MOUNT RAINIER Wonderland An Administrative History of Mount Rainier National Park

Cover

Asahel Curtis photograph of Rainier Park Company President Henry Rhodes (front), Mount Rainier National Park Superintendent O.A. Tomlinson (middle), and National Park Service Director Stephen Mather (right), against a backdrop of Mount Rainier, 1928. (Photo courtesy of the Washington State Historical Society, Tacoma, Washington)

Introduction

I. Historical Overview of Indians and Mount Rainier

II. American Settlement and Mount Rainier

III. Establishment of Mount Rainier National Park

IV. The New Pleasuring Ground

V. Rudiments of Administration

VI. Natural Resource Protection in the Early Years

VII. Mission and Professionalism

VIII. The Park Under Construction

IX. The Rainier National Park Company

X. Visitor Use in the Depression Era

XI. The Impact of the New Deal

XII. Research and Interpretation in the 1930s

XIII. National Park Values in Wartime

XIV. The Problem of Winter Use

XV. The Problem of the Park Concession

XVI. Mission 66 for Mount Rainier

XVII. Natural Resource Protection Marginalized

XVIII. Administrative Development

XIX. Zoning the Park

XX. The Change in Resource Management

XXI. An Overview of Park Science

XXII. New Partnerships

Conclusion

Select Bibliography

Index (omitted from online edition)

A. Key Personnel

B. Visitation

C. Legislation