The History of Badlands National Monument and the White River (Big) Badlands of South DakotaMattison, Ray H.
History
The History of Badlands National Monument and the White River (Big) Badlands of South Dakota
Mattison, Ray H.
Badlands National Park (S.D.) -- History
[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.
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