Whitman Mission
Administrative History

Endnotes



Introduction


1. Interview with Bill Gulick, Walla Walla, Washington, 17 November 1986.

2. Ibid.


Chapter One: Brief Description of the Whitman Mission National Historic Site


1. U. S., Congress, House, An Act to Provide for the Establishment of the Whitman National Monument, Pub. L. 840, 74th Cong., 2d sess., 1936, H. R. 7736, p. 1.


Chapter Two: Events Leading to the Establishment of the Whitman Mission National Historic Site


1. William H. Gray to the Honorable Secretaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 10 June 1880, William H. Gray Papers, Box 2, File "G2-22," Northwest and Whitman College Archives, Library of Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington (hereafter cited Whitman College)

2. Gray to Editor of the Daily Oregon, no date, Gray Papers, Box 3, File "G6-7," Whitman College.

3. Rev. Myron Eells, D.D., Marcus Whitman Pathfinder and Patriot (Seattle: The Alice Harriman Co., 1909), p. 295.

4. Oregon Pioneer and Historical Society form letter, 1887, Gray Papers, Box 2, File "G2-50," Whitman College.

5. "Address to the People of Oregon," News Release, 1874, Whitman Collection, File "W-13-A1 No. 8," Whitman College.

6. Walla Walla Daily Statesman, 14 September 1880, Whitman Collection, File "W-13-A1 No. 5," Whitman College.

7. Ibid.

8. I. H. Hopkins to Gray, 23 September 1880, Gray Papers, Box 2, File "G2-37," Whitman College.

9. Gray to C. S. Pringle, 4 May 1882, Gray Papers, Box 2, File "G2-30," Whitman College.

10. Statesman, 14 September 1880.

11. Ibid.

12. Walla Walla Union, no date, Whitman Collection, File "W-13-A1 No. 13," Whitman College.

13. Gray to Secretaries of ABCFM, 10 June 1880.

14. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 18 October 1964, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1963 - 1966," Whitman Mission National Historic Site, Walla Walla, Washington. (hereafter cited WHMI)

15. Gray to Editor of the Oregon State Journal, 11 January 1882, Gray Papers, Box 2, File "G2-28.5," Whitman College.

16. Portland Oregonian, 1 December 1897, Whitman Collection, File "W-13-A1 No. 6," Whitman College.

17. Gray's tombstone, located at the Whitman Mission National Historic Site, cites his death in 1889; Clifford M. Drury cites his death on February 16, 1893; while the Whitman Mission Chronology cites his death in 1881. Clifford M. Drury, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and the Opening of Old Oregon, 2 vols. (California: Arthur Clark Co., 1973; reprint ed., Seattle: Pacific Northwest National Parks and Forests Association, 1986), p. 342; Chronology Whitman Mission National Historic Site, Walla Walla, Washington.

18. The Oregonian cites $400.00; Austin Rice and Edwin Eells cite $800.00 including interest; and the Whitman Mission Chronology cites $800.00. Oregonian, 1 December 1897; Austin Rice and Edwin Eells, "Whitman Monument Statement Regarding Deficiency and Paying For It," Letter, 1907, Whitman Collection, File "W-13-A No. 24," Whitman College; Chronology Whitman Mission.

19. Walla Walla Union, 17 April 1882, quoted in Oregon Pioneer and Historical Society, Proceedings of Annual Meeting, 11 May 1882.

20. The [San Francisco] Occident, 4 November 1897, Archives, File "D66, Whitman Memorial Association 1897," WHMI.

21. Rice and Eells, "Statement Regarding Deficiency," 1907.

22. The Occident, 4 November 1897.

23. Portland Oregonian, 1 December 1897.

24. The Occident, 4 November 1897.

25. Marvin M. Richardson, The Whitman Mission, The Third Station on the Old Oregon Trail (Walla Walla: Whitman Publishing Co., 1940), pp. 144 - 145. The Occident reports that Swegle donated five acres and sold 2 1/2 acres at $30.00 per acre; the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin reports that he sold 7.63 acres for $1.00. The Occident, 4 November 1897; Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 18 October 1964.

26. "Agreement Between Whitman Memorial Association and Niles Vinson Marble Works," 20 August 1897, Walla Walla, Washington, Whitman Collection, File "W-13-A4 No. 18," Whitman College.

27. Ibid.

28. Walla Walla Union, 3 November 1897, Whitman Collection, File "W-13-A5 No. 3," Whitman College.

29. Rice and Eells, "Statement Regarding Deficiency," 1907. This document maintains that the shaft and grave marker cost $2,250.00 rather than the $2,100.00 recorded in the 1897 agreement. Further, it states that $1,150.00 was collected, leaving $1,100.00 still unpaid by 1907.

30. Ibid.

31. Ibid.

32. The Washington State Legislature passed a law establishing the Whitman Park Commission which was authorized to purchase the mission and monument property when the Legislature provided the funds. Apparently funds were never available. Washington, Legislature, house, An Act to provide for the acquirement, management and control by the State of Washington, of grounds surrounding and including what was the Whitman Mission, and where now stands the Whitman Monument, and authorizing the appointment of a commission, 7th sess., 1901, H. B. 412, pp. 346 - 348.

33. Marvin M. Richardson cites the founding of the church in 1907 although the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin quotes a woman who claims to have been married in the church in 1902. Also, H. B. 412, dated 1901, refers to the Whitman-Eells Memorial Church. Richardson, The Whitman Mission, p. 144; Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 8 February 1974; Washington, Legislature, H. B. 412.

34. Draft of Dedication Speech, 1964, File "A8215, Dedication of Visitor Center June 6, 1964," WHMI; Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 8 February 1974.

35. Whitman College, Minutes of Meetings of Board of Trustees, Meeting of 30 January 1914.

36. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 18 October 1964.

37. Ibid.

38. Ibid.

39. Walla Walla Daily Bulletin, 4 February 1926, Kiwanis Club Records, Kiwanis Club, Walla Walla, Washington.

40. Telephone interview with Howard Kaseberg, Walla Walla, Washington, 20 November 1986.

41. "Dedication of Whitman National Monument," Program, 27 September 1947, Whitman Collection, File "W-12-C No. 7," Whitman College.

42. Whitman Centennial, Incorporated, "A Brief Requesting Assistance in the Restoration of the Grounds and Reconstruction of the Buildings of the Waiilatpu Mission on the Centenary of its Founding 1836 - 1936," 1936, p. 27., Whitman Centennial Collection, Box 1, Whitman College.

43. C. W. Howard, Kiwanis Secretary to Herbert West, 5 October 1939, Whitman Centennial Collection, Box 1, red notebook, Whitman College.

44. Whitman Centennial, Inc. "A Brief," p. 23.

45. Ibid.

46. Ibid.

47. Whitman Centennial, Inc., Minutes of Meetings, Meeting of 24 September 1935, Whitman Centennial Collection, Box 1, black notebook, Whitman College.

48. Harlan D. Unrau and G. Frank Williss, "Administrative History: Expansion of the National Park Service in the 1930s," 1983, p. 194.

49. Whitman Centennial, Inc., Minutes of Meetings, Meeting of 17 June 1935, Whitman Centennial Collection, Box 1, black notebook, Whitman College.

50. "Whitman Centennial Association Prospectus Regarding Purchase of Property," Memorandum, Whitman Centennial Collection, Box 4, File "No. 16 Option for the Purchase of Property," Whitman College.

51. Olaf T. Hagen, "Report on the Preliminary Investigation of the proposed Whitman National Monument," Memorandum, 1936, p. 3., Archives, File "A26, Report on the Preliminary Investigation of the Proposed Whitman National Monument," WHMI.

52. U. S., Congress, Senate, Committee on Public Lands and Surveys, Whitman National Monument, S. Rept. 1937 to Accompany H. R. 7736, 74th Cong., 2d sess., 1936.

53. U. S., Congress, House Committee of Conference, Conference Report on H. R. 7736, Whitman National Monument, H. R. Rept. 2928 to Accompany H. R. 7736, 74th Cong., 2d sess., 1936.

54. Walla Walla Union, January 1937, Whitman Centennial Collection, Box 1, black notebook, Whitman College.

55. Hagen, "Report on Whitman National Monument," p. 16. The "Whitman Legend" or "Whitman Myth" refers to the belief that Marcus Whitman "saved" Oregon from English possession. See chapter six.

56. Marvin M. Richardson to Herbert West, 29 January 1937, Whitman Centennial Collection, Box 1, red notebook, Whitman College.

57. John Ise, Our National Park Policy: A Critical History (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1961), p. 35.

58. Charles B. Hosmer, Jr., Preservation Comes of Age: From Williamsburg to the National Trust, 1926 - 1949, p. 532 - 48, quoted in Unrau and Williss, "Administrative History," p. 173.

59. Emergency Conservation Work Organization Handbook, quoted in Unrau and Williss, "Administrative History," p. 174.

60. Barry Mackintosh, The National Parks: Shaping the System (Washington, D. C., National Park Service, 1985), p. 43.

61. Arthur E. Demaray, Acting Director to Herbert West, 15 December 1936, Whitman Centennial Collection, Box 1, red notebook, Whitman College.

62. Russell C. Ewing, "Report on Field Investigation of Whitman Mission Site, Walla Walla County, Washington," Memorandum, 1937, p. 2., Archives, File "A26, Report on Field Investigation of Whitman Mission Site," WHMI.

63. Ibid.

64. Walla Walla Bulletin, 10 March 1937, Whitman Centennial Collection, unmarked newspaper clippings box, Whitman College.

65. Regional Historian Ewing to Director, 17 February 1937, Archives, File "A26, Correspondence 1936 - 1939," WHMI.

66. Spalding to West, 7 April 1937, Archives, File "A26, Correspondence 1936 - 1939," WHMI.

67. West to Richardson, 7 November 1938, Whitman Centennial Collection, Box 1, File "Perpetual Trust Whitman Mission," Whitman College.

68. George A. Moskey, Chief Counsel, National Park Service to Herbert West, 8 December 1939, Whitman Centennial Collection, Box 1, File "Perpetual Trust Whitman Mission," Whitman College.

69. Richardson, The Whitman Mission, pp. 147 - 148.

70. Donald F. Lee, Acting Chief Counsel, National Park Service to Herbert West, 11 August 1939, Archives, File "A26, Correspondence 1936 - 1939," WHMI.

71. A. J. Knox, Acting Chief Counsel, National Park Service to Herbert West, 10 February 1940, Whitman Centennial Collection, Box 1, red notebook, Whitman College.

72. "Dedication of Whitman National Monument," Program, 27 September 1947.


Chapter Three: Amendatory Legislation Since 1936


1. U. S., Congress, House, An Act to Provide for the Establishment of the Whitman National Monument, Pub. L. 840, 74th Cong., 2d sess., 1936, H. R. 7736, p. 1.

2. Asst. Regional Director to Director Wirth, 29 January 1951, Archives, File "L1425, Private Holdings 1951 - 1957," WHMI. (hereafter, unless noted otherwise, 'Regional Director' refers to Regional Director, Region Four)

3. Acting Superintendent, Mt. Rainier to Regional Director, 14 November 1951, Archives, File "D18, Letters Referring to Development of Whitman National Monument 1951;" Regional Director, Region Four to Director, 6 August 1952, Archives, File "A30, Complaints 1948 - 1953;" and Superintendent, Whitman National Monument to Superintendent, Mt. Rainier, 17 August 1952, Archives, File "A30, Complaints 1948 - 1953," WHMI. (hereafter cited Superintendent WMN and Superintendent MR)

4. Superintendent, WNM to Superintendent MR, 13 September 1952, Archives, File "A30, Complaints 1948 - 1953," WHMI.

5. Acting Superintendent, MR to Regional Director, 17 September 1952, Archives, File "A30, Complaints 1948 - 1953," WHMI.

6. Regional Director to Superintendent MR, 20 April 1953, Archives, File "A30, Complaints 1948 - 1953," WHMI.

7. Superintendent MR to Regional Director, 6 May 1953, Archives, File "A30, Complaints 1948 - 1953," WHMI.

8. Superintendent WNM to Superintendent MR, 2 August 1953, Archives, File "L1425, Private Holdings 1951 - 1957," WHMI.

9. Elvind T. Scoyen, Associate Director, National Park Service to Herbert West, 14 March 1956, Archives, File "L1425, Private Holdings 1950 - 1956," WHMI.

10. Senator Magnuson to Director, National Park Service, 13 April 1956, Archives, File "L1425, Private Holdings 1950 - 1956," WHMI.

11. Washington, Walla Walla County, Marcus Whitman Foundation, Articles of Incorporation of Marcus Whitman Foundation Inc., 27 January 1950, Marcus Whitman Foundation Papers, Box 1 File "Legal Documents, By-Laws, Resolutions, Articles of Incorporation," Whitman College.

12. Regional Director to Director, 23 April 1956, Archives, File "L1425, Private Holdings 1950 - 1956," WHMI.

13. U. S., Congress, House, A Bill to Facilitate the Administration and Development of the Whitman National Monument, H. R. 11867, 84th Cong., 2d sess., 1956, p. 1.

14. U. S., Congress, Senate, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Acquisition of Additional Land for Whitman National Monument, S. Rept. 822 to Accompany S. 1118, 85th Cong., 1st sess., 1957, p. 2. "Mission 66" refers to the Service-wide development program instituted in 1956. See Chapter 4.

15. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 6 August 1957, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1951 - 1962," WHMI.

16. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 5 February 1958, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1951 - 1962," WHMI.

17. Cameron Sherwood to Honorable Gracie Pfost, 10 March 1958, Marcus Whitman Foundation Papers, Box 2, File "Correspondence General," Whitman College.

18. Joel E. Ferris to Honorable Clair Engle, Chairman, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, 12 March 1958, Marcus WHitman Foundation Papers, Box 2, File "Correspondence General," Whitman College.

19. "Superintendent's Monthly Narrative," March 1958, Archives, File "A2615, Whitman Mission Monthly and Annual Reports, Vol. 1, 1941 - 1962," WHMI. (hereafter cited "SMN" and "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962,")

20. U. S., Congress, House, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Acquisition of Additional Land for Whitman National Monument, Wash., H. R. Rept. 1577 to Accompany S. 1118, 85th Cong., 2d sess., 1958, pp. 2 - 3.

21. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, no date, Marcus Whitman Foundation Papers, Box 2, File "Correspondence General," Whitman College.


Chapter Four: Administration


1. Interview with Thomas R. Garth, Los Gatos, California, 2 February 1987.

2. Ibid.

3. Ibid.

4. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, no date, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1941 - 1953," WHMI.

5. Alice Clarissa Whitman, the Whitmans' only daughter, drowned in the Walla Walla River at the age of two. The exact location of her grave is still unknown today.

6. Custodian Garth to Herbert West, 13 June 1942, Archives, File "A26, The War Years 1942 - 1946," WHMI.

7. Regional Director to Superintendent MR, 2 March 1949, Archives, File "H3015, Archeology 1948 - 1949," WHMI. These excavations were sponsored by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Washington State Historical Society as part of the Columbia River Basin Survey program. Thomas R. Garth, "Archeological Investigations at Ft. Walla Walla, 1951, Archives, File "H3015, Archeology Ft. Walla Walla," WHMI.

8. Garth, Interview.

9. Unrau and Williss, "Administrative History," p. 76.

10. "Annual Report of the Director of the National Park Service," 1941, quoted in Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior 1941, P. 306, quoted in Unrau and Williss, "Administrative History," p. 105.

11. Herbert West to Ronald F. Lee, Director, Historic Sites Dvsn, National Park Service, 9 January 1940, Archives, File "D22, W. P. A. Project 1940 - 1941," WHMI.

12. Ronald F. Lee to Herbert West, 23 January 1940, Archives, File "D22, W. P. A. Project 1940 - 1941," WHMI.

13. Arno B. Cammerer, Director, National Park Service to Herbert West, 23 February 1940, Archives, File "D22, W. P. A. Project 1940 - 1941," WHMI.

14. Inspector Primm to Regional Director, 24 February 1940, Archives, File "D22, W. P. A. Project 1940 - 1941," WHMI.

15. Associate Engineer to Regional Director, 20 March 1940, Archives, File "A26, Correspondence 1940," WHMI.

16. Regional Supervisor Historic Sites to Regional Director, 15 August 1940, Archives, File "D22, W. P. A. Project 1940 - 1941," WHMI.

17. Garth, Interview.

18. Ibid.

19. James W. Morrison, District Director of Operations, W. P. A. to C. W. Carlson, Assistant Superintendent MR, 18 June 1941, Archives, File "D22, W. P. A. The Whitman Project 1941," WHMI.

20. C. E. Drysdale, Associate Engineer, "Field Engineering Comments for Preliminary Master Plan, Whitman National Monument," Memorandum, 16 September 1939, Archives, File "D18, Master Plan Proposals 1939, 1942, 1945," WHMI.

21. Supervisor Historic Sites to Regional Director, 27 January 1940, Archives, File "A26, Correspondence 1940," WHMI.

22. "Whitman National Monument Annual Report for the Year Ending June 30, 1941," Memorandum, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

23. Regional Landscape Architect to Regional Director, 3 September 1940, Archives, File "A26, Correspondence 1940," WHMI.

24. Regional Landscape Architect to Superintendent MR, 4 September 1941, Archives, File "D22, W. P. A. The Whitman Project 1941," WHMI.

25. Superintendent MR to Regional Director, 30 September 1941, Archives, File "D22, W. P. A. The Whitman Project 1941," WHMI.

26. Ibid.

27. The Regional personnel included Assistant Regional Director, B. F. Manbey; Regional Supervisor of Historic Sites, Olaf T. Hagen; Mr. Davidson; Landscape Architect, Region Five, Merle Sager; and Mr. Hohl. Hagen to Regional Director, 28 November 1941, Archives, File "D22, W. P. A. The Whitman Project 1941," WHMI.

28. The Regional personnel included Custodian Garth; Landscape Architect Mattson; Regional Engineer, Samuel Cutler; Park Naturalist, Howard R. Stagner; Regional Supervisor of Historic Sites, Olaf T. Hagen; and Senior Archeologist, Jessee L. Nusbaum. Superintendent MR to Regional Director, 16 December 1941, Archives, File "D22, W. P. A. the Whitman Project 1941," WHMI.

29. Ibid.

30. Regional Historian to Regional Director, 9 January 1947, Archives, File "D22, Development 1941 - 1969," WHMI.

31. Ibid.

32. Superintendent MR to Regional Director, 24 January 1947, Archives, File "D22, Development 1947," WHMI.

33. Regional Director to Superintendent MR, 31 January 1947, Archives, File "D22, Development 1947," WHMI.

34. Acting Custodian WNM to Regional Director, 4 February 1947, Archives, File "D22, Development 1947," WHMI.

35. Neasham's handwritten note on memorandum from Superintendent MR to Regional Director, 11 February 1947, Central Classified Files 1930 - 1953, Box 352, File "630 Whitman National Monument," Federal Records Center, San Bruno, California.

36. Custodian WNM to Superintendent MR, 2 April 1941, Archives, File "D22, W. P. A. The Whitman Project 1941," WHMI.

37. Superintendent MR to Custodian WNM, 5 April 1941, Archives, File "D22, W. P. A. The Whitman Project 1941," WHMI.

38. Regional Supervisor of Historic Sites to Regional Director, 2 June 1941, Archives, File "D22, W. P. A. The Whitman Project 1941," WHMI.

39. Custodian WNM to Regional Historian, 10 June 1941, Archives, File "D22, W. P. A. The Whitman Project 1941," WHMI.

40. Ibid.

41. Custodian WNM to Regional Historian, 10 June 1941, Archives, File "D22, W. P. A. The Whitman Project 1941," WHMI.

42. "Annual Report for Whitman National Monument," Memorandum, 31 May 1951, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

43. Ibid.

44. Weldon to Robert Amdor, Superintendent WHMI, 24 March 1981, Archives, File "H1419, Robert C Amdor 1981," WHMI.

45. Robert Weldon, "A Short History of the Whitman National Monument," Memorandum, 1955, Archives, File "H22, A Short History of WNM by Robert Weldon," WHMI.

46. Weldon to Amdor, 24 March 1981, Archives, File "H1419, Robert C. Amdor 1981," WHMI.

47. "SMN," November 1950, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

48. Superintendent to Ranger-Historian, 20 June 1953, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

49. Weldon to Garth, 2 August 1950, Archives, File "H3015, Archeology 1950 - 1953," WHMI.

50. Weldon to Amdor, 24 March 1981, Archives, File "H1419, Robert C. Amdor 1981," WHMI.

51. "SMN," March 1951, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

52. Weldon to Amdor, 24 March 1981, Archives, File "H1419, Robert C. Amdor 1981," WHMI.

53. "SMN," May 1954, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

54. Regional Chief of Planning to Regional Director, 7 October 1941, Archives, File "D22, W. P. A. The Whitman Project 1941," WHMI; and Chief Historian to Director, 4 October 1950, Archives, File "D6215, Planning Preparation, Maintenance and Preservation of Museum Exhibits 1955 - 1961," WHMI.

55. Weldon to Amdor, 24 March 1981, Archives, File "H1419, Robert C. Amdor 1981," WHMI.

56. Superintendent to Ranger-Historian, 20 June 1953, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

57. "SMN," July 1954, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

58. See chapter five for discussion of this display.

59. "SMN," May 1952, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

60. "WNM Annual Report," Memorandum, 1955, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

61. Weldon to Amdor, 24 March 1981, File "H1419, Robert C. Amdor 1981," WHMI.

62. Weldon to Garth, 22 March 1952, Archives, File "H3015, Archeology 1950 - 1953," WHMI.

63. Superintendent WNM to Superintendent MR, 4 May 1952, Archives, File "D22, Development 1941 - 1969," WHMI.

64. Assistant Regional Director to Superintendent MR, 6 August 1952, Archives, File "A30, Complaints 1948 - 1953," WHMI.

65. Weldon to Amdor, 24 March 1981, Archives, File "H1419, Robert C. Amdor 1981," WHMI.

66. "SMN," October 1955, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

67. Interview with Erwin N. Thompson, Walla Walla, Washington, 29 August 1987.

68. "SMN," May 1953, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

69. "SAR," Fiscal Year 1957, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

70. William J. Kennedy to Superintendent Amdor, 16 July 1981, Archives, File "H1419, William J. Kennedy to Robert C. Amdor 1981," WHMI.

71. Superintendent WNM to Superintendent MR, 26 June 1956, Archives, File "L1425, Private Holdings 1950 - 1956," WHMI.

72. Acting Regional Chief of Operations, Region Four to Superintendent WNM, 29 March 1957, Archives, File "L1425, Holdings (Private) 1951 - 1957," WHMI.

73. Assistant Director to Regional Director, 14 May 1957, Archives, File "L1417, Boundary Adjustments 1956 - 1961," WHMI.

74. Ibid.

75. Regional Director to Director, 30 June 1958, Archives, File "L1425, Holdings (Private) 1958," WHMI.

76. Assistant Director to Regional Director, 28 July 1958, Archives, File "L1425, Holdings (Private) 1958," WHMI.

77. "SMN," August 1959, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

78. Superintendent WNM to Assistant U. S. Attorney, 21 January 1960, Archives, File "L1425, Holdings (Private) 1960," WHMI.

79. Superintendent WNM to Regional Director, 10 May 1960, Archives, File "L1425, Holdings (Private) 1960," WHMI.

80. Ibid.

81. Director to Director, 20 July 1960, Archives, File "L1425, Holdings (Private) 1960," WHMI.

82. Chief of Lands to Assistant Solicitor, 24 August 1960, Archives, File "L1425, Holdings (Private) 1960," WHMI.

83. Regional Chief of Lands to Mr. George A. Finney, President, Dean-McLean Abstract Co., 28 October 1960, Archives, File "L1425, Holdings (Private) 1960," WHMI.

84. Regional Director to Director, 23 April 1956, Archives, File "L1425, Private Holdings 1950 - 1956," WHMI.

85. B. Loyal Smith, County Engineer to Superintendent MR, 10 April 1956, Archives, File "D3015, Monument Approach Road and Bridge 1962," WHMI.

86. Acting Superintendent MR to Regional Director, 11 June 1956, Archives, File "L1425, Private Holdings 1950 - 1956," WHMI.

87. Regional Landscape Architect to Regional Director, 10 September 1956, Archives, File "D22, Development 1941 - 1969," WHMI.

88. Russell C. Ewing, "Report on Field Investigation of Whitman Mission Site, Walla Walla County, Washington," Memorandum, 1937, Archives, File "A26, Report on Field Investigation of Whitman Mission Site," WHMI.

89. Director to Regional Director, 26 June 1957, Archives, File "D3015, Monument Approach Road and Bridge 1962," WHMI.

90. Washington, Walla Walla County Commissioners, Agreement, 28 August 1961, Archives, File "D3015, Monument Approach Road and Bridge 1962," WHMI.

91. Thompson, Interview.

92. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 14 August 1961, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1951 - 1962," WHMI.

93. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 15 August 1961, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1951 - 1962," WHMI.

94. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 20 February 1962, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1951 - 1962," WHMI.

95. "SMN," May 1963, Archives, File "A2615, SMN 1963 - 1964," WHMI.

96. "SMN," May 1962, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

97. "SMN," October 1962, Archives, File, "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

98. "SMN," June 1963, Archives, File "A2615, SMN 1963 - 1964," WHMI.

99. "SMN," May 1963, Archives, File "2615, SMN 1963 - 1964," WHMI.

100. Barry Mackintosh, The National Parks: Shaping the System (Washington, D. C., 1985), p. 42.

101. John Ise, Our National Park Policy: A Critical History (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1961), P. 547.

102. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 16 January 1961, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1951 - 1962," WHMI.

103. Chief, Western Office, Dvn. Design and Construction to Regional Director, 9 May 1958, Archives, File "D18, Planning Programs and Master Plans 1956 - 1962," WHMI.

102. Superintendent WNM to Chief, Western Office, Dvn. Design and Construction, 13 May 1958, Archives, File "D18, Planning Programs and Master Plans 1956 - 1962," WHMI.

105. Ibid.

106. Superintendent Whitman Mission to Director, 8 January 1963, Archives, File "H1419, William J. Kennedy 1964," WHMI.

107. Chief, Design and Construction to Chief, Western Office, Dvn. Design and Construction, 19 December 1958, Archives, File "D18, Planning Programs and Master Plans 1956 - 1962," WHMI.

108. "SMN," July 1961, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

109. "SMN," July 1962, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

110. "SMN," January 1963, Archives, File "A2615, SMN 1963 - 1964," WHMI.

111. "SMN," September, 1963, Archives, File "A2615, SMN 1963 - 1964," WHMI.

112. "SMN," May 1963, Archives, File "A2615, SMN 1963 - 1964," WHMI.

113. "SAR," 1961, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

114. "SMN," May 1963, Archives, File "A2615, SMN 1963 - 1964," WHMI.

115. "SMN," April 1964, Archives, File "A2615, SMN 1963 - 1964," WHMI.

116. "SMN," September 1963, Archives, File "A2615, SMN 1963 - 1964," WHMI.

117. "SMN , " 1963 - October 1963; "SMN," November 1963, Archives, File "A2615 SMN 1964," WHMI.

118. "SMN," October 1963, Archives, File "A2615, SMN 1963 - 1964," WHMI.

119. Thompson, Interview.

120. Ibid.

121. Ibid.

122. Kennedy to Amdor, 16 July 1981, Archives, File "H1419, William J. Kennedy to Robert C. Amdor 1981," WHMI.

123. Ibid.

124. Seattle Times, 21 August 1966, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1963 - 1966," WHMI.

125. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 21 February 1965, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1963 - 1966," WHMI.

126. James B. Myers, "Whitman Mission Historic Site Management Appraisal Report," Memorandum, 21 May 1965, p. 2., Archives, File "A5425, Regional Offices' Inspections, Appraisals, Investigations, and Surveys 1940 - 1978," WHMI.

127. "Annual Training Report," Memorandum, 28 May 1966, Archives, File "SMN 1965 - 1966," WHMI.

128. Interview with Larry Dodd, Walla Walla, Washington, 22 September 1987.

129. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 19 January 1965, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1963 - 1966," WHMI.

130. Superintendent to All Employees, Whitman Mission, 30 January 1968, Archives, File "A6419, Goals/Objectives 1963 - 1984," WHMI.

131. Myers, "Appraisal Report," p. 11; John Jensen, "Master Plan Whitman Mission National Historic Site," November 1964, revised July 1965, Archives, File "D18, Master Plan and Planning Programs 1963 - 1964," WHMI.

132. "SMN," July 1965, Archives, File "A2615, SMN 1965 - 1966," WHMI.

133. Dodd, interview.

134. Superintendent to All Employees, Whitman Mission, 30 January 1968, Archives, File "A6419, Goals/Objectives 1963 - 1984," WHMI.

135. Ibid.

136. Jensen, "Master Plan," chapter 3, section 2, p. 6.

137. Ibid.

138. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 28 April 1968, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1967 - 1969," WHMI.

139. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 13 June, 1968, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings, 1967 - 1969," WHMI.

140. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 31 January 1971, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1970 - 1973," WHMI.

141. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 29 March 1970, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1970 - 1973," WHMI.

142. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 26 March 1970, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1970 - 1973," WHMI.

143. Jensen, "Master Plan," chapter 3, section 1, p. 3.

144. Myers, "Appraisal Report," p. 10.

145. "SMN," March 1966, Archives, File "A2615, SMN 1965 - 1966," WHMI.

146. "SMN," July 1966, Archives, File "A2615, SMN 1965 - 1966," WHMI.

147. "Whitman Mission National Historic Site Management Objectives," 19 February 1971, Memorandum, Archives, File "A6419, Goals/Objectives 1963 - 1984," WHMI.

148. Jensen, "Master Plan," chapter 3, section 1, p. 16.

149. "Whitman Mission National Historic Site Management Objectives," 19 February 1971, Memorandum, Archives, File "A6419, Goals/Objectives 1963 - 1984," WHMI.

150. Dodd, interview.

151. Interview with Stanley C. Kowalkowski during Employee Reunion, Walla Walla, Washington, August 1986.

152. Superintendent Whitman Mission to Regional Director, 9 October 1978, Archives, File "A6419, Goals/Objectives 1963 - 1984," WHMI.

153. The Franklin County Times, 19 August 1971, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1970 - 1973," WHMI.

154. Interview with Stanley C. Kowalkowski, Walla Walla, Washington, 2 December 1987.

155. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 12 July 1972, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1970 - 1973," WHMI.

156. Superintendent Whitman Mission to Charles Gebler, Regional Chief of Interpretation and Visitor Services, 5 October 1979, Archives, File "A2615, SAR 1976 - 1985," WHMI.

157. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 29 June 1975, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1974 - 1975," WHMI.

158. "SAR," 197, Archives, File "A2615, SAR 1972 - 1975," WHMI.

159. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 13 November 1973, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1970 - 1973," WHMI.

160. U. S., Congress, House, Joint Resolution American Indian Religious Freedom, Pub. L. 95-341, 95th Cong., 1978, H. J. Res. 738, p. 1.

161. "SAR," 1975, Archives, File "A2615, SAR 1972 - 1975," WHMI.

162. "SAR," 1977, Archives, File "A2615, SAR 1976 - 1985," WHMI.

163. Ibid.

164. "Maintenance Accomplishments for Fiscal Year 1978, Whitman Mission National Historic Site," Memorandum, Archives, File "A2615, SAR 1976 - 1985," WHMI.

165. Kowalkowski, interview.

166. Interview with Robert C. Amdor, Walla Walla, Washington , 19 November 1986.

167. Ibid.

168. Ibid.

169. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 1 December 1980, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1979 - 1981," WHMI.

170. Amdor, interview.

171. Ibid.

172. "SAN," 1981, Archives, File "A2615, SAR 1976 - 1985," WHMI.

173. "Development Study Package Proposal," Memorandum, 7 July 1983, Archives, File "1983 Whitman Mission Reading File," WHMI.

174. "SAN," 1983, Archives, File "A2615, SAR 1976 - 1985," WHMI.

175. Amdor, interview.

176. "SAN," 1983, Archives, File "A2615, SAR 1976 - 1985," WHMI.

177. "SAN," 1985, Archives, File "A2615, SAR 1976 - 1985," WHMI.

178. "SAN," 1984, Archives, File "A2615, SAR 1976 - 1985," WHMI.

179. Ibid.

180. Amdor, interview.

181. Superintendent Whitman Mission to David C. Barnes, Maintenance Mechanic, 22 March 1983, Archives, File "1983 Whitman Mission Reading File," WHMI.

182. A-76 Pilot Study team members to Regional Director, 8 August 1983, Archives, File "1983 Whitman Mission Reading File," WHMI.

183. Amdor, interview.

184. A-76 Pilot Study team members to Regional Director, 8 August 1983, Archives, File "1983 Whitman Mission Reading File," WHMI.

185. "SAN," 1983, Archives, File "A2615, SAR 1976 - 1985," WHMI.

186. "SAN," 1985, Archives, File "A2615, SAR 1976 - 1985," WHMI.

187. Amdor, interview.

188. Ibid.

189. Ibid.

190. "SAN," 1984, Archives, File "A2615, SAR 1976 - 1985," WHMI.

191. Ibid.

192. Superintendent Whitman Mission to Regional Director, 6 June 1984, Archives, File "1984 Whitman Mission Reading File," WHMI.

193. Amdor, interview.

194. Interview with David P. Herrera, Walla Walla, Washington, 23 November 1987.

195. Ibid.

196. Ibid.

197. Ibid.

198. Ibid.

199. Ibid.

200. U. S., Congress, House, An Act to Provide for the Establishment of the Whitman National Monument, Pub. L. 840, 74th Cong., 2d sess., 1936, H. R. 7736, p. 1.


Chapter Five: Resource Management


1. Robert C. Amdor, "Resource Management Plan and Environmental Assessment," 1986, p. 4, Archives, File "D18, Resource Management Plan 1986,' WHMI.

2. Regional Director or All Superintendents, Pacific Northwest Region, 9 March 1982, Archives, File "D18, Resource Management Plan 1982," WHMI.

3. Associate Research Technician to Regional Director, 14 December 1938, Archives, File "A26, Correspondence 1936 - 1939," WHMI.

4. Garth's reports compiled in "Whitman Mission Archeological Reports," Archives, File "H3015, Whitman Mission Archeological Reports, Garth and Schumacher 1941 - 1960," WHMI.

5. Thomas R. Garth, "The Mansion House, Gristmill, and Blacksmith Shop at the Whitman Mission, A Final Report," 1952, Archives, File "H3015, Archeology 1950 - 1953," WHMI.

6. Thomas R. Garth, "Excavations at Waiilatpu," Pacific Northwest Quarterly 40 (October 1949): 298.

7. Thomas R. Garth, "Waiilatpu After the Massacre," Pacific Northwest Quarterly 38 (October 1947): 318.

8. Associate Research Technician to Regional Director, 14 December 1938, Archives, File "A26, Correspondence 1936 - 1939," WHMI.

9. Acting Director, National Park Service to Regional Director, 30 July 1948, Archives, File "H3015, Archeology 1948 - 1949," WHMI.

10. Chief Historian to Regional Director, 3 June 1949, Archives, File "H3015, Archeology 1948 - 1949," WHMI.

11. Chief Historian to Regional Director, 15 January 1953, Archives, File "H3015, Archeology 1950 - 1953," WHMI.

12. William J. Kennedy, "Carry out archeological exploratory work. . . of blacksmith shop," Project Construction Program Proposal, 8 January 1959, Archives, File "H3015, Archeology 1960 - 1962," WHMI.

13. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 22 August 1954, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1951 - 1962," WHMI.

14. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 26 October 1960, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1951 - 1962," WHMI.

15. Paul J. F. Schumacher, "Archeological Field Notes, Whitman National Monument," Memorandum, Archives, File "H3015, Whitman Mission Archeological Reports, Garth and Schumacher 1941 - 1960," WHMI.

16. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 20 August 1961, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1951 - 1962," WHMI.

17. Erwin N. Thompson, "A Feasibility Study on Historic Reconstruction, Whitman Mission National Historic Site, Washington," 1973, p. 23. (Mimeographed.)

18. "Annual Report on Information and Interpretive Services," Memorandum, 1962, p. 3, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

19. William J. Kennedy, "Carry out archeological exploration to determine location of grave of Alice Clarissa Whitman," Project Construction Program Proposal, 8 January 1959, Archives, File "H3015, Archeology 1960 - 1962," WHMI.

20. Historian WNM to Superintendent WNM, 17 November 1958, Archives, File "H22, Cultural Resource Studies and Research 1958 - 1960," WHMI.

21. Regional Naturalist to Regional Director, 15 January 1953, Archives, File "D6215, Museum Exhibits 1941 - 1953," WHMI.

22. Historian WNM to Superintendent WNM, 17 November 1958, Archives, File "H22, Cultural Resource Studies and Research 1958 - 1960, WHMI.

23. Schumacher, "Archeological Field Notes," p. 6.

24. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 26 July 1961, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1951 - 1962," WHMI.

25. Paul J. F. Schumacher, "Location of Mission Cemetery at Whitman Mission National Historic Site," Resource Study Proposal, 14 April 1964, Archives, File "H3015, Archeology 1960 - 1962," WHMI.

26. Marcus Whitman Foundation, Inc., Minutes of Meetings of the Board of Trustees, Meeting of 25 April 1966, Marcus Whitman Foundation Papers, Box 1, File "Minutes of Meetings of Board of Trustees," Whitman College.

27. "SMN," August 1966, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962;" "Log of Significant Events and Important Contracts," Memorandum, 1967, Archives, File "A2615, SMN 1967 - 1968," WHMI.

28. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 1 May 1968, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1967 - 1969," WHMI.

29. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 5 January 1969, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1967 - 1969," WHMI.

30. Ibid.

31. Paul J. F. Schumacher to Ray Stickler, 17 December 1968, Archives, File "H22, Cultural Resource Studies and Research 1968," WHMI.

32. Handwritten note by Park Historian Robert Olsen, Jr. stated "Yes, but probably much closer to the Great Grave;" Ibid.

33. Amdor, "Resource Management Plan," 1982, p. 22.

34. Whitman Centennial, Inc., "A Brief," p. 33.

35. Hagen, "Report on Whitman National Monument," 1936; Ewing, "Report on Field Investigation," 1937.

36. Associate Research Technician to Regional Director, 20 November 1937, Archives, File "A26, Correspondence 1936 - 1939," WHMI.

37. Supervisor of Historic Sites to Regional Director, 3 August 1939, Archives, File "A26, Correspondence 1936 - 1939," WHMI.

38. "General Restoration Policy, National Park Service," Memorandum, 19 May 1937, Whitman Centennial Collection, Box 1, File "Whitman Monument," Whitman College.

39. Ibid.

40. Regional Historian to Regional Chief, Division of Interpretive and Visitor Services, 8 September 1965, Archives, File "H30, Historic Sites and Structures Management 1968 - 1973," WHMI.

41. Ibid.

42. Ibid.

43. Supervisor of Historic Sites to Herbert West, 5 December 1941, Central Classified Files 1930 - 1953, Box 348, File "Administration," Federal Records Center, San Bruno, California.

44. Regional Historian to Regional Chief, Division of Interpretive and Visitor Services, 8 September 1965, Archives, File "H30, Historic Sites and Structures Management 1968 - 1973," WHMI.

45. Superintendent MR to Regional Director, 30 September 1941, Archives, File "D22, W. P. A. The Whitman Project 1941," WHMI.

46. Superintendent MR to Regional Director, 16 December 1941, Archives, File "D22, W. P. A. The Whitman Project 1941," WHMI.

47. Regional Chief of Planning to Regional Director, 7 October 1941, Archives, File "D22, The Whitman Project 1941," WHMI.

48. Acting Regional Director to Superintendent MR, 13 July 1942, Archives, File "A26, The War Years and Rehiring of Garth 1942 - 1946," WHMI.

49. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 30 July 1946, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1941 - 1953," WHMI.

50. Superintendent MR to Regional Director, 31 March 1947, Archives, File "D22, Development 1947;" Chief Historian to Director, 4 April 1947, Archives, File "D22, Museum Exhibits 1941 - 1953," WHMI.

51. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, no date, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1941 - 1953," WHMI.

52. Regional Historian to Regional Chief, Division of Interpretive and Visitor Services, 8 September 1965, Archives, File "H30, Historic Sites and Structures Management 1968 - 1973," WHMI.

53. Mrs. P. R. Richardson to Mr. Sanford Hill, 20 July 1952, Archives, File "A30, Complaints 1948 - 1953," WHMI.

54. Mr. Sanford Hill to Mrs. P. R. Richardson, 25 July 1952, Archives, File "A30, Complaints 1948 - 1953," WHMI.

55. Regional Director to Superintendent WNM, 18 July 1958, Archives, File "H30, Historic Sites and Structures Management 1950 - 1960," WHMI.

56. Superintendent WNM to Regional Director, 30 July 1958, p. 1, Archives, File "H30, Historic Sites and Structures Management 1950 - 1960," WHMI.

57. Ibid., p. 2.

58. Ibid.

59. Ibid., p. 5.

60. Regional Director to Director, 22 August 1958, Archives, File "H30, Historic Sites and Structures Management 1950 - 1960," WHMI.

61. Acting Director to Regional Director, 18 February 1959, Archives, File "H30, Historic Sites and Structures Management 1950 - 1960," WHMI.

62. "Master Plan for the Preservation and Use of Whitman National Monument, " 1959, revised 1960, Vol. 1, chapter 1, p. 10, Archives, File "D18, Master Plan Narrative 1960 - 1962," WHMI.

63. William J. Kennedy, "Prospectus for Restoration of the Whitman Mission, Whitman National Monument, Walla Walla, Washington," Memorandum, October 1960, p. 2, Archives, File "H30, Historic Sites and Structures Management 1950 - 1960," WHMI.

64. "SMN," October 1960, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

65. "SMN," May 1961, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

66. "SMN," August 1963, Archives, File "A2615, SMN 1963 - 1964," WHMI.

67. Regional Director to Superintendent Whitman Mission, 4 March 1965, Archives, File "D18, Master Plans and Planning Programs 1963 - 1964," WHMI.

68. Roy E. Appleman, "Historic Structures Report on all the buildings originally existing at Whitman Mission during the time of Dr. Marcus Whitman," Historical Resource Study, 12 June 1970, Archives, File "H30, Historic Sites and Structures Management 1968 - 1973," WHMI.

69. Thompson, "Feasibility Study," p. 73.

70. Ibid., p. 72.

71. Thompson, interview.

72. Weldon to Amdor, 24 March 1981, Archives, File "H1419, Robert C. Amdor 1981," WHMI.

73. "SMN," November 1952, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

74. "SMN," June 1962, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

75. W. D. Church to Superintendent WNM, 27 October 1950, Archives, File "D66, Signs Markers and Memorials 1940 - 1955," WHMI.

76. Regional Director to Superintendent MR, 10 November 1950, Archives, File "D66, Signs Markers and Memorials 1940 - 1955," WHMI.

77. W. D. Church to Superintendent WNM, 6 November 1952, Archives, File "D66, Signs Markers and Memorials 1940 - 1955," WHMI.

78. Superintendent WNM to Superintendent MR, 10 October 1952, Archives, File "D66 Signs Markers and Memorials 1940 - 1955," WHMI.

79. Thompson, "Feasibility Study," p. 70.

80. "Assessment of Actions Having and Effect on Cultural Resources," Memorandum, Archives, File "D22, Rehabilitation of Great Grave," WHMI.

81. Amdor, "Resource Management Plan," 1984, p. 15.

82. Amdor, interview.

83. Norman R. Weiss to T. Allan Comp, 31 January 1983, Archives, File "D22, Rehabilitation of Great Grave," WHMI.

84. Ibid.

85. Regional Archeologist to Superintendent Whitman Mission, 18 November 1983, Archives, File "D22, Rehabilitation of Great Grave," WHMI.

86. Amdor, "Resource Management Plan," 1986, p. 17.

87. Ibid., p. 18.

88. Amdor, interview.

89. "SMN," November 1952, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

90. "SMN," June 1952, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

91. Superintendent WNM to Superintendent MR, 4 October 1952, Archives, File "A30, Complaints 1948 - 1953," WHMI.

92. Weldon to files, 26 September 1953, Archives, File "A30, Complaints 1948 - 1953," WHMI.

93. Assistant Director to Regional Director, 4 June 1952, Archives, File "D66, Signs Markers and Memorials 1940 - 1955," WHMI.

94. Amdor, "Resource Management Plan," 1982, p. 16.

95. Amdor, "Resource Management Plan," 1986, P. 15.

96. Amdor, interview.

97. Gary L. Langlitz to Robert Amdor, 2 October 1986, Archives, File "D22, Memorial Shaft," WHMI.

98. "SMN," April 1951; "SMN," May 1952, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

99. "SMN," September 1957, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

100. "SMN," May 1961, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

101. Superintendent WNM to Superintendent MR, 30 July 1950, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

102. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 30 March 1952, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1941 - 1953," WHMI.

103. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 15 November 1953, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1941 - 1953," WHMI.

104. Weldon to Jim Schick, 8 February 1953, Archives, File "K18, Interpretation 1950 - 1958," WHMI.

105. Historian to Superintendent, 19 May 1960, Archives, File "D18, Planning, Programs and Master Plans 1956 - 1962," WHMI.

106. "Narrative Statement, Construction of Roads, Trails, and Parking Area," Memorandum, Archives, File "D22, Roads Trails and Parking Area 1961," WHMI.

107. "SMN," August 1963, Archives, File "A2615, SMN 1963 - 1964," WHMI.

108. "Wayside Exhibit Plan," Memorandum, June 1976, Archives, File "D2615, Wayside Exhibit Plans 1964 - 1978," WHMI.

109. Superintendent WNM to Superintendent MR, 15 February 1956, Archives, File "H30, Historic Sites and Structures Management 1950 - 1960," WHMI.

110. Ibid.

111. Superintendent Whitman Mission to Regional Director, 31 May 1968, Archives, File "H30, Historic Sites and Structures Management 1968 - 1973," WHMI.

112. Ibid.

113. Ibid.

114. Holmes to Schumacher, 6 June 1968, Archives, File "H30, Historic Sites and Structures Management 1968 - 1973," WHMI.

115. Archeologist, Ruins Stabilization Unit to Regional Curator, 7 February 1969, Archives, File "H30, Historic Sites and Structures Management 1968 - 1973," WHMI.

116. Regional Curator to Superintendent Whitman Mission, 14 February 1969, Archives, File "H30, Historic Sites and Structures Management 1968 - 1973," WHMI.

117. Superintendent Whitman Mission to Regional Director, 18 February 1969, Archives, File "H30, Historic Sites and Structures Management 1968 - 1973," WHMI.

118. "Wayside Exhibit Plan," Memorandum, June 1976, Archives, File "D6215, Wayside Exhibit Plans 1964 - 1978," WHMI.

119. "Maintenance Accomplishments for Fiscal Year 1978, Whitman Mission National Historic Site," Memorandum, Archives, File "A2615, SAR 1976 - 1985," WHMI.

120. Regional Historian to Regional Director, 9 January 1947, Archives, File "D22, Development 1941 -1969," WHMI.

121. "SMN," May 1963, Archives, File "A2615, SMN 1963 - 1964," WHMI.

122. Schumacher, "Archeological Field Notes," p. 15.

123. Amdor, "Resource Management Plan," 1986, p. 21.

124. Ibid.

125. "SMN," October 1961, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

126. Amdor, "Resource Management Plan," 1986, p. 21.

127. "SMN," August 1961, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

128. Amdor, "Resource Management Plan," 1986, p. 19.

129. Amdor, "Resource Management Plan," 1984, p. 23.

130. "SAR," 1955, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

131. Superintendent WNM to Regional Director, 4 June 1959, History Files, File "III E (10) Stone Family Marker and History," WHMI.

132. Assistant Regional Director to Director, 26 January 1960, History Files, File "III E (10) Stone Family Marker and History," WHMI.

133. Ibid.

134. Amdor, "Resource Management Plan," 1985, p. 26.

135. Schumacher, "Archeological Field Notes," pp. 6 - 7.

136. "Grave Site Management Guide -- Draft," Memorandum, 9 June 1981, Central Files, File "D66, Signs Markers and Memorials," WHMI.

137. Thompson, interview.

138. Superintendent WNM to Regional Director, 16 January 1958; Superintendent WNM to Regional Director, 17 October 1960, Archives, File "D6215, Planning Preparation Maintenance and Preservation of Museum Exhibits 1955 - 1961," WHMI.

139. Ralph H. Lewis, Chief, Branch of Museums, Washington, D. C. to Superintendent Whitman Mission, 13 September 1961, Archives, File "D6215, Planning Preparation Maintenance and Preservation of Museum Exhibits 1955 - 1961," WHMI.

140. Diana Pardue, Kim Sikoryak, and Kent Bush, "Collections Management Plan, Whitman Mission National Historic Site," March 1984, p. 11. (Mimeographed.)

141. Superintendent Whitman Mission to Regional Curator, 12 January 1987, Central Files, File "D6215, Planning Preparation Maintenance and Preservation of Museum Exhibits 1986," WHMI.

142. Interview with Roger Trick, Walla Walla, Washington, 23 November 1987.

143. Amdor, "Resource Management Plan," 1982, pp. 41 - 43.

144. Robert C. Amdor, "Statement for Management," 1983, p. 16 quoted in Cathy Gilbert, "Landscape Study and Management Alternatives for Revegetation," 1984, p. 5. (Memeographed.)

145. Herrera, interview.

146. Ibid.


Chapter Six: The Interpretive Program


1. "Interpretive Statement, Whitman Master Plan," Memorandum, p. 1, Archives, File "K1817, Interpretive Statement 1941, 1947," WHMI.

2. Supervisor of Historic Sites to Regional Director, 28 March 1941, Archives, File "K1817, Interpretive Statement 1941, 1947," WHMI.

3. Shortly after Marcus Whitman's death, William H. Gray, Henry Spalding and others promulgated the idea that Whitman rode east in 1843 with the sole purpose to convince the President that Oregon should belong to the U. S.; that, in fact, Whitman "saved" Oregon from Britain. See Drury, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, Vol. II for a complete history of this controversy.

4. "Interpretive Statement, Whitman Mission National Monument," Memorandum, P. 2, Archives, File "K1817, Interpretive Statement 1941, 1947," WHMI.

5. "Whitman National Monument Monthly Report," April 1942, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

6. Regional Director by Acting Regional Director to Superintendent MR, 13 July 1942, Archives, File "A26, The War Years 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

7. Ibid.

8. "Whitman National Monument Monthly Report," December 1942, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

9. Thomas R. Garth, "Museum Prospectus and Exhibit Plan," 1943, pp. 8 - 25, Archives, File "D6215, Museum Prospectus by Garth 1943," WHMI. The exhibit plans included: "The Original Inhabitants were Indians," "The Newcomers," "When Fur was King," "Christianity Comes West," "West to Oregon," "Home Life on the Mission Frontier," "Indian School at the Mission," "Whitman Returns East," "First Wagon Train to Reach Oregon," "Waiilatpu and the Oregon Trail," "The Settlement of Oregon," "The Whitman Massacre," "A Century After."

10. Superintendent MR to Regional Director, 2 April 1943, Archives, File "D6215, Museum Exhibits 1941 - 1953," WHMI.

11. Garth, "Museum Prospectus," p. 2.

12. Superintendent MR to Custodian WNM, 11 August 1947, Archives, File "D6215, Museum Exhibits 1941 - 1953," WHMI.

13. "Whitman National Monument Interpretive Statement," Memorandum, p. 1, Archives, File "K1817, Interpretive Statement 1941, 1947," WHMI.

14. Superintendent MR to Superintendent WNM, 26 August 1952, Archives, File "D6215, Museum Exhibits 1941 - 1953," WHMI.

15. Regional Naturalist to Superintendent MR, 9 September 1952, Archives, File "D6215, Museum Exhibits 1941 - 1953," WHMI.

16. Superintendent WNM to Superintendent MR, 21 September 1952, Archives, File "D6215, Museum Exhibits 1941 - 1953," WHMI.

17. Regional Naturalist to Director, 8 October 1952, Archives, File "D6215, Museum Exhibits 1941 - 1953," WHMI.

18. Superintendent WNM to Superintendent MR, 16 November 1953, Archives, File "D6215, Planning Preparation Maintenance Preservation of Museum Exhibits 1955 - 1961," WHMI.

19. "Master Plan Development Outline, Whitman National Monument, Interpretation," Memorandum, 28 may 1953, p. 1, Archives, File "D18, Master Plans 1954," WHMI.

20. Superintendent WNM to Superintendent MR, 16 November 1953, Archives, File "D6215, Planning Preparation Maintenance Preservation of Museum Exhibits 1955 - 1961," WHMI.

21. Superintendent WNM to Superintendent MR, 15 May 1955, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

22. Jack Farr and Dr. Robert L. Whitner, "Museum Prospectus for Whitman National Monument," 1959, p. 3, Archives, File "K1817, Interpretive Prospectus 1959," WHMI.

23. Acting Regional Director to Director, 19 April 1960, Archives, File "D6215, Planning Preparation Maintenance Preservation of Museum Exhibits 1955 - 1961," WHMI.

24. Ibid.

25. "Master Plan for Whitman National Monument," Mission 66 Edition, 1959, revised 1960, Archives, File "D18, Master Plans 1960 - 1962," WHMI.

26. Ibid., Vol. I, chapter 3, p. 4.

27. Erwin N. Thompson, "Interpretive Prospectus for Whitman National Monument," 1959,, revised August 1960, p. 4, Archives, File "K1817, Interpretive Prospectus 1960," WHMI.

28. Ibid., p. 62.

29. Ibid., p. 4.

30. Historian Whitman Mission to Superintendent Whitman Mission, 14 July 1962, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

31. "Annual Report on Information and Interpretive Services," Memorandum, 1982, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

32. Leland J. Abel and Floyd A. LaFayette, "Whitman National Monument Visitor Center Exhibit Plan," Archives, File "D6215, Visitor Center Exhibit Plan 1961 - 1962," WHMI.

33. Museum exhibits included: "Before the Missionaries," "Relics Found in Ruins of Whitman Mission," "American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions," "We Want You for Oregon," "The Call From the West," "Those Who Answered the Call," "The Trip West," "A Father's house Indeed," "The Cayuse Indians," "Indians of the Plateau," "Reinforcements for Oregon," "Missions in Oregon," "The Place of the Rye Grass," "Developments at Waiilatpu," "Marcus and Narcissa," "The Mission Children," "The Ride East," "The Oregon Trail," "The Gathering Storm," the massacre diorama, "Events that Followed," "Time and Distance."

34. Abel and LaFayette, "Exhibit Plan," p. 1.

35. The Oregonian, 27 June 1965, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1963 - 1966," WHMI.

36. The September and October Monthly Reports from 1941 - 1966 mention the annual visit of the Whitman College freshmen class. 1967 marked the end of this tradition. During this same time period, Whitman College History Professor, Dr. G. Thomas Edwards remembers students reflecting anti-Vietnam War sentiment and denouncing the Whitmans. G. Thomas Edwards, "The Marcus Whitman Legacy and Whitman College Leaders," Paper presented at Missionary Influences on Northwest History Conference, Walla Walla, Washington, 23 - 27 July 1986; revised 1987, p. 7.

37. Superintendent Whitman Mission to Regional Director, 21 August 1973, Archives, File "D6215, Whitman Mission Wayside Exhibit Plan 1964 - 1978," WHMI. Superintendent Kowalkowski's comment that settlers would have come without the Whitmans further indicates the shift away from the earlier interpretation which credited the Whitmans with westward expansion.

38. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 23 February 1975, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1974 - 1975," WHMI. Visitation from 1965 - 1973 fluctuated greatly with a decrease of 10,000 visitors from 1966 - 1967 and an increase of 10,000 from 1972 - 1973.

39. Superintendent Whitman Mission to Regional Director, 18 April 1975, Archives, File "D6215, Whitman Mission Exhibit Plan 1975," WHMI.

40. Raymond Stickler, "Whitman Mission National Historic Site Management Objectives," Memorandum, February 1971, p. 6, Archives, File "D18, Statements for Management," WHMI.

41. "Master Plan," 1959, revised 1964, chapter 3, section 2, p. 3, Archives, File "D18, Master Plan and Planning Program 1963 - 1964," WHMI.

42. Acting Superintendent Whitman Mission to Director, 28 June 1972, Archives, File "K18, Interpretive Activities 1973 - 1982," WHMI.

43. Reference to Director Hartzog's April 26, 1972 memorandum located in Acting Superintendent Whitman Mission to Regional Director, 28 June 1972, Archives, File "K18, Interpretive Activities 1973 - 1982," WHMI.

44. Ibid.

45. Acting Superintendent Whitman Mission to Director, 31 July 1972, Archives, File "K18, Interpretive Activities 1973 - 1982," WHMI.

46. "A Proposal and Exhibit Design Directive for the Whitman Mission Visitor Center," Memorandum, 30 July 1973, pp. 2 - 3, Archives, File "D6215, Wayside Exhibit Plans 1964 - 1978," WHMI.

47. Superintendent Whitman Mission to Regional Director, 21 August 1973, Archives, File "D6215, Whitman Mission Wayside Exhibit Plan 1964 - 1978," WHMI.

48. Ibid.

49. "A Proposal and Exhibit Design Directive for the Whitman Mission Visitor Center," Memorandum, 30 July 1973, Archives, File "D6215, Wayside Exhibit Plan 1964 - 1978," WHMI.

50. "Comprehensive Exhibit Plan," Memorandum, June 1974, Working Files, File "ID (2) Museum Revisions 1980," WHMI.

51. "Whitman Mission National Historic Site Exhibit Plan," March 1975, p. 1, Archives, File "D6215, Whitman Mission Exhibit Plan 1975," WHMI.

52. Ibid.

53. Superintendent Whitman Mission to Regional Director, 18 April 1975, Archives, File "D6215, Whitman Mission Exhibit Plan 1975," WHMI.

54. Ibid.

55. Acting Regional Director to Manager Harpers Ferry Center, 13 May 1975, Archives, File "D6215, Whitman Mission Exhibit Plan 1975, WHMI.

56. "Whitman Mission National Historic Site Exhibit Plan," March 1975; revised 14 August 1975; 4 March 1976, Archives, File "D6215, Whitman Mission Exhibit Plan 1975," WHMI.

57. Ibid., p. 3.

58. Ibid., p. 9.

59. Superintendent Whitman Mission to Regional Director, 5 May 1976, Archives, File "D6215, Whitman Mission Exhibit Plan 1975," WHMI.

60. Ibid.

61. Acting Associate Regional Director, Management an Operations to Manager Harpers Ferry Center, 24 June 1976, Working Files, File "ID (7) Proposed Museum Changes," WHMI.

62. "Whitman Mission National Historic Site Sound/Slide Script," Memorandum, 13 January 1977; revised 7 February 1977; 22 March 1977, Working Files, File "Museum Replace," WHMI.

63. Kowalkowski, interview, 2 December 1987.

64. "Statement for Native American Cultural Interpretation," Draft, 3 July 1979, Archives, File "K18, Interpretation 1978 - 1979," WHMI.

65. Tom Jenness Coulee Dam to Dave McGinnis, 1 August 1980, Archives, File "K18, Interpretive Activities 1973 - 1982," WHMI.

66. Regional Director to Manager Harpers Ferry Center, 1 November 1983, Working Files, File "Museum Rehabilitation 11-3-83," WHMI.

67. Superintendent Whitman Mission to Manager Harpers Ferry Center, 3 October 1983, Central Files, File "D6215, Planning Preparation Maintenance Preservation of Museum Exhibits 1983," WHMI.

68. Ibid.

69. Regional Director to Manager Harpers Ferry Center, 1 November 1983, Working Files, File "Museum Rehabilitation 11-3-83," WHMI.

70. Staff Curator Division of Exhibit Planning and Design, Harpers Ferry Center to Superintendent Whitman Mission, 10 July 1984, Working Files, File "Museum Replace," WHMI.

71. Superintendent Whitman Mission to Deputy Regional Director, 11 December 1984, Working Files, File "Museum Replace," WHMI.

72. Superintendent Whitman Mission to Regional Director, 5 March 1985, Working Files, File "Museum Replace," WHMI.

73. "1982 Annual Statement for Interpretive and Visitor Services Whitman Mission National Historic Site," p. 19, Archives File "K1817, Statement for Interpretation 1981 - 1982," WHMI.

74. "Whitman Mission National Historic Site Visitor Center Exhibits," May 1985; revised 8 July 1986, p. 33, (Memeographed.)

75. Regional Curator to Deputy Regional Director, 13 July 1987, Central Files, File "D6215, Planning Preparation Maintenance Preservation of Museum Exhibits," WHMI.

76. Interpretive Specialist Pacific Northwest Region to Deputy Regional Director, 23 July 1987, Central Files, File "D6215, Planning Preparation Maintenance Preservation of Museum Exhibits," WHMI.

77. Superintendent Whitman Mission to Regional Director, 23 July 1987, Central Files, File "D6215, Planning Preparation Maintenance Preservation of Museum Exhibits," WHMI.

78. Superintendent Whitman Mission to Regional Director, 30 November 1976, Archives, File "D6215, Whitman Mission Wayside Exhibit Plan 1964 - 1978," WHMI.


Chapter Seven: Relationship with Other Organizations


1. Interview with Robert Amdor, Walla Walla, Washington 19 November 1986.

2. William C. Everhart, The National Park Service (New York: Praeger Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 38.

3. National Park Courier, April 1968, National Park Service History Collection, Harpers Ferry Center, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

4. Ruthanne Heriot, "Environmental Education Preliminary Inventory," Index, 17 December 1986, National Park Service History Collection, Harpers Ferry Center, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

5. Radio interview script, 23 May 1969, Working Files, File "Raymond Stickler NEED Program," WHMI.

6. News Release, 21 May 1969, Working Files, File "Raymond Stickler NEED Program," WHMI.

7. Superintendent Whitman Mission to Regional Director, 11 June 1969, Archives, File "A6419, Goals/Objectives 1963 - 1984," WHMI.

8. "Whitman Mission National Historic Site Management Objectives," Memorandum, 19 February 1971, Archives, File "A6419, Goals/Objectives 1963 - 1984," WHMI.

9. "SAR," 1972; "SAR," 1973; "SAR," 1974, Archives, File "A2615, SAR 1972 - 1975," WHMI.

10. "SAR," 1973; "SAR," 1974' Archives, File "A2615, SAR 1972 - 1975," WHMI.

11. Secretary of the Interior to Heads of Bureaus, 13 July 1971, National Park Service History Collection, Harpers Ferry Center, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

12. "Whitman Mission National Historic Site Equal Employment Opportunity Guidelines FY 1975," Memorandum, 7 May 1974, File "P4021," Employment Office, National Park Service Pacific Northwest Region, Seattle, Washington.

13. Superintendent Whitman to Regional Director, 6 February 1976, Archives, File "A6419, Goals/Objectives 1963 - 1984," WHMI.

14. Director to Directorate and Field Directorate, 15 February 1985, National Park Service History Collection, File "H30," Harpers Ferry Center, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

15. Acting Director to Directorate and All Regional Directors, 6 February 1978, National Park Service History Collection, File "A5623," Harpers Ferry Center, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

16. Chief Park Interpreter to Superintendent, 19 November 1979; and Park Ranger to Superintendent, 7 August 1980, Archives, File "A6419, Goals/Objectives 1963 - 1984;" and "Situation Review Draft," Memorandum, no date, Archives, File "A2615, SAR 1976 - 1985," WHMI.

17. "SAN," 1980, Archives, File "A2615, SAR 1976 - 1985," WHMI.

18. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 24 March 1982, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1981 - 1986," WHMI.

19. Interview with Marjorie Williams, Walla Walla, Washington, 7 October 1987.

20. Ibid.

21. Ibid.

22. Ibid.

23. Superintendent Whitman to Equal Employment Officer, 7 October 1980, File "P2615," Employment Office, National Park Service Pacific Northwest Region, Seattle, Washington.

24. "SAN," 1981, Archives, File "A2615, SAR 1976 - 1985," WHMI.

25. Superintendent Whitman to Equal Opportunity Officer, 28 March 1985, File "P2615," Employment Office, National Park Service Pacific Northwest Region, Seattle, Washington.

26. Superintendent Whitman to Equal Opportunity Officer, 29 May 1987, File "P2615," Employment Office, National Park Service Pacific Northwest Region, Seattle, Washington.

27. Superintendent Whitman to Regional Director, 28 October 1977, Archives, File "A2615, SAR 1976 - 1985," WHMI.

28. "Whitman Mission National Historic Site Situation Review," Memorandum, 1 March 1979, Archives, File " A2615, SAR 1976 - 1985," WHMI.

29. "SAN," 1981, Archives, File "A2615, SAR 1976 - 1985," WHMI.

30. "SAN," 1985, Archives, File "A2615, SAR 1976 - 1985," WHMI.

31. Superintendent WNM to Superintendent MR, 22 September 1951, Archives, File "S72, Procurement of Supplies and Equipment 1941 - 1953," WHMI.

32. Superintendent WNM to Superintendent MR, 26 August 1950, Archives, File "S72, Procurement of Supplies and Equipment 1941 - 1953," WHMI.

33. Everhart, The National Park Service, p. 238.

34. "Status of Policy and Management Goals for FY80," Memorandum, Archives, File "A2615, SAR 1976 - 1985," WHMI.

35. "SAN," 1982, Archives, File "A2615, SAR 1976 - 1985," WHMI.

36. "SAN," 1985, Archives, File "A2615, SAR 1976 - 1985," WHMI.

37. Superintendent Whitman to Equal Opportunity Officer, 26 February 1986, File "P2615," Employment Office, National Park Service Pacific Northwest Region, Seattle, Washington.

38. News Release, "Entrance Fee Begins at Whitman Mission," no date, Working Files, File "News Releases," WHMI.

39. Courier, 32 (August 1987).

40. "Whitman National Monument Monthly Report," Memorandum, January 1941, Archives, File "A2615, MAR 1941 - 1962," WHMI.

41. Garth, interview.

42. Telephone interview with B. Loyal Smith, Walla Walla, Washington, 26 October 1987.

43. Telephone interview with Allen Reynolds, Walla Walla, Washington, 26 October 1987.

44. Telephone interview with Bill Vollendorf, Walla Walla, Washington, 26 October 1987.

45. "SAN," 1981, Archives, File "A2615, SAR 1976 - 1985," WHMI.

46. Telephone interview with Louise Jaussaud, Walla Walla, Washington, 13 December 1986.

47. Telephone interview with Albina Kness, Walla Walla, Washington, 26 October 1987.

48. Thompson, interview.

49. Waiilatpu Historical Association, Minutes of Meetings, Meeting of 8 February 1964, Marcus Whitman Foundation Papers, Box 1, File "Minutes of Meetings of Board of Trustees," Whitman College.

50. Pacific Northwest National Parks and Forest Association (Seattle: Pacific Northwest National Parks and Forest Association, 1987), p. 1.

51. "Annual Report for Waiilatpu Historical Association, Whitman Mission National Historic Site," 1964, Archives, File "A42, Annual Reports Waiilatpu Historical Association 1964 - 1969," WHMI.

52. Ibid.

53. "Annual Report for Waiilatpu Historical Association, Whitman Mission National Historic Site," 1974, Archives, File "A42, Annual Reports Waiilatpu Historical Association 1964 - 1969," WHMI.

54. "Master Plan for the Preservation and Use of Whitman National Monument, " 1959, revised 1960, Vol. 1, chapter 3, p. 3, Archives, File "D18, Master Plan Narrative 1960 - 1962," WHMI.

55. Telephone interview with Vance Orchard, Walla Walla, Washington, 26 October 1987.

56. Ibid.

57. Weldon to ?, no date, Archives, File "A30, Complaints 1948 - 1953," WHMI.

58. Thompson, interview.

59. Cameron Sherwood to Superintendent Amdor, 27 November 1986, Central Files, File "A8215, Sesquicentennial," WHMI.

60. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 24 March 1982, Archives, File "K34, Press Clippings 1981 - 1986," WHMI.

61. 61 Local visitation includes Tri-Cities, Walla Walla, Milton-Freewater, and Pendleton. Dr. Donald R. Field and James H. Gramann, "Interpretive Activity Inventory The Whitman Mission Data," 1977, (Mimeographed.) Less scientific and less accurate data compiled from the guest book by the Park staff reveals that 7 percent or 8,789 Walla Wallans signed the guest book in 1986.

62. "A New Chapter in the Acts of the Apostles," Whitman College Quarterly, 1 (January 1897): 16.

63. Erwin N. Thompson, " The Graves at Waiilatpu," 1964, pp. 17 - 18, Archives, File "H22, The Graves at Waiilatpu," WHMI.

64. Walla Walla Union, no date, Whitman Collection, File "W-13-Al No. 13," Whitman College.

65. "Acts of the Apostles," p. 17.

66. Thompson, "Graves at Waiiltpu," p. 22.

67. Portland Oregonian, 1 December 1897, Whitman Collection, File "W-13-Al No. 6," Whitman College.

68. Walla Walla Evening Statesman, 2 March ?, Archives, File "D66, Whitman Memorial Association 1897," WHMI.

69. Rice and Eells, "Statement Regarding Deficiency," 1907.

70. B. Loyal Smith, speech given at Memorial Day Observance, May 1986, videotape, WHMI.

71. Robert L. Whitner, "The Myth that Saved the College," Two Essays on the History of Whitman College (Whitman College: The Trustees of Whitman College, 1983), pp. 1 - 6.

70. Superintendent MR to Regional Director, 16 December 1946, Archives, File "A30, Complaints 1946 - 1953," WHMI.

73. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 17 October 1948, Archives, File "K34, Newspaper, magazine, etc. articles," WHMI.

74. Superintendent WNM to Superintendent MR, 26 March 1954, Archives, File "D6215, Planning Preparation Maintenance Preservation of Museum Exhibits 1955 - 1961," WHMI.

75. Dodd, interview.

76. Ibid.

77. Ibid.

78. Conversation with J. Horner, President Associated Students of Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, 3 October 1987.

79. Edwards, "The Marcus Whitman Legacy," p. 20.

80. Custodian Garth to Superintendent MR, 15 July 1949, Archives, File "A30, Complaints 1948 - 1953," WHMI.

81. U. S. Attorney to Superintendent MR, 4 January 1950, Archives, File "A30, Complaints 1948 - 1953," WHMI.

82. Superintendent WNM to ?, no date, Archives, File "A30, Complaints 1948 - 1953," WHMI.

83. Superintendent WNM to Superintendent MR, 28 November 1951, Archives, File "A30, Complaints 1948 - 1953," WHMI.

84. Superintendent WNM to Superintendent MR, 6 December 1950, Archives, File "L3019, Grazing S. U. P.s 1943 - 1955," WHMI.

85. Superintendent WNM to Superintendent MR, 1 September 1952, Archives, File "L3019, Grazing S. U. P.s 1943 - 1955," WHMI.

86. Superintendent WNM to Regional Director, 19 May 1958, Archives, File "L1425, Holdings Private 1958," WHMI.

87. Regional Director to Director, 20 July 1960, Archives, File "L1425, Holdings Private 1960," WHMI.

88. Interview with Molly Hanebut, Walla Walla, Washington, 9 October 1987.

89. Ibid.

90. Kowalkowski, interview, August 1986.

91. Amdor, interview.

92. Hanebut, interview.

93. Bill Vollendorf, "Whitman Mission Water Right History and Chronology," 1984, Archives, File "L54, Water Rights and Surface Water 1960 - 1963, 1980 - 1984," WHMI.

94. Shelden to Superintendent Whitman Mission, 23 October 1986, Central Files, File "L54, Surface Water Whitman Mission (Rights, Compacts, Resources)," WHMI.

95. Shelden to Superintendent Whitman Mission, 14 November 1980, Central Files, File "L3019, S. U. P. 9550-80-1 N. M. Shelden Grazing," WHMI.

96. Shelden to Gentlemen, 8 August 1978, Central Files, File "L3019, S. U. P. 9550-80-1 N. M. Shelden Grazing," WHMI.

97. Like Mr. Miller, Mr. Shelden tolerates the close proximity of Park visitors: "The Park . . . has essentially brought people to us and I can only forsee the extension, continuation, and growth of that same thing. It's understandable . . . but along with those things we would hope for a little protection and isolation or consideration." Interview with Neil Shelden, Walla Walla, Washington, 21 October 1987.

98. Regional Director to Superintendent MR, 11 December 1943, Archives, File "L3019, Grazing S. U. P.s 1943 - 1955," WHMI.

99. Acting Regional Director to Herbert West, 11 August 1942, Archives, File "L3019, Grazing (includes S. U. P.s)," WHMI.

100. "Whitman National Monument, Special Use Permit to Ray Shelden," 23 March 1944, Archives, File "L3019, Grazing S. U. P.s 1943 - 1955," WHMI.

101. Superintendent MR to Superintendent WNM, 11 August 1950, Archives, File "L3019, Grazing S. U. P.s 1943 - 1955," WHMI.

102. Ibid.

103. Superintendent WNM to Superintendent MR, 6 December 1950, Archives, File "L3019, Grazing S. U. P.s 1943 - 1955," WHMI.

104. Superintendent WNM to Superintendent MR, 2 October 1952, Archives, File "L3019, Grazing (includes S. U. P.)," WHMI.

105. Superintendent Whitman Mission to the Record, 25 August 1970, Central Files, File "L3019, S. U. P. 9550-80-1 N. M. Shelden Grazing," WHMI.

106. "Narrative Report for Special Use Permit for Agricultural Land Use, Whitman Mission National Historic Site," Memorandum, September 1974, Archives, File "L3015, Land Use: Agriculture 1952 - 1964," WHMI.

107. "Narrative Report for Special Use Permit for Agricultural Use, Whitman Mission National Historic Site," Memorandum, August 1978, Central Files, File "L3019, S. U. P. 9550-80-1 N. M. Shelden Grazing," WHMI.

108. Shelden to Gentlemen, 8 August 1978, Central Files, File "L3019, S. U. P. 9550-80-1 N. M. Shelden Grazing," WHMI.

109. "Special Use Permit No. 9550-80-1," Central Files, File "L3019, S. U. P. 9550-80-1 N. M. Shelden Grazing," WHMI.

110. Park Ranger to Superintendent, 7 August 1980, Archives, File Goals/Objectives 1963 - 1984," WHMI.

111. Superintendent Whitman Mission to Neil Shelden, 28 August 1980, Central Files, File "L3019, S. U. P. 9550-80-1 N. M. Shelden Grazing," WHMI.

112. Shelden to Gentlemen, 8 August 1978, Central Files, File "L3019, S. U. P. 9550-80-1 N. M. Shelden Grazing," WHMI.

113. "Special Use Permit No. CX955010001," Central Files, File "L3019, S. U. P. 9550-80-1 N. M. Shelden Grazing," WHMI.

114. Superintendent Whitman Mission to Neil Shelden, 28 November 1980, Central Files, File "L3019, S. U. P. 9550-80-1 N. M. Shelden Grazing," WHMI.

115. Amdor, interview.

116. Director to All Regional Directors, 19 April 1984, Central Files, File "H3015, Historical Property Leasing," WHMI.

117. "Agricultural Use Guide," Memorandum, Central Files, File "L30, S. U. P. Dave Corbett," WHMI.

118. Superintendent to Regional Director, 13 May 1985, Central Files, File "L30, S. U. P. Dave Corbett," WHMI.

119. Regional Director to Director, 3 October 1986, Central Files, File "H3015, Historical Property Leasing," WHMI.

120. Shelden, interview.

121. Ibid.

122. Ibid.

123. Ibid.

124. "Doan Creek Water Use Schedule, Whitman National Monument," Memorandum, 22 August 1955, Archives, File "L54, Water Matters 1921 - 1966," WHMI.

125. Superintendent WNM to Superintendent MR, 25 October 1950, Archives, File "L54, Water Matters 1921 - 1966," WHMI.

126. "Agreement Between National Park Service and Ray and Neil Shelden," Memorandum, 26 July 1963, Archives, File "L54, Water Matters 1921 - 1966," WHMI.

127. Interview with Richard Bughi, Walla Walla, Washington, 9 October 1987.

128. Hanebut, interview.


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