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Jane Marguerite Lindsley (later Marguerite Lindsley Arnold; October 2, 1901 – May 18, 1952) was the first woman to be appointed to a year-round park ranger position in the United States National Park Service. Lindsley had a ten-year career as a ranger and as a ranger-naturalist starting in 1921.
Cresap also traveled at least once to Virginia, for Virginia-based trader Claiborne also traded for furs in the lower Susquehanna area of Chesapeake Bay.Cresap fled from Virginia either because of the Native American raids against white settlers in 1722, or because a dozen or more fellow settlers drove him as he cleared timber to make a dwelling and secure his land claim.
The first Director of the National Park Service, Stephen T. Mather, reflected upon the early park rangers in the US National Parks as follows: They are a fine, earnest, intelligent, and public-spirited body of men, these rangers. Though small in number, their influence is large. Many and long are the duties heaped upon their shoulders.
The early colonial records of Maryland describe the area as a hunting ground for Native Americans. In 1693, rangers in the King's service from a nearby garrison patrolled the area calling the land Soldiers Delight. In the 18th century, King George II made gifts of land grants upon Maryland's earliest settlers in what was then Soldiers Delight ...
The Birth of the National Park Service. Salt Lake City: Howe Brothers, 1985. Albright, Horace M, and Marian Albright Schenck. Creating the National Park Service: The Missing Years. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. Berkowitz, Paul D. The Ranger Image and Noble Cause Corruption in the National Park Service. Walterville Oregon: Trine ...
All available medics rushed to the scene, and rangers dispatched the park’s two ambulances. It was an “all-hands-on-deck call,” said Spencer Solomon, Death Valley National Park’s emergency ...
An Interview with Robert M. Utley on the History of Historic Preservation in the National Park Service—1947-1980 Robert Utley presented personal stories, at the Friends of the Little Bighorn Battlefield symposium in 2001, about life as a seasonal ranger at then Custer Battlefield National Monument from 1947-1952.
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