Creating the National Park Service
Subtitle: the missing years
By: by Horace M. Albright and Marian Albright Schenck ; foreword by Robert M. Utley.
Contributors: Schenck, Marian Albright, 1921-
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Albright, Horace M. 1890-1987.; United States. National Park Service -- History.; United States. National Park Service -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
Description: Two men played a crucial role in the creation and early history of the National Park Service: Stephen T. Mather, a public relations genius of sweeping vision, and Horace M. Albright, an able lawyer and administrator who helped transform that vision into reality.

In Creating the National Park Service, Albright and his daughter, Marian Albright Schenck, reveal the previously untold story of the critical "missing years" in the history of the service. During this period, 1917 and 1918, Mather's problems with manic depression were kept hidden from public view, and Albright, his able and devoted assistant, served as acting director and assumed Mather's responsibilities.

Rich in detail and insight, with sharply drawn personalities and engaging anecdotes, this authoritative behind-the-scenes history sheds light on the early days of the most popular of all federal agencies while painting a vivid picture of American life in the early twentieth century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]) and index.