Grand Teton [Wyoming] National ParkUnited States. Department of the Interior
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Grand Teton [Wyoming] National Park
United States. Department of the Interior
Grand Teton National Park (Wyo.)
The authorized official guide for mountain-climbing trips in Grand Teton
National Park is Paul Petzoldt. He maintains summer headquarters at
Jenny Lake, and charges $8 a day, a person, for his services. Climbers
may provide their own food or have their meals at $2 each at a timber
line camp. Blankets and eiderdown sleeping bags may be rented for $2.
PHOTOGRAPHS
The Crandall Studios maintain up-to-date picture shops at Jenny Lake and
Moran. Photographs of the Teton Mountains and the surrounding country in
all sizes and styles, as well as hand-painted enlargements, paintings,
moving pictures, and souvenir postcards, are on sale. Laboratories in
the park are maintained for developing, printing, and enlarging
photographs.
This booklet is issued once a year, and the rates mentioned herein may
have changed slightly since issuance, but the latest rates approved by
the Secretary of the Interior are on file with the superintendent and
the park operators.
MOTOR TRANSPORTATION
Regular bus service is maintained between Yellowstone and Moran Wyo.;
also from Moran to Victor, Idaho, via Grand Teton National Park. Inquire
at any concentration point about rates and schedules.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
GENERAL
ALBRIGHT, HORACE M., and TAYLOR, FRANK J. Oh, Ranger! A book about the
national parks. Illustrated.
BURT, STRUTHERS. Diary of a Dude Wrangler. Charles Scribner's Sons,
1924. 331 pages.
FRYXELL, FRITIOF. The Grand Tetons, Our National Park of Matterhorns.
American Forests and Forest Life, National Parks Number (August 1929).
Pages 453-456.
WISTER, OWEN. The Virginian. Macmillan Co., 1902. 506 pages. (The
setting for portions of this famous novel is taken from the
Teton-Jackson Hole region.)
YARD, ROBERT STERLING. The Book of our National Parks. Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1928. Illustrated. The Tetons on pages 227-228.
HISTORICAL
ALTER, J. CECIL. James Bridger. Shepard Book Co., Salt Lake City, 1925.
CHITTENDEN, BRIG. GEN. HIRAM MARTIN. The Yellowstone National Park.
Stanford University Press, 1933 (fourth edition). Illustrated. 286
pages. The standard history of the Yellowstone region. History of the
American Fur Trade of the Far West. 3 volumes. New York, 1902.
COUTANT, C. G. History of Wyoming. Volume 1. Laramie, Wyo., 1899. 712
pages. (This volume, the only one issued, contains scattered references
to the region.)
DALE, HARRISON C. The Ashley-Smith Explorations. Arthur H. Clark Co.,
Cleveland, 1918.
FRYXELL, FRITIOF. The Story of Deadman's Bar. Annals of Wyoming, volume
5 (June 1929). Pages 128-148.
IRVING, WASHINGTON:
Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains.
New York, 1836. (This classic work contains the earliest known use
of the name "Tetons.")
Adventures of Captain Bonneville. New York, 1837. (An important
early work containing many references to the region.)
JACKSON, WILLIAM H.:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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