Jackson Hole Preserve project : oral history, 1966-1967.

Scope and Contents

This project relates the history of Jackson Hole Preserve, describing the Rockefeller family's interest in preserving and protecting the area and problems encountered in acquiring the land which was eventually added to the National Park System. Included are memoirs of people who knew Jackson Hole as their home and who have experienced the transformation of the area since it became part of the National Park System in the 1940s Participants and pagination of transcripts: Horace M. Albright, 238; Katharine Newlin Burt and Nathaniel Burt, 91; Kenneth Chorley, 160; Harold Fabian, 106; Clifford P. Hansen, 53; Harry E. Klissold, 50; W.C. Lawrence, 51; Leslie A. Miller, 122; Homer C. Richards, 53; Laurance Rockefeller, 42; Conrad L. Wirth, 76; Mike Yokel, 38. There is also a transcript and recording of interviewer Edwin Edwin's experience trying to interview Jack Dornan and his conversation about the experience with Josephine and Harold Fabian

Subjects

• Conservation of natural resources.
• Interviews.
• Jackson Hole Region (Wyo.)
• National parks and reserves--United States.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Rockefeller family.
• United States. National Park Service.

Access Conditions

No reproductions of interviews will be provided except with written permission of the Estate of Laurance S. Rockefeller, his heirs, legal representatives, or assigns