>Under no circumstances should any part of the Sage Creek Basin
-be withdrawn. Its scientific and natural value cannot be overestimated
-and it is my opinion that this section will in the
-future become one of the most interesting and educational of
-the entire Monument.<a class="fn" id="fr_230" href="#fn_230">[230]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>As a result of Dr. Murie&rsquo;s wildlife study and Dr. Bump&rsquo;s geological
-and paleontological appraisal, the Service began formulating definite
-ideas in April 1955 concerning further revision of the boundary. An
-elimination of 11,124 acres including 4,234 acres of privately owned lands
-was proposed. This is only about one-third of the 32,000 acres which
-was being widely talked about as a possible reduction in size during
-1953. The larger reduction would have included much of the grasslands
-west of Pinnacles. Addition of 4,460 acres, including 3,954 acres of Pine
-Ridge Indian Reservation lands and 246 acres of Department of the
-Army lands located on the Indian reservation, was also proposed. Net
-reduction in area would be about 6,664 acres.<a class="fn" id="fr_231" href="#fn_231">[231]</a></p>
-<p>Since the mid-1930&rsquo;s there have been various suggestions that a
-road be constructed to connect Sage Creek Basin with the Sheep Mountain
-locality. Although it was not in the master plan for the national
-monument in the 1950&rsquo;s, planning for the ultimate boundary was done
-so that the road could be built if ultimately needed.<a class="fn" id="fr_232" href="#fn_232">[232]</a> However, Dr.
-Murie recommended against the road proposal in his report.<a class="fn" id="fr_233" href="#fn_233">[233]</a></p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_56">56</div>
-<div class="img" id="fig25">
-<img src="images/p21.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="466" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 25<span class="center"> BADLANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT VISITOR CENTER</span></p>
-<p class="pcapc">Dedicated in 1959, the building houses the national monument&rsquo;s administrative offices,
-exhibits on the Badlands, and a small theater in which there are narrated slide programs
-on the highlights of the Badlands. The facility is open all year.</p>
-</div>
-<p>On April 12, 1956, an open meeting was held in Wall, South Dakota,
-to discuss proposed boundary changes with ranchers, stockmen, and
-local businessmen. No opposition to the proposals was voiced. The
-meeting also provided an opportunity for discussion of development
-plans, including fencing and grazing matters.<a class="fn" id="fr_234" href="#fn_234">[234]</a></p>
-<p>On March 22, 1957, Acting Secretary of the Interior Hatfield Chilson
-issued an order eliminating 11,234.09 acres from the national monument,
-of which about 4,000 acres were private land. The total area of Badlands
-National Monument was fixed at 111,529.82 acres. This also included
-an addition of 240 acres of federal land which, among other things, increased
-the utility area at headquarters and provided a much needed
-disposal area. An additional 1.39 acres of federal land, located along
-the White River three miles south of headquarters, were added, since
-water storage tanks and a water pump, all part of the area&rsquo;s water system,
-are located there. More than 7,000 acres of the 11,234.09-acre reduction
-were transferred to the Department of Agriculture, under provisions
-of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, and became available for exchange
-for private land remaining inside the new boundary. As a result
-of the secretarial order, there was a net reduction of 10,992.70 acres in
-the size of the national monument. The new boundary included 98,486.39
-acres in federal ownership and 13,043.43 acres of non-federal land.<a class="fn" id="fr_235" href="#fn_235">[235]</a>
-Since then, the Service has acquired title to 6,356.71 acres of the non-federal
-land within the boundary. As of December 1967 there were
-104,843.10 acres of federal land and 6,686.72 acres of non-federal land
-within the boundary of Badlands National Monument.<a class="fn" id="fr_236" href="#fn_236">[236]</a></p>
-<p>On January 2, 1954, the Secretary of Agriculture transferred the Land
-Utilization Program, including lands in the vicinity of the national monument,
-<span class="pb" id="Page_57">57</span>
-from the Soil Conservation Service to the U.S. Forest Service.<a class="fn" id="fr_237" href="#fn_237">[237]</a>
-This, in part, prompted a <b>Program of Procedure for Land Exchanges</b>, a
-revision of the <b>Recommended Program of Procedure</b>, to be drafted. The
-new agreement was signed in September 1954 by officials of both services.
-It states in part that all future land exchanges are to be handled
-by the Forest Service. This includes exchanges with private parties
-who own land inside the national monument boundary. One objective
-of such land exchanges is to eliminate all non-federal lands from within
-Badlands National Monument.<a class="fn" id="fr_238" href="#fn_238">[238]</a> Since 1954 elimination of such lands
-has come about largely through exchanges, although in a few instances
-actual purchases were made.</p>
-<div class="img" id="fig26">
-<img src="images/p21a.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="429" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 26<span class="center"> RIBBON-CUTTING CEREMONY AT BADLANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT DEDICATION, SEPTEMBER 16, 1959</span></p>
-<p class="pcapc">Left to Right: NPS Regional Director Howard Baker, Region Two (now Midwest Region);
-Conrad Wirth, NPS Director; Fred Seaton, Secretary of the Interior; Congressman
-E.Y. Berry; Mrs. George H. Sholly, widow of Badlands National Monument Superintendent;
-Mrs. Ralph Herseth; and Governor Ralph Herseth of South Dakota.</p>
-</div>
-<p>Concurrently with boundary adjustments, the NPS gave considerable
-thought to a grazing management plan for the area whereby grazing
-might be eliminated without serious hardship to the local ranchers. As
-a result the Service presented a plan in May 1948 to grazing permittees
-outlining a schedule for the gradual termination of grazing on federally
-owned national monument lands by December 31, 1961.<a class="fn" id="fr_239" href="#fn_239">[239]</a></p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_59">59</div>
-<h2 id="c8"><span class="small">MISSION 66 DEVELOPMENT</span></h2>
-<p>In 1956, the National Park Service launched a 10-year park conservation
-development program known as Mission 66. This was to have
-great impact on the national monument. Under the program an expenditure
-of nearly $5,000,000 for roads, trails, buildings, and utilities was planned.
-Among the major projects undertaken and completed between 1956
-and 1960 were a realinement and oil surfacing of main roads, the development
-of the Conata Picnic Area and the Cedar Pass and Dillon
-Pass campgrounds, and the erection of utility and storage buildings,
-three multiple-housing units, five employee residences, and an amphitheater.<a class="fn" id="fr_240" href="#fn_240">[240]</a></p>
-<p>In May 1955 the Millard family donated two tracts of land totaling
-18.50 acres to the NPS. Of this total, 5.85 acres, located in front of Cedar
-Pass Lodge, were donated for the right-of-way of the relocated highway;
-the remaining 12.65 acres made possible the development of Cedar Pass
-Campground.<a class="fn" id="fr_241" href="#fn_241">[241]</a></p>
-<p>The visitor center was completed in May 1959. This large structure
-houses the national monument headquarters, interpretive exhibits, and
-an audiovisual presentation of the Badlands story.<a class="fn" id="fr_242" href="#fn_242">[242]</a></p>
-<p>The installation of exhibits in the visitor center was essentially completed
-by November 1960.<a class="fn" id="fr_243" href="#fn_243">[243]</a> Some of the materials used in the exhibits
-were donated by a number of individuals and institutions. Mr. Herbert
-Millard, son of the late Ben Millard, gave a large mass of sand calcite
-crystals now in the Small Wonders Exhibit. Dr. Winter of the University
-of South Dakota at Vermillion donated the plant collection in the Great
-Plains Grasslands Exhibit. The mounted badger in the Wildlife of the
-Grassland Exhibit was a gift from Orville Sandall of Kadoka, South
-Dakota. The skull of an Audubon Bighorn, on display above the Breaks
-in the Grassland Exhibit, was donated by Willard Sharp of Interior,
-South Dakota. In the exhibit showing a number of Indian artifacts are
-casts of early-man points donated by the University of Nebraska State
-Museum.<a class="fn" id="fr_244" href="#fn_244">[244]</a></p>
-<p>The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City,
-South Dakota, donated both the lower jaw and the upper jaw, including
-skull, of a fossilized titanothere, which is in the Badlands Bones Exhibit.
-The materials for the articulated oreodont fossil in the same exhibit were
-also donated by the school. The oreodont fossil is of particular interest
-because it was found northwest of Imlay, South Dakota about 100 feet
-from where a famous fossilized oreodont with unborn twins was excavated.
-The latter fossil is on display at the Museum of Geology at
-the school (see <a href="#fig5">Figure 5</a>).<a class="fn" id="fr_245" href="#fn_245">[245]</a></p>
-<p>The first full-time resident park naturalist for Badlands National
-Monument was assigned in June 1958 to aid with the local interpretive
-program.<a class="fn" id="fr_246" href="#fn_246">[246]</a> For a number of years previously, a park naturalist who
-had been assigned to Black Hills areas of the NPS also served the national
-monument on an irregular basis.<a class="fn" id="fr_247" href="#fn_247">[247]</a></p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_60">60</div>
-<div class="img" id="fig27">
-<img src="images/p22.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="632" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 27<span class="center"> CLIFF SHELF NATURE TRAIL</span></p>
-<p class="pcapc">The loop trail, completed in 1962, is constructed over a geological slump which has lush
-plant cover. To acquaint the visitor with the area&rsquo;s natural history, a trail leaflet is
-provided. Here, naturalist-guided walks are offered daily during the summer months.<a class="fn" id="fr_250" href="#fn_250">[250]</a></p>
-</div>
-<p>On September 16, 1959, following the completion of the visitor center,
-the NPS dedicated Badlands National Monument. The featured speaker
-for the event was Fred A. Seaton, Secretary of the Interior, who gave the
-dedicatory address. Some 350 persons attended the ceremony.<a class="fn" id="fr_248" href="#fn_248">[248]</a></p>
-<p>Tragedy struck a short time prior to the dedication with the sudden
-death of Superintendent George H. Sholly on August 19. As a tribute
-to him, the new amphitheater was named the George H. Sholly Memorial
-Amphitheater.<a class="fn" id="fr_249" href="#fn_249">[249]</a></p>
-<p>After the boundary of Badlands National Monument was redefined
-by secretarial order in March 1957, the NPS began a long-range program
-for fencing it. The first segment of fencing was completed in 1957. By
-early 1961 some 108 miles were fenced with 20 miles still to be completed.
-To fence non-federal land excluding state land within the national
-monument would require an additional 92 miles of fence.<a class="fn" id="fr_252" href="#fn_252">[252]</a></p>
-<p>In December 1961 letters were delivered to all inholding owners and
-to all persons who grazed stock within the national monument in that
-year. The letters terminated all grazing on federal lands within Badlands,
-and gave a short history of grazing in the national monument, the
-reason for termination, and the objectives and plans of the Service now
-that grazing was no longer permitted. Most of the private land located
-<span class="pb" id="Page_61">61</span>
-inside the boundary was not fenced, so unless steps were taken to fence
-the tracts used for grazing, stock would still trespass on federally owned
-lands.<a class="fn" id="fr_253" href="#fn_253">[253]</a> Superintendent John W. Jay and Chief Park Ranger James F.
-Batman attended the legislative-committee meeting of the South Dakota
-Stockgrowers Association in Rapid City on November 30, 1961, where the
-matter of fencing the inholdings was discussed. Although at the time
-of this meeting the Service had no plans to fence any of the private
-inholdings, it later decided to assist with the fencing on an equal cost-sharing
-basis in the interest of better landowner-Service relations and in
-consideration of special situations relating to livestock management that
-faced some of the owners of private land in the national monument.<a class="fn" id="fr_254" href="#fn_254">[254]</a>
-This offer was made to the landowners by letter from Superintendent Jay
-dated May 9, 1962. As a result three landowners accepted the offer.<a class="fn" id="fr_255" href="#fn_255">[255]</a>
-By 1964 all of the inholdings on which grazing was being done were
-fenced either on a 50-50 basis or by the individual owners.<a class="fn" id="fr_256" href="#fn_256">[256]</a></p>
-<div class="img" id="fig28">
-<img src="images/p22a.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="553" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 28<span class="center"> FOSSIL EXHIBIT TRAIL</span></p>
-<p class="pcapc">Completed in 1962, this paved trail is unique in that along it are displayed partially
-excavated fossils protected by clear plastic domes. A shelter, located midway along the
-trail, houses exhibits which tell a brief story of Badlands fossils.<a class="fn" id="fr_251" href="#fn_251">[251]</a></p>
-</div>
-<p>Despite the Service&rsquo;s hope that grazing on the national monument&rsquo;s
-federally owned land would be terminated at the end of 1961, it continued.
-Due to drought conditions of 1961 and early 1962, Congressman
-Berry requested on behalf of the ranchers that grazing be continued during
-1962. NPS Director Wirth decided to set up an emergency grazing
-program that would include only those ranchers who held permits in
-1961. Accordingly, special-use permits were issued to 26 ranchers during
-1962. This was the last year that grazing was permitted on federally
-owned lands in the national monument.<a class="fn" id="fr_257" href="#fn_257">[257]</a></p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_62">62</div>
-<p>Some livestock trespassing by local ranchers continued, nevertheless.
-In November 1962, the United States Attorney took direct action against
-five ranchers who had been in trespass for some time.<a class="fn" id="fr_258" href="#fn_258">[258]</a></p>
-<p>As early as 1919 a U.S. Forest Service report expressed the idea that
-&ldquo;Sage Creek Basin contains a large acreage of land that can be used
-for a game preserve for buffalo, elk, deer, antelope and mountain
-sheep.&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_259" href="#fn_259">[259]</a> In 1935 the proposed Badlands National Monument plus the
-Badlands Recreational Demonstrational Area (most of which was later
-included in the national monument when it was established in 1939)
-were considered to be favorable localities for the reintroduction of buffalo,
-mountain sheep, and pronghorn.<a class="fn" id="fr_260" href="#fn_260">[260]</a></p>
-<p>However, after the national monument was established, the NPS
-believed that the area was too small to provide a wildlife range.<a class="fn" id="fr_261" href="#fn_261">[261]</a> Dr.
-Murie&rsquo;s report</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>recommended that no buffalo be introduced on the monument
-because of the artificial conditions under which they would have
-to be maintained. If it were deemed desirable to fence an
-area for buffalo the most suitable spot would be north of Cedar
-Pass.<a class="fn" id="fr_262" href="#fn_262">[262]</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>Concerning bighorn sheep he &ldquo;recommended that the bighorn be
-introduced when the opportunity develops, and that Sheep Mountain
-Peak be added to the monument for the use of the bighorn.&rdquo;<a class="fn" id="fr_263" href="#fn_263">[263]</a></p>
-<p>Pronghorn, commonly referred to as antelope, were seen during the
-1940&rsquo;s on rare occasions in Badlands National Monument and just outside
-the north boundary. However since 1959, 100 or more head have
-been reported annually in the national monument. These animals have
-come from the outside since there has not been any formal reintroduction
-of pronghorn inside the boundary.<a class="fn" id="fr_264" href="#fn_264">[264]</a></p>
-<div class="img" id="fig29">
-<img src="images/p23.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="398" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 29<span class="center"> AMERICAN BISON AGAIN IN THE BADLANDS</span></p>
-<p class="pcapc">After an absence of about a century, buffalo were reintroduced into the national monument
-in 1963. The fast-increasing herd roams largely in the 45,000 acres of Sage Creek
-and Tyree Basins.<a class="fn" id="fr_268" href="#fn_268">[268]</a></p>
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_63">63</div>
-<div class="img" id="fig30">
-<img src="images/p23a.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="452" />
-<p class="pcap">Figure 30<span class="center"> REINTRODUCTION OF BIGHORN SHEEP, 1964</span></p>
-<p class="pcapc">These Rocky Mountain Bighorns are closely related to the now-extinct Audubon Bighorns.<a class="fn" id="fr_269" href="#fn_269">[269]</a></p>
-</div>
-<p>Immediately after grazing was terminated on national monument
-lands in 1962, the range underwent a remarkable recovery, due to the
-abundant rainfall of the 1962 and 1963 seasons. Questions arose as to
-why the range was not being utilized. Superintendent Frank Hjort recommended
-that bison be reintroduced as a means of getting the wildlife
-restoration program underway.<a class="fn" id="fr_265" href="#fn_265">[265]</a></p>
-<p>In November 1963 the first herd of bison, comprised of 28 head from
-Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park in North Dakota and Fort
-Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge in Nebraska, were released in Sage
-Creek Basin. In October of the following year, this herd was enlarged
-by an additional 25 head from Theodore Roosevelt. The herd has done
-well and by the end of 1967 numbered 122 individuals.<a class="fn" id="fr_266" href="#fn_266">[266]</a></p>
-<p>Since 1963 the buffalo have shown that they prefer the remoteness
-of Sage Creek Basin and have demonstrated little desire to leave that
-area.<a class="fn" id="fr_267" href="#fn_267">[267]</a></p>
-<p>In January 1964 in cooperation with the South Dakota Game, Fish
-and Parks Department, bighorn sheep were reintroduced. Twelve head
-of Rocky Mountain Bighorns from Colorado were released in a 370-acre
-holding pen with the view toward eventually restocking Badlands National
-Monument and other parts of South Dakota. This flock was supplemented
-by ten more animals the following month.<a class="fn" id="fr_270" href="#fn_270">[270]</a></p>
-<p>Unfortunately, losses were suffered by both adults and lambs during
-the first two and one-half years. The situation improved early in 1966
-with no further losses until the summer of 1967 when the peak flock of
-27 individuals suffered a severe setback. In September, when all but
-13 had succumbed to a respiratory infection, the bighorn were released
-<span class="pb" id="Page_64">64</span>
-from the holding pasture. They now roam the rugged Badlands south
-of Pinnacles Overlook.<a class="fn" id="fr_271" href="#fn_271">[271]</a></p>
-<p>In February 1964, the NPS purchased Cedar Pass Lodge, together
-with 72 acres of the surrounding land, for $275,000 from the Millard family.
-The lodge is now being run on a contract basis by a concessioner.<a class="fn" id="fr_272" href="#fn_272">[272]</a></p>
-<p>Increased travel to the area during the years of Mission 66 fully
-justified the expanded development program of the national monument.
-From 1956 to 1966 the number of visitors increased 65 percent (see <a href="#c9">Appendix A</a>).</p>
-<p>Because of this great increase in travel, the summer visitor may find
-some of the scenic-overlook parking areas full, the visitor center crowded,
-and the nightly campground amphitheater program with &ldquo;standing room
-only.&rdquo; Since increased visitor use is practically assured in the foreseeable
-future, plans are already being made to provide additional facilities
-for visitors to Badlands National Monument.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_65">65</div>
-<h2 id="c9"><span class="small">APPENDIX A</span>
-<br />ANNUAL NUMBER OF VISITS TO BADLANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT SINCE ITS ESTABLISHMENT<a class="fn" id="fr_273" href="#fn_273">[273]</a></h2>
-<table class="center" summary="">
-<tr class="th"><th>Year </th><th>Total Visits </th><th colspan="2">Percent increase or decrease over previous year</th></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1938<a class="fn" id="fr_a" href="#fn_a">[a]</a> </td><td class="r">175,000 </td><td class="r"></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1939 </td><td class="r">205,100 </td><td class="r">17.2</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1940 </td><td class="r">190,243 </td><td class="r">-7.2</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1941 </td><td class="r">252,878 </td><td class="r">32.9</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1942 </td><td class="r">87,231 </td><td class="r">-65.5</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1943 </td><td class="r">10,149 </td><td class="r">-88.4</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1944 </td><td class="r">10,349 </td><td class="r">2.0</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1945 </td><td class="r">31,377 </td><td class="r">203.2</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1946 </td><td class="r">230,403 </td><td class="r">634.3</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1947 </td><td class="r">339,843 </td><td class="r">47.5</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1948 </td><td class="r">384,133 </td><td class="r">13.0</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1949 </td><td class="r">373,076 </td><td class="r">-2.9</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1950 </td><td class="r">447,654 </td><td class="r">20.0</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1951 </td><td class="r">607,965 </td><td class="r">35.8</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1952 </td><td class="r">580,902 </td><td class="r">-4.5</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1953 </td><td class="r">658,691 </td><td class="r">13.4</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1954 </td><td class="r">664,997 </td><td class="r">1.0</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1955 </td><td class="r">630,881 </td><td class="r">-5.1</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1956 </td><td class="r">663,246 </td><td class="r">5.1</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1957 </td><td class="r">701,094 </td><td class="r">5.7</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1958 </td><td class="r">810,837 </td><td class="r">15.7</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1959 </td><td class="r">825,184 </td><td class="r">1.8</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1960 </td><td class="r">878,625 </td><td class="r">6.5</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1961 </td><td class="r">833,279 </td><td class="r">-5.2</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1962 </td><td class="r">1,044,768 </td><td class="r">25.4</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1963 </td><td class="r">1,073,971 </td><td class="r">2.8</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1964 </td><td class="r">1,079,837 </td><td class="r">0.5</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1965 </td><td class="r">1,091,261 </td><td class="r">1.1</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1966 </td><td class="r">1,094,754 </td><td class="r">0.3</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="l">1967 </td><td class="r">1,188,666 </td><td class="r">8.6</td></tr>
-</table>
-<div class="fnblock">
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_a" href="#fr_a">[a]</a>The figures for 1938 have not been used to calculate total visitation
-to the national monument since the year is before the area was
-officially established.</div>
-</div>
-<p>Average annual increase in number of visits in the last 15 years has
-been about 5%.</p>
-<p>In September 1954, 15&frac12; years after the national monument was
-established, the five millionth visit was recorded. A total of ten million
-visits was attained just seven years later in July 1961. On August 16,
-1966, Superintendent Frank A. Hjort officially welcomed a traveler and
-his family who represented the 15 millionth visit to Badlands National
-<span class="pb" id="Page_66">66</span>
-Monument. At the present rate of travel increase, the 20 millionth visit
-is expected in 1970. As of December 31, 1967, the total number of visits
-to the national monument since its establishment in 1939 is 16,991,394.</p>
-<p>The NPS travel year has been the same as a regular calendar year
-since January 1, 1953. Before that date, the NPS travel year was from
-October through September. However, total visits prior to 1953 have
-been recalculated to show actual calendar year totals.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_67">67</div>
-<h2 id="c10"><span class="small">APPENDIX B</span>
-<br />CUSTODIANS AND SUPERINTENDENTS of Badlands National Monument<a class="fn" id="fr_274" href="#fn_274">[274]</a></h2>
-<table class="center" summary="">
-<tr><td class="r">1. </td><td class="l">Howard B. Stricklin </td><td class="l">Acting Custodian </td><td class="l">August 11, 1939-December 31, 1943</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="r"> </td><td class="l"> </td><td class="l">Custodian </td><td class="l">January 1, 1944-July 18, 1944</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="r"> </td><td class="l"> </td><td colspan="2" class="l">(Military furlough; July 19, 1944-January 13, 1946)</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="r"> </td><td class="l"> </td><td class="l">Custodian </td><td class="l">January 14, 1946-July 13, 1948</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="r">2. </td><td class="l">Warren K. Leland </td><td class="l">Custodian </td><td class="l">July 19, 1944-March 20, 1945</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="r">3. </td><td class="l">Lyle K. Linch </td><td class="l">Acting Custodian </td><td class="l">June 22, 1945-January 13, 1946</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="r">4. </td><td class="l">John E. Suter </td><td class="l">Custodian </td><td class="l">July 27, 1948-December 31, 1948</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="r"> </td><td class="l">John E. Suter </td><td class="l">Superintendent </td><td class="l">January 1, 1949-January 8, 1953</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="r">5. </td><td class="l">John A. Rutter </td><td class="l">Superintendent </td><td class="l">April 12, 1953-November 30, 1957</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="r">6. </td><td class="l">George H. Sholly </td><td class="l">Superintendent </td><td class="l">January 26, 1958-August 19, 1959<a class="fn" id="fr_b" href="#fn_b">[b]</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="r">7. </td><td class="l">Frank E. Sylvester </td><td class="l">Superintendent </td><td class="l">February 15, 1960-October 29, 1960</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="r">8. </td><td class="l">John W. Jay, Jr. </td><td class="l">Superintendent </td><td class="l">December 11, 1960-October 31, 1962</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="r">9. </td><td class="l">Frank A. Hjort </td><td class="l">Superintendent </td><td class="l">February 10, 1963-September 23, 1967</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="r">10. </td><td class="l">John R. Earnst </td><td class="l">Superintendent </td><td class="l">October 22, 1967-</td></tr>
-</table>
-<div class="fnblock">
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_b" href="#fr_b">[b]</a>Mr. Sholly died from a heart attack on the evening of this date.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_69">69</div>
-<h2 id="c11"><span class="small">APPENDIX C</span>
-<br />PICTURE CREDITS</h2>
-<p>The sources for illustrations used in this publication are shown below. Dates when
-each of the photographic illustrations was taken are noted, if known, in parentheses.
-<b>Department of the Interior, National Park Service</b> has been abbreviated to DINPS for
-use in designating illustrations supplied by the NPS. The numbers to the left correspond
-to figure numbers under the illustrations in the text.</p>
-<dl class="undent"><dt>1. <b>Report of a Geological Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota; and incidentally of a portion of Nebraska Territory</b>, 1852, page 196.</dt>
-<dt>2. Figure 64, page 127, South Dakota School of Mines Bulletin 13, November 1920.</dt>
-<dt>3. <b>Report of a Geological Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota; and incidentally of a portion of Nebraska Territory</b>, 1852, between pages 196 and 197.</dt>
-<dt>4. DINPS (November 20, 1967). Note: The Badlands Natural History Association is grateful to Mr. Leonel Jensen, local rancher, for help in locating the site of this trail. It is in S-1/2 sec. 30, T. 1 S., R. 15 E. of the Black Hills Meridian.</dt>
-<dt>5. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota.</dt>
-<dt>6. <b>The Rapid City Daily Journal</b>, Monday, September 27, 1965.</dt>
-<dt>7. Louis Blumer, Wall, South Dakota (about 1911).</dt>
-<dt>8. A.E. Johnson, Interior, South Dakota (December 1906).</dt>
-<dt>9. Ted E. Hustead, Wall Drug Store, Wall, South Dakota (1907).</dt>
-<dt>10. Plate No. 56B, South Dakota School of Mines Bulletin 13, November 1920.</dt>
-<dt>11. Keith Crew, Interior, South Dakota; from a postcard mailed June 5, 1909.</dt>
-<dt>12. Leonel Jensen, Wall, South Dakota (fall 1908; Louis J. Jensen family).</dt>
-<dt>13. Leslie Crew, Interior, South Dakota; from a postcard mailed December 19, 1908.</dt>
-<dt>14. Rise Studio, Rapid City, South Dakota.</dt>
-<dt>15. Black Hills Studios, Inc., Spearfish, South Dakota.</dt>
-<dt>16. DINPS.</dt>
-<dt>17. DINPS.</dt>
-<dt>18. DINPS (December 6, 1964).</dt>
-<dt>19. DINPS (1938).</dt>
-<dt>20. DINPS (about 1934).</dt>
-<dt>21. DINPS (June 1941).</dt>
-<dt>22. DINPS (June 7, 1950).</dt>
-<dt>23. DINPS.</dt>
-<dt>24. DINPS (spring 1964).</dt>
-<dt>25. DINPS (August 1960).</dt>
-<dt>26. DINPS (September 16, 1959).</dt>
-<dt>27. DINPS (summer 1962).</dt>
-<dt>28. DINPS (July 1962).</dt>
-<dt>29. DINPS (January 9, 1964).</dt>
-<dt>30. DINPS (January 25, 1964).</dt></dl>
-<p>The Badlands Natural History Association wishes to extend its sincere thanks to
-these individuals and organizations for granting the association permission to use the
-illustrations.</p>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_71">71</div>
-<h2 id="c12"><span class="small">APPENDIX D</span>
-<br />Footnotes and References</h2>
-<p>All references used in compiling this history are on hand in the Badlands National
-Monument library or files for further study. Where actual reports, correspondence, or
-books were not available, copies have been obtained from such sources as the National
-Archives, Library of Congress, National Park Service, and various public and university
-libraries.</p>
-<p>For the sake of simplicity, the following abbreviation has been used where
-appropriate:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>PNC&mdash;copies of items from the Peter Norbeck Collections, University
-of South Dakota, Vermillion, which pertain to the establishment of
-Badlands National Monument are in a bound volume in the national
-monument library.</p>
-</blockquote>
-<div class="fnblock">
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_1" href="#fr_1">[1]</a>Dee C. Taylor, <b>Salvage Archeology in Badlands National Monument, South
-Dakota</b> (Missoula: Montana State University, 1961), pp. 79, 80.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_2" href="#fr_2">[2]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, p. 75.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_3" href="#fr_3">[3]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, p. 80.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_4" href="#fr_4">[4]</a>Herbert S. Schell, <b>History of South Dakota</b> (Lincoln: University of Nebraska
-Press, 1961), p. 16.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_5" href="#fr_5">[5]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, pp. 17-23.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_6" href="#fr_6">[6]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, pp. 24-36.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_7" href="#fr_7">[7]</a>Lt. G.K. Warren, <b>Preliminary Report of Explorations in Nebraska and Dakota
-in the Years 1855-&rsquo;56-&rsquo;57</b> (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1875),
-p. 26; J.R. Macdonald, &ldquo;The History and Exploration of the Big Badlands of
-South Dakota,&rdquo; <b>Guide Book Fifth Field Conference of the Society of Vertebrate
-Paleontology in Western South Dakota</b>, ed. James D. Bump (Sponsored by the
-Museum of Geology of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology,
-Rapid City, August 29-September 1, 1951), p. 31.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_8" href="#fr_8">[8]</a>Hiram M. Chittenden, and Alfred T. Richardson, eds., <b>Life, Letters and Travels of
-Father Pierre-Jean De Smet. S.J., 1801-1873</b> (New York: Francis P. Harper, 1905),
-vol. 2, pp. 622, 623.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_9" href="#fr_9">[9]</a>Charles L. Camp, ed., <b>James Clyman American Frontiersman 1792-1881</b> (Cleveland:
-The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1928), p. 24.</div>
-<div class="fncont">Note: Dale Morgan was of the opinion that the <b>jornada</b> which Clyman
-describes was through country south of the White River, and that Smith&rsquo;s
-party by-passed almost entirely that portion of the South Dakota Badlands
-now set apart as a national monument [Dale L. Morgan, <b>Jedediah
-Smith and the Opening of the West</b> (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill
-Company, Inc., 1953), p. 386, f.n. 10]. Just a year later, however, Morgan
-published new evidence found in the Gibbs map to back up the opposite
-interpretation of Clyman&rsquo;s journals. He now believes that the Smith party
-followed the White River exclusively, keeping to the north bank all the
-way to possibly near the mouth of Willow Creek, located east and a little
-south from the present town of Hot Springs, South Dakota. This means
-the party would have at least seen, and perhaps passed through the present
-Badlands National Monument. [Dale L. Morgan and Carl I. Wheat,
-<b>Jedediah Smith and his Maps of the American West</b> (California Historical
-Society, 1954), p. 49.]</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_10" href="#fr_10">[10]</a>Reuben G. Thwaites, ed., <b>Travels in the Interior of North America by Maximilian,
-Prince of Wied</b> (Cleveland: The A.H. Clark Company, 1906), vol. 3, p. 90.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_11" href="#fr_11">[11]</a>Chittenden and Richardson, op. cit., p. 624.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_12" href="#fr_12">[12]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, pp. 624, 625.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_13" href="#fr_13">[13]</a>Cleophas C. O&rsquo;Harra, <b>The White River Badlands</b> (Rapid City: South Dakota
-School of Mines, Bulletin No. 13, Department of Geology, November 1920), pp.
-123, 128.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_14" href="#fr_14">[14]</a>John Francis McDermott, ed., <b>Journal of an Expedition to the Mauvaises Terres
-and the Upper Missouri in 1850</b>, Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American
-Ethnology, Bulletin 147 (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952), p. 1.</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_72">72</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_15" href="#fr_15">[15]</a>Macdonald, op. cit., p. 31; <b>American Journal of Science</b>, vol. 3, no. 7, 2d series,
-January 1847, pp. 248-250; O&rsquo;Harra, op. cit., pp. 23, 24, 110-117, 161.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_16" href="#fr_16">[16]</a>McDermott, <b>op. cit.</b>, p. 1.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_17" href="#fr_17">[17]</a><b>Ibid.</b></div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_18" href="#fr_18">[18]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, p. 2; Macdonald, <b>op. cit.</b>, p. 31.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_19" href="#fr_19">[19]</a>E. de Girardin, &ldquo;A Trip to the Bad Lands in 1849,&rdquo; <b>South Dakota Historical
-Review, I</b> (January 1936), 60.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_20" href="#fr_20">[20]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, p. 62.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_21" href="#fr_21">[21]</a><b>Ibid.</b></div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_22" href="#fr_22">[22]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, pp. 64, 65.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_23" href="#fr_23">[23]</a>David Dale Owen, <b>Report of a Geological Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota;
-and Incidentally of a Portion of Nebraska Territory</b> (Philadelphia: Lippincott,
-Grambo, and Co., 1852), pp. 196, 197.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_24" href="#fr_24">[24]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, pp. 197, 198.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_25" href="#fr_25">[25]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, pp. 198-206, 539-572.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_26" href="#fr_26">[26]</a>McDermott, <b>op. cit.</b>, pp. 2, 3, 54, 55, 59.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_27" href="#fr_27">[27]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, pp. 60, 61.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_28" href="#fr_28">[28]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, p. 65.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_29" href="#fr_29">[29]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, p. 64.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_30" href="#fr_30">[30]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, pp. 3, 4.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_31" href="#fr_31">[31]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, p. 2.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_32" href="#fr_32">[32]</a>Lt. G.K. Warren, &ldquo;Explorations in the Dacota Country in the Year 1855,&rdquo; <b>Senate
-Ex. Doc. No. 76, 34th Congress, 1st Session</b> (Washington: U.S. Government Printing
-Office, 1956), p. 76.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_33" href="#fr_33">[33]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, pp. 66-76.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_34" href="#fr_34">[34]</a>Letter, Will G. Robinson, Secretary, South Dakota State Historical Society, to
-John W. Stockert, September 26, 1967; South Dakota Historical Society, <b>South
-Dakota Department of History Report and Historical Collections</b> (Pierre, S.D.:
-State Publishing Company, 1962), vol. XXXI, p. 280.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_35" href="#fr_35">[35]</a>Warren, <b>op. cit.</b>, p. 76.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_36" href="#fr_36">[36]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, p. 74.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_37" href="#fr_37">[37]</a>O&rsquo;Harra, <b>op. cit.</b>, pp. 24, 161-163.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_38" href="#fr_38">[38]</a>Ray H. Mattison, ed., &ldquo;The Harney Expedition Against the Sioux: The Journal
-of Captain John B.S. Todd,&rdquo; <b>Nebraska History</b>, XLIII (June 1962), 92, 130.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_39" href="#fr_39">[39]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, p. 122.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_40" href="#fr_40">[40]</a><b>Ibid.</b></div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_41" href="#fr_41">[41]</a>O&rsquo;Harra, <b>op. cit.</b>, p. 25.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_42" href="#fr_42">[42]</a>Charles Schuchert, and Clara Mae LeVene, <b>O.C. Marsh, Pioneer in Paleontology</b>
-(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1940), pp. 139-168; U.S. National Park Service,
-<b>Soldier and Brave</b> (New York: Harper and Row, 1963), pp. 135, 136.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_43" href="#fr_43">[43]</a>O&rsquo;Harra, <b>op. cit.</b>, p. 26.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_44" href="#fr_44">[44]</a>Macdonald, <b>op. cit.</b>, p. 32.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_45" href="#fr_45">[45]</a>O&rsquo;Harra, <b>op. cit.</b>, p. 29.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_46" href="#fr_46">[46]</a>Macdonald, <b>op. cit.</b>, p. 33.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_47" href="#fr_47">[47]</a>Louis Knoles, Forest Ranger, &ldquo;A Report on the Bad Lands of South Dakota,&rdquo; 1919,
-pp. 20, 21.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_48" href="#fr_48">[48]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, p. 2; Letter, Mrs. E.T. Jurisch, Farmingdale, South Dakota, to George Crouch,
-Wall, South Dakota, May 24, 1965.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_49" href="#fr_49">[49]</a>Knoles, <b>op. cit.</b>, p. 22.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_50" href="#fr_50">[50]</a>Jackson-Washabaugh County Historical Society, <b>Jackson-Washabaugh Counties
-1915-1965</b> (Marceline, Mo.: Walsworth, n.d.), p. 11; Interview, A.E. Johnson,
-Interior, S.D., by John W. Stockert, January 30, 1968.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_51" href="#fr_51">[51]</a>Robert M. Utley, <b>The Last Days of the Sioux Nation</b> (New Haven: Yale University
-Press, 1963), pp. 40-59.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_52" href="#fr_52">[52]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, pp. 184-199.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_53" href="#fr_53">[53]</a>Frederic Remington, &ldquo;Lieutenant Casey&rsquo;s Last Scout,&rdquo; <b>Harper&rsquo;s Weekly</b>, XXXV
-(January 31, 1891), 86.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_54" href="#fr_54">[54]</a>Knoles, <b>op. cit.</b>, p. 4.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_55" href="#fr_55">[55]</a>William H. Burt, and Richard P. Grossenheider, <b>A Field Guide to the Mammals</b>
-(Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964), p. 75; Knowles, <b>op. cit.</b>, p. 22; Louis
-Blumer, Wall, S.D., interview by John W. Stockert, January 15, 1968.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_56" href="#fr_56">[56]</a>Walker D. Wyman, Recorder, <b>Nothing But Prairie and Sky</b> (Norman: University
-of Oklahoma Press, 1954), p. 46.</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_73">73</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_57" href="#fr_57">[57]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, pp. 47-52.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_58" href="#fr_58">[58]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, pp. 75-81.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_59" href="#fr_59">[59]</a>Jackson-Washabaugh County Historical Society, <b>op. cit.</b>, pp. 11, 136, 142.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_60" href="#fr_60">[60]</a>Interview, Leonel Jensen, Wall, S.D., by Ray H. Mattison, June 2, 1965; statement
-confirmed by A.E. Johnson, Interior, S.D., February 10, 1968.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_61" href="#fr_61">[61]</a>Schell, <b>op. cit.</b>, p. 343.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_62" href="#fr_62">[62]</a>Photograph identified by Grace Sullivan Blair, Martin, S.D., A.E. Johnson and
-Rolla J. Burkholder, Interior, S.D.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_63" href="#fr_63">[63]</a>Schell, <b>op. cit.</b>, p. 343.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_64" href="#fr_64">[64]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, p. 256.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_65" href="#fr_65">[65]</a>U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, <b>Fifteenth Census of the
-United States: 1930 Population</b>, Vol. I (Washington: U.S. Government Printing
-Office, 1931), pp. 1015, 1019.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_66" href="#fr_66">[66]</a>Luman H. Long, ed., <b>The World Almanac 1966</b> (New York: New York World-Telegram
-and The Sun, 1966), p. 375.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_67" href="#fr_67">[67]</a>Letter, Senator Peter Norbeck to Prof. W.C. Toepelman, University of South
-Dakota, May 22, 1922, PNC, p. 3.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_68" href="#fr_68">[68]</a>Interview, Leonel Jensen, Wall, S.D., by John W. Stockert, March 20, 1967.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_69" href="#fr_69">[69]</a><b>Congressional Record</b>, 61st Cong., 1st Sess., 44:50, 58, 115, 128.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_70" href="#fr_70">[70]</a>Knoles, <b>op. cit.</b>, pp. 17, 18.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_71" href="#fr_71">[71]</a><b>Ibid.</b></div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_72" href="#fr_72">[72]</a>Gilbert C. Fite, &ldquo;Peter Norbeck,&rdquo; <b>Dictionary of American Biography</b>, ed. Robert
-L. Schuyler (New York: Charles Scribner&rsquo;s Sons, 1958), XXII, 491, 492.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_73" href="#fr_73">[73]</a>Bernice White, ed., <b>Who&rsquo;s Who for South Dakota</b> (Pierre, 1956), p. 103; <b>South
-Dakota Legislative Manual, 1931</b> (Pierre: State Publishing Company, 1931), p. 455.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_74" href="#fr_74">[74]</a>Edmund B. Rogers, comp., <b>History of Legislation Relating to the National Park
-System Through the 82d Congress: Badlands National Monument South Dakota</b>
-(1958), S. 3541, 67th Cong., 2d Sess.; <b>Congressional Record</b>, 67th Cong., 2d Sess.,
-62: 6173.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_75" href="#fr_75">[75]</a><b>Ibid.</b></div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_76" href="#fr_76">[76]</a><b>Congressional Record</b>, 67th Cong., 2d Sess., 62:6233; Rogers, <b>op. cit.</b>, H.R. 11514,
-67th Cong., 2d Sess.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_77" href="#fr_77">[77]</a>Rogers, <b>op. cit.</b>, Executive Order of Warren G. Harding, October 23, 1922.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_78" href="#fr_78">[78]</a>Letter, Commissioner, General Land Office, to Senator Norbeck, August 28, 1923,
-PNC, p. 11.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_79" href="#fr_79">[79]</a><b>Congressional Record</b>, 67th Cong., 4th Sess., 64:5573.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_80" href="#fr_80">[80]</a><b>Congressional Record</b>, 68th Cong., 1st Sess., 65:215; Rogers, <b>op. cit.</b>, H.R. 2810,
-68th Cong., 1st Sess., S. 3541, 67th Cong., 2d Sess.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_81" href="#fr_81">[81]</a>Letters, Senator Norbeck from Attorney General B.S. Payne, January 11, 1922,
-Prof. W.C. Toepelman, May 17, 1922, and W.H. Tompkins, U.S. Land Office, May
-26, 1922, PNC, pp. 1, 3-7.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_82" href="#fr_82">[82]</a>Letter, Senator Norbeck to Vice President H.E. Beebe, Bank of Ipswich (S.D.),
-May 5, 1924, PNC, p. 15.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_83" href="#fr_83">[83]</a>Interview, M. Emma Quevli, Interior, S.D., by John W. Stockert, February 6, 1968.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_84" href="#fr_84">[84]</a>Letter, Senator Norbeck to J.W. Parmley, Ipswich, S.D., November 7, 1927,
-PNC, p. 32.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_85" href="#fr_85">[85]</a><b>Ibid.</b></div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_86" href="#fr_86">[86]</a>P.D. Peterson, <b>Through the Black Hills and Bad Lands of South Dakota</b> (Pierre,
-S.D.: J. Fred Olander Company, 1929), p. 23.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_87" href="#fr_87">[87]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, pp. 23-33.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_88" href="#fr_88">[88]</a>Letter, James M. Palmer, Secretary, Wonderland Hiway Association, to Senator
-Norbeck, October 22, 1927, PNC, p. 20.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_89" href="#fr_89">[89]</a>Letter, Senator Norbeck to Parmley, November 7, 1927, PNC, p. 32.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_90" href="#fr_90">[90]</a><b>Ibid.</b></div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_91" href="#fr_91">[91]</a><b>Ibid.</b></div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_92" href="#fr_92">[92]</a>Letter, Senator Norbeck to Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work, November
-2, 1927, PNC, p. 31.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_93" href="#fr_93">[93]</a>Letter, Senator Norbeck to Representative Williamson, April 10, 1928, PNC, p. 49.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_94" href="#fr_94">[94]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, pp. 49, 50.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_95" href="#fr_95">[95]</a>Rogers, <b>op. cit.</b>, S. 4385, Calendar No. 1280, 70th Cong., 1st Sess.; H.R. 13618, 70th
-Cong., 1st Sess.; <b>Congressional Record</b>, 70th Cong., 1st Sess., 69:8046.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_96" href="#fr_96">[96]</a><b>Congressional Record</b>, 70th Cong., 1st Sess., 69:9224; Rogers, <b>op. cit.</b>, Senate Report
-No. 1246, Calendar No. 1280, 70th Cong., 1st Sess.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_97" href="#fr_97">[97]</a><b>Congressional Record</b>, 70th Cong., 1st Sess., 69:9589.</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_74">74</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_98" href="#fr_98">[98]</a>Robert S. Yard, &ldquo;National Parks Situation Critical,&rdquo; National Parks Association,
-November 7, 1928, PNC, p. 129.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_99" href="#fr_99">[99]</a>Letter, Senator Norbeck to Yard, December 3, 1928, PNC, pp. 126, 127.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_100" href="#fr_100">[100]</a>Letter, NPS Acting Director A.E. Demaray to Senator Norbeck, December 1, 1928,
-PNC, p. 122.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_101" href="#fr_101">[101]</a><b>Congressional Record</b>, 70th Cong., 1st Sess., 69:10007; 2d Sess., 70:3807.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_102" href="#fr_102">[102]</a>Rogers, <b>op. cit.</b>, House of Representatives Report No. 2607, 70th Cong., 2d Sess.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_103" href="#fr_103">[103]</a>Memorandum, NPS Director Arno B. Cammerer to Secretary of the Interior,
-July 6, 1938.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_104" href="#fr_104">[104]</a>Rogers, <b>op. cit.</b>, House of Representatives Report No. 2607, 70th Cong., 2d Sess.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_105" href="#fr_105">[105]</a><b>Congressional Record</b>, 70th Cong., 2d Sess., 70:4302, 4303.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_106" href="#fr_106">[106]</a><b>Congressional Record</b>, 70th Cong., 2d Sess., 70:4404.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_107" href="#fr_107">[107]</a><b>Congressional Record</b>, 70th Cong., 2d Sess., 70:5015, 5089; Rogers, <b>op. cit.</b>, House
-of Representatives Report No. 2808, 70th Cong., 2d Sess.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_108" href="#fr_108">[108]</a><b>Ibid.</b></div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_109" href="#fr_109">[109]</a><b>Congressional Record</b>, 70th Cong., 2d Sess., 70:5225.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_110" href="#fr_110">[110]</a>Memorandum, NPS Director Cammerer to the Secretary of the Interior, July
-6, 1938; Hillory A. Tolson, <b>Laws Relating to the National Park Service, the
-National Parks and Monuments</b> (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office,
-1933), pp. 302-305.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_111" href="#fr_111">[111]</a><b>Congressional Record</b>, 70th Cong., 2d Sess., 70:3198, 3812; Rogers, <b>op. cit.</b>, S. 5779,
-70th Cong., 2d Sess.; Senate Report No. 1842, Calendar No. 1869, 70th Cong.,
-2d Sess.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_112" href="#fr_112">[112]</a><b>Congressional Record</b>, 70th Cong., 2d Sess., 70:3490; Rogers, <b>op. cit.</b>, H.R. 17102,
-70th Cong., 2d Sess.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_113" href="#fr_113">[113]</a>Interview, Ted E. Hustead, Wall, S. D., by Ray H. Mattison, June 2, 1965; &ldquo;Bad
-Lands Becomes National Monument,&rdquo; <b>The Rapid City Daily Journal</b>, January
-28, 1939.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_114" href="#fr_114">[114]</a>Memorandum, NPS Regional Director Howard Baker to the NPS Director, June
-6, 1956 (includes copy of &ldquo;Proposal of Name for an Unnamed Domestic Feature,&rdquo;
-Board of Geographic Names).</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_115" href="#fr_115">[115]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, Weldon W. Gratton, &ldquo;History of the Operator&rsquo;s Development at the Pinnacles
-Area Badlands National Monument&rdquo; (NPS Region Two, Land and Recreation
-Planning Division, September 23, 1948; Information from E.N. (Curley)
-and Ilo Nelson (Cedar Pass Lodge concessioner, 1964-____), February 9, 1968.</div>
-<div class="fncont">Note: Not only were Norbeck and Millard linked together by their common
-interest in the Badlands, but also through the marriage of Mr. Norbeck&rsquo;s
-daughter to Mrs. Clara (Millard) Jennings&rsquo; son (information from Nelsons,
-February 9, 1968).</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_116" href="#fr_116">[116]</a>Memorandum, G.A. Moskey, Chief Counsel, NPS, to NPS Regional Director,
-Region Two, May 20, 1941; Receipt signed by B.H. Millard and S.N. Millard dated
-October 24, 1946; Superintendent&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for March 1955.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_117" href="#fr_117">[117]</a>Program, &ldquo;Millard Ridge Dedication,&rdquo; Badlands National Monument, Interior,
-South Dakota, June 28, 1957.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_118" href="#fr_118">[118]</a>Information from E.N. (Curley) and Ilo Nelson, February 9, 1968; Gratton, <b>op. cit.</b>;
-Superintendent&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for October 1950.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_119" href="#fr_119">[119]</a>Schell, <b>op. cit.</b>, p. 277.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_120" href="#fr_120">[120]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, p. 282.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_121" href="#fr_121">[121]</a>Memorandum, NPS Director Cammerer to the Secretary of the Interior, November
-28, 1934.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_122" href="#fr_122">[122]</a><b>Ibid.</b></div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_123" href="#fr_123">[123]</a>Rogers, <b>op. cit.</b>, Executive Order of Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 21, 1934.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_124" href="#fr_124">[124]</a>Letter, Fred Bess, FERA, to Tilford E. Dudley, The Land Program, FERA, January
-1, 1935; Lewis Meriam, <b>Relief and Social Security</b> (Washington: The Brookings
-Institution, 1946), p. 283.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_125" href="#fr_125">[125]</a>Final Report on the &ldquo;Badlands National Monument Extension, South Dakota&mdash;R-1,&rdquo;
-Third District Office, Branch of Planning, NPS, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,
-submitted April 2, 1935, cover letter and pp. 30-45, 79; Letter, NPS Assistant
-Director Wirth to Sixth Regional Officer, NPS, August 1, 1935.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_126" href="#fr_126">[126]</a>Letter, T.A. Walters, Acting Secretary of the Interior, to Harry L. Hopkins,
-Administrator, FERA, April 15, 1935.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_127" href="#fr_127">[127]</a><b>Ibid.</b></div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_128" href="#fr_128">[128]</a><b>Ibid.</b>; Letter, Director J.S. Lansill, The Land Program, to T.E. Dudley, The Land
-Program, FERA, April 17, 1935.</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_75">75</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_129" href="#fr_129">[129]</a>Meriam, <b>op. cit.</b>, pp. 286, 287.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_130" href="#fr_130">[130]</a>Letter, Senator Norbeck to NPS Assistant Director Wirth, February 13, 1935.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_131" href="#fr_131">[131]</a><b>Ibid.</b></div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_132" href="#fr_132">[132]</a>Letter, Senator Norbeck to Herbert Evison, NPS Acting Assistant Director
-March 8, 1935.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_133" href="#fr_133">[133]</a>Letter, Mrs. Eva Stevens Roberts, Imlay, S.D., to NPS Assistant Director Wirth,
-September 2, 1935.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_134" href="#fr_134">[134]</a>Letter, George Gibbs, Regional Officer, Region VI, NPS, to M.C. Huppuch, Recreational
-Demonstration Projects, September 18, 1935.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_135" href="#fr_135">[135]</a>Letter, Senator Norbeck to R.G. Tugwell, Administrator, Resettlement Administration,
-November 25, 1935.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_136" href="#fr_136">[136]</a>Thomas A. Sullivan, <b>Laws Relating to the National Park Service, Supp. I</b> (Washington:
-U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944), p. 149.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_137" href="#fr_137">[137]</a>Various correspondence pertaining to the establishment of Badlands National
-Monument.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_138" href="#fr_138">[138]</a>Letter, Governor Tom Berry to Secretary of the Interior Ickes, February 26, 1935;
-Letter, NPS Superintendent Harry J. Liek to C. Irvin Krumm, Executive Manager,
-Greater South Dakota Association, November 20, 1953.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_139" href="#fr_139">[139]</a>Letter, D.K. Parrott, Acting Assistant Commissioner, General Land Office, to
-Senator Case, June 11, 1937; Memorandum, Neal A. Butterfield, NPS, to Mr.
-Thompson, February 13, 1937, &ldquo;Badlands National Monument Extension, South
-Dakota&mdash;R-1,&rdquo; <b>op. cit.</b>, p. 113.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_140" href="#fr_140">[140]</a>L.U. Foreman, Final Report (1938-1939) on &ldquo;Badlands Tunnel Engineering,&rdquo;
-Federal Works Agency, Public Roads Administration; Custodian&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative
-Report for June 1940.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_141" href="#fr_141">[141]</a>Memorandum, NPS Director Cammerer to the Secretary of the Interior, July
-6, 1938; &ldquo;Badlands National Monument Extension, South Dakota&mdash;R-1,&rdquo; <b>op. cit.</b>,
-pp. 116, 117; Letter, Senator Norbeck to NPS Director Cammerer, July 30, 1935.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_142" href="#fr_142">[142]</a>Memorandum, Antoinette Funk, Assistant Commissioner, General Land Office,
-to the NPS, November 8, 1938; <b>Grazing History, Badlands National Monument</b>
-(September 1963), p. 88.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_143" href="#fr_143">[143]</a>Memorandum, NPS Director Cammerer to the Secretary of the Interior, July
-6, 1938.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_144" href="#fr_144">[144]</a>Thomas A. Sullivan, <b>Proclamations and Orders Relating to the National Park
-Service up to January 1, 1945</b> (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office,
-1947), pp. 118-120.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_145" href="#fr_145">[145]</a>Memorandum, U.S. Department of the Interior for the Press, February 4, 1939.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_146" href="#fr_146">[146]</a>Letter, F. Hopkins, Acting Chief, SCS, to NPS Director Newton B. Drury,
-December 27, 1941.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_147" href="#fr_147">[147]</a>Project Manager&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for January 1937.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_148" href="#fr_148">[148]</a>Project Manager&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for April 1937.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_149" href="#fr_149">[149]</a>Howard W. Baker, NPS Resident Landscape Architect, &ldquo;Report to the Deputy
-Chief Architect on Development of Proposed Badlands National Monument,
-November 13 and 14, 1935,&rdquo; December 30, 1935; &ldquo;Badlands National Monument
-Extension, South Dakota&mdash;R-1,&rdquo; <b>op. cit.</b>, cover letter and p. 15; &ldquo;Badlands Tunnel
-Engineering,&rdquo; <b>op. cit.</b>; Summary of Activities at Badlands National Monument,
-Fiscal Year 1940 (included in Superintendent&rsquo;s Fiscal Annual Narrative Report
-File).</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_150" href="#fr_150">[150]</a>Summary of Activities at Badlands National Monument, Fiscal Year 1940; Custodian&rsquo;s
-Monthly Narrative Report for June 1940.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_151" href="#fr_151">[151]</a><b>Ibid.</b></div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_152" href="#fr_152">[152]</a>Memorandum, Superintendent Liek to the NPS Director, August 11, 1939; Custodian&rsquo;s
-Monthly Narrative Report for February 1940.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_153" href="#fr_153">[153]</a>Custodian&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for July 1940; Summary of Activities at
-Badlands National Monument, Fiscal Years 1941, 1942.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_154" href="#fr_154">[154]</a>Memorandum, Superintendent Howard B. Stricklin to the NPS Regional Director,
-Midwest Region, March 17, 1965.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_155" href="#fr_155">[155]</a>Baker, <b>op. cit.</b>, p. 4; Memorandum, NPS Associate Director Demaray to NPS
-Regional Director, Region II, November 4, 1939; &ldquo;Badlands National Monument
-Extension, South Dakota&mdash;R-1,&rdquo; <b>op. cit.</b>, p. 64.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_156" href="#fr_156">[156]</a>Memorandum, Chief, Project Development Division, NPS, to the files, December
-20, 1939; Memorandum, NPS Acting Regional Director Paul V. Brown to Regional
-Attorney Taylor, February 23, 1940.</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_76">76</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_157" href="#fr_157">[157]</a>Custodian&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for April 1940.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_158" href="#fr_158">[158]</a>Custodian&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for May 1941; Summary of Activities at
-Badlands National Monument, Fiscal Year 1940; Memorandum, NPS Chief Counsel
-Moskey to the NPS Regional Director, Region II, May 20, 1941.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_159" href="#fr_159">[159]</a>Memorandum, NPS Regional Director Baker to the NPS Director, June 6, 1956;
-Weldon W. Gratton, <b>op. cit.</b>; Information from E.N. (Curley) and Ilo Nelson,
-Cedar Pass Lodge, February 9, 1968.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_160" href="#fr_160">[160]</a>Custodian&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for February 1940.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_161" href="#fr_161">[161]</a>Memorandum, NPS Acting Regional Director Brown to Regional Attorney Taylor,
-February 23, 1940.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_162" href="#fr_162">[162]</a>Custodian&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Reports for April 1940, November 1940, September
-1941, and April 1943.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_163" href="#fr_163">[163]</a>Superintendent&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Reports for January 1965 and April 1967;
-1958 date deduced from various government memorandums 1956-1958.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_164" href="#fr_164">[164]</a>Summary of Activities at Badlands National Monument, Fiscal Year 1942.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_165" href="#fr_165">[165]</a>Custodian&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for July 1940.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_166" href="#fr_166">[166]</a>Custodian&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for March 1940.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_167" href="#fr_167">[167]</a>Custodian&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for November 1941.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_168" href="#fr_168">[168]</a>Letter, NPS Acting Director Demaray to Representative Case, May 21, 1941.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_169" href="#fr_169">[169]</a>Custodian&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for September 1941.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_170" href="#fr_170">[170]</a>Custodian&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for March 1942.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_171" href="#fr_171">[171]</a><b>Ibid.</b></div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_172" href="#fr_172">[172]</a>Custodian&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for May 1942.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_173" href="#fr_173">[173]</a>Custodian&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for December 1942.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_174" href="#fr_174">[174]</a>Custodian&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for May 1942.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_175" href="#fr_175">[175]</a>Custodian&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for March 1943.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_176" href="#fr_176">[176]</a>Custodian&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for June 1943.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_177" href="#fr_177">[177]</a>Custodian&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Reports and Annual Fiscal Reports for the war
-years, <b>passim</b>.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_178" href="#fr_178">[178]</a>Custodian&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for November 1943.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_179" href="#fr_179">[179]</a>Summary of Activities at Badlands National Monument, Fiscal Year 1942; Coordinating
-Superintendent&rsquo;s Annual Narrative Report for Fiscal Year 1947.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_180" href="#fr_180">[180]</a>Superintendent&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for January 1953.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_181" href="#fr_181">[181]</a>Custodian&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for January 1948.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_182" href="#fr_182">[182]</a>Superintendent&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for September 1952.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_183" href="#fr_183">[183]</a>Purchase Order, Superintendent, Badlands National Monument, to Golden West
-Telephone Coop., Inc., October 17, 1960; Special Use Permit BADL 61-1, July
-20, 1961.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_184" href="#fr_184">[184]</a>Coordinating Superintendent&rsquo;s Annual Report, Fiscal Year 1947.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_185" href="#fr_185">[185]</a>Custodian&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Reports for May through September 1948; Fiscal
-Annual Reports 1947 and 1949.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_186" href="#fr_186">[186]</a>Superintendent&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for October 1951; NPS Report 1a1,
-Annual Report of Officials in Charge of Field Areas and the Regional Directors,
-June 1, 1952.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_187" href="#fr_187">[187]</a>Receipt, signed by B.H. Millard and S.N. Millard, October 24, 1946; Badlands
-National Monument Land Records.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_188" href="#fr_188">[188]</a>NPS Report 1a1, Annual Report of Officials in Charge of Field Areas and the
-Regional Directors, May 11, 1951.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_189" href="#fr_189">[189]</a>Superintendent&rsquo;s Annual Fiscal Narrative Report, June 8, 1960; Superintendent&rsquo;s
-Monthly Narrative Report for November 1950.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_190" href="#fr_190">[190]</a><b>Grazing History</b>, <b>op. cit.</b>, pp. 2, 3.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_191" href="#fr_191">[191]</a>Memorandum, Superintendent Stricklin to the NPS Regional Director, Midwest
-Region, March 17, 1965.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_192" href="#fr_192">[192]</a><b>Ibid.</b></div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_193" href="#fr_193">[193]</a>Information from Chief Park Ranger Byron A. Hazeltine, Badlands National
-Monument, November 1967.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_194" href="#fr_194">[194]</a>Custodian&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for March 1943.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_195" href="#fr_195">[195]</a>Custodian&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for February 1946.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_196" href="#fr_196">[196]</a>Custodian&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for November 1946.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_197" href="#fr_197">[197]</a>Memorandum, Lawrence C. Merriam, NPS Regional Director, Region Two to
-the NPS Director, December 6, 1946; Letter, Secretary of the Interior J.A. Krug
-to the President of the United States, May 21, 1949.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_198" href="#fr_198">[198]</a><b>Ibid.</b></div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_77">77</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_199" href="#fr_199">[199]</a>Memorandum, NPS Associate Regional Director, Region Two to Superintendent,
-Wind Cave National Park, August 31, 1949.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_200" href="#fr_200">[200]</a>Krug to the President, May 21, 1949.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_201" href="#fr_201">[201]</a>Rogers, <b>op. cit.</b>, Senate Report No. 1064, Calendar No. 1005, 82d Cong., 2d Sess.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_202" href="#fr_202">[202]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, Bills and Reports named in the text by number.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_203" href="#fr_203">[203]</a><b>Grazing History</b>, <b>op. cit.</b>; Badlands National Monument map file.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_204" href="#fr_204">[204]</a>Telegram, Ben Chief, Pine Ridge Indian Agency, to Senator Mundt, February
-8, 1952; Resolution of the Executive Committee of the Tribal Council of the
-Oglala Sioux Tribe, February 8, 1952.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_205" href="#fr_205">[205]</a>Rogers, <b>op. cit.</b>; Hillory A. Tolson, comp., <b>Laws Relating to the National Park
-Service, Supp. II.</b> (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963), pp. 387, 388.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_206" href="#fr_206">[206]</a><b>Ibid.</b></div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_207" href="#fr_207">[207]</a>Memorandum, Department of the Interior to the Press, February 4, 1939; <b>Grazing
-History</b>, <b>op. cit.</b>, p. 88.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_208" href="#fr_208">[208]</a>Letter, Congressman Berry to NPS Director Wirth, July 9, 1952; Resolution of the
-Cane Creek Cooperative Grazing District, Walter Kruse, President, n.d.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_209" href="#fr_209">[209]</a>Letter, Senator Case to NPS Director Wirth, July 16, 1952.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_210" href="#fr_210">[210]</a>Letter, NPS Regional Director Baker to the NPS Director, January 16, 1953.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_211" href="#fr_211">[211]</a>Letter, NPS Acting Director Tolson to Congressman Berry, July 2, 1952.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_212" href="#fr_212">[212]</a>Statement, &ldquo;Boundary Revisions, Badlands National Monument, South Dakota,&rdquo;
-NPS, July 1952.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_213" href="#fr_213">[213]</a><b>Ibid.</b></div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_214" href="#fr_214">[214]</a><b>Federal Register</b>, October 10, 1952, pp. 9051, 9052.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_215" href="#fr_215">[215]</a>Letter, General Superintendent Liek, to C. Irvin Krumm, Executive Manager,
-Greater South Dakota Association, November 20, 1953.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_216" href="#fr_216">[216]</a>Memorandum, NPS Assistant Regional Director John S. McLaughlin to the NPS
-Director, April 14, 1953.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_217" href="#fr_217">[217]</a>Letter, General Superintendent Liek to C. Irvin Krumm, November 20, 1953.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_218" href="#fr_218">[218]</a><b>Ibid.</b>; Memorandum, Superintendent John A. Rutter to NPS Regional Director,
-Region Two, October 14, 1955.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_219" href="#fr_219">[219]</a>Land Status Map, Drawing No. NM-BL-2036-C-2, January 15, 1953.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_220" href="#fr_220">[220]</a>Memorandum, NPS Director Wirth to NPS Regional Director, Region Two,
-December 5, 1952.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_221" href="#fr_221">[221]</a>Theodore E. White, <b>Report of the Paleontological Survey of Certain Peripheral
-Areas of the Badlands National Monument South Dakota</b> (River Basin Surveys,
-Smithsonian Institution, June 1953).</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_222" href="#fr_222">[222]</a>Paul L. Beaubein, <b>Preliminary Report of Archeological Reconnaissance, Badlands
-National Monument, 1953</b>, November 3, 1953, p. 3.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_223" href="#fr_223">[223]</a>F.W. Albertson, <b>Report of Study of Grassland Areas of Badlands National Monument,
-South Dakota...</b>, September 26, 1953.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_224" href="#fr_224">[224]</a>Resolution (No. 7615), Frank W. Mitchell, Secretary, State Highway Commission,
-November 17, 1953; Letters: F.W. Mitchell to Senator Case, November 24, 1953;
-F. Web Hill, Chairman, Conservation Committee, Rapid City Chapter Izaak
-Walton League of America, to NPS Director Wirth, November 4, 1953; Leonel M.
-Jensen, Game, Fish and Parks Commissioner, to Dr. G.W. Mills, March 18, 1954;
-Dr. G.W. Mills, President, Black Hills and Badlands Association to NPS Director
-Wirth, December 2, 1953; Memorandum, General Superintendent Liek to NPS
-Regional Director, Region Two, November 4, 1953.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_225" href="#fr_225">[225]</a>Resolutions: Board of Directors, White River Cooperative Grazing District,
-November 24, 1953; W.M. Rasmussen, Executive Secretary, South Dakota Stockgrowers
-Association, December 11, 1953; Memorandum, Superintendent Rutter to
-NPS Regional Director, April 28, 1954.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_226" href="#fr_226">[226]</a>Memorandum, NPS Director Wirth to NPS Regional Director, Region Two, April
-5, 1954.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_227" href="#fr_227">[227]</a><b>Ibid.</b></div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_228" href="#fr_228">[228]</a>Adolph Murie, &ldquo;Wildlife Values in Badlands National Monument,&rdquo; 1954, pp. 16, 17.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_229" href="#fr_229">[229]</a>James D. Rump, &ldquo;A Geological and Paleontological Appraisal of the Badlands
-National Monument,&rdquo; September 15, 1954, p. 1.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_230" href="#fr_230">[230]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, pp. 3, 4.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_231" href="#fr_231">[231]</a>Memorandum, NPS Acting Regional Director McLaughlin to the NPS Director,
-April 20, 1955; Resolutions: Clark Chamber of Commerce, J.W. Lockhart, Secretary,
-December 16, 1953; Black Hills and Badlands Association, G.W. Mills, President,
-December 2, 1953.</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_78">78</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_232" href="#fr_232">[232]</a>Development Outline, Badlands National Monument (1947), February 28, 1947,
-p. 14; Tract map of Badlands National Monument, South Dakota R-1, Dates:
-January 21, 1936, September 1936, and June 30, 1939; Memorandums: NPS Regional
-Director Baker to the NPS Director, October 28, 1952; NPS Acting Regional
-Director McLaughlin to the NPS Director, April 20, 1955.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_233" href="#fr_233">[233]</a>Murie, <b>op. cit.</b>, p. 7.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_234" href="#fr_234">[234]</a>Minutes of Open Meeting Concerning Badlands Boundary Revisions, Wall, South
-Dakota, April 12, 1956; Memorandum, NPS Regional Director Baker to the NPS
-Director, April 17, 1956.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_235" href="#fr_235">[235]</a><b>Federal Register</b>, March 29, 1957, pp. 2052, 2053; Minutes of Open Meeting Concerning
-Badlands Boundary Revisions, Wall, South Dakota, April 12, 1956;
-Badlands National Monument Land Ownership Record, Deed 182, April 1958.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_236" href="#fr_236">[236]</a>Information from Badlands National Monument files, December 1967.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_237" href="#fr_237">[237]</a>Letter, Joy J. Deuser, Chief, Regional Land Management Division, SCS, to NPS
-Regional Director Baker, December 10, 1953.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_238" href="#fr_238">[238]</a><b>Grazing History</b>, <b>op. cit.</b>, Appendix p. 30.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_239" href="#fr_239">[239]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, pp. 6-9.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_240" href="#fr_240">[240]</a>&ldquo;Summary of <b>Mission 66</b> Objectives and Program for Badlands National Monument,&rdquo;
-NPS Region Two, Omaha, Nebraska, April 6, 1956; Superintendent&rsquo;s
-Annual Reports, Fiscal Years, 1956-1961.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_241" href="#fr_241">[241]</a>Badlands National Monument Land Ownership Record, Deed No. 178, August
-25, 1955.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_242" href="#fr_242">[242]</a>Superintendent&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for May 1959.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_243" href="#fr_243">[243]</a>Superintendent&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for November 1960.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_244" href="#fr_244">[244]</a>Badlands National Monument Museum Accession Book.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_245" href="#fr_245">[245]</a><b>Ibid.</b>; Letter, Harold Martin, Museum of Geology to John J. Palmer, November
-21, 1960.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_246" href="#fr_246">[246]</a>Superintendent&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for June 1958.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_247" href="#fr_247">[247]</a>Superintendent&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Reports prior to 1959; Information from
-Elloween M. Saunders, Secretary, Badlands National Monument, February 9, 1968.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_248" href="#fr_248">[248]</a>Superintendent&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for September 1959.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_249" href="#fr_249">[249]</a><b>Ibid.</b>; Superintendent&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for August 1959.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_250" href="#fr_250">[250]</a>Superintendent&rsquo;s Annual Narrative Reports, Fiscal Years 1962, 1963.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_251" href="#fr_251">[251]</a><b>Ibid.</b></div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_252" href="#fr_252">[252]</a><b>Grazing History</b>, <b>op. cit.</b>, pp. 13, 14.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_253" href="#fr_253">[253]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, p. 15.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_254" href="#fr_254">[254]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, pp. 15-19: Superintendent&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for November 1961.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_255" href="#fr_255">[255]</a><b>Grazing History</b>, <b>op. cit.</b>, p. 19.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_256" href="#fr_256">[256]</a>Information from Chief Park Ranger Hazeltine, February 9, 1968.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_257" href="#fr_257">[257]</a><b>Grazing History</b>, <b>op. cit.</b>, pp. 16-20.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_258" href="#fr_258">[258]</a><b>Ibid.</b>, p. 19.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_259" href="#fr_259">[259]</a>Knoles, <b>op. cit.</b>, p. 5.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_260" href="#fr_260">[260]</a>&ldquo;Badlands National Monument Extension, South Dakota&mdash;R-1,&rdquo; <b>op. cit.</b>, p. 5.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_261" href="#fr_261">[261]</a>Memorandums, NPS Regional Director Baker to the NPS Director, October 28,
-1952, and January 16, 1953.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_262" href="#fr_262">[262]</a>Murie, <b>op. cit.</b>, p. 17.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_263" href="#fr_263">[263]</a><b>Ibid.</b></div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_264" href="#fr_264">[264]</a>Badlands National Monument Annual Wildlife Census Reports, 1943-1946; Superintendent&rsquo;s
-Monthly Narrative Report for May 1959.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_265" href="#fr_265">[265]</a>&ldquo;Long Range Wildlife and Range Management Plan, Badlands National Monument
-for Period 1965-1969,&rdquo; p. 6.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_266" href="#fr_266">[266]</a><b>Ibid.</b>; &ldquo;Badlands Wildlife Restoration Plan,&rdquo; September 9, 1965; Superintendent&rsquo;s
-Monthly Narrative Reports for November 1963 and October 1964; Information
-from Chief Park Ranger Hazeltine, February 10, 1968.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_267" href="#fr_267">[267]</a>Information from Chief Park Ranger Hazeltine, February 10, 1968.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_268" href="#fr_268">[268]</a>Knoles, <b>op. cit.</b>, p. 20: &ldquo;Badlands Wildlife Restoration Plan,&rdquo; <b>op. cit.</b></div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_269" href="#fr_269">[269]</a>&ldquo;Badlands Wildlife Restoration Plan,&rdquo; <b>op. cit.</b></div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_270" href="#fr_270">[270]</a>Superintendent&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Reports for January and February 1964.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_271" href="#fr_271">[271]</a>Information from Chief Park Ranger Hazeltine, November 1967.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_272" href="#fr_272">[272]</a>Superintendent&rsquo;s Monthly Narrative Report for February 1964.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_273" href="#fr_273">[273]</a>Badlands Monthly Public Use Reports, 1939-1967: &ldquo;Bad Lands Becomes National
-Monument,&rdquo; <b>The Rapid City Daily Journal</b>, January 28, 1939.</div>
-<div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_274" href="#fr_274">[274]</a>Hillory A. Tolson, comp., <b>National Park Service Officials</b>, U.S. Department of
-the Interior, NPS, January 1, 1964, p. 41.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="pb" id="Page_79">79</div>
-<h2 id="c13"><span class="small">APPENDIX E</span></h2>
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