INDEX




Abbey, Edward, 159-60

access to PFNM, early, 57,58,63

Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities (1906), 4, 47,54-56 ,59

Adamana, Ariz., 38,41 -42,62, 71

Adamana brown pottery, 146, 148,150

Adamana Hotel and Auto Livery, 85,108

Adams, William, Jr., 43-44

administrative history of PFNP, 6

aetosaurs, 155

air quality at PFNP, 142

Agassiz, Louis, 34

Agate Bridge, 40, 59

Agate house (Pueblo III site), 27,117-18 ,147

air quality at PFNP, 142

Albright, Horace, 100, 103

Alexander, Annie, 79

Alton, Robert R., 79

amphibians: fossils of, 20-21: of Permian Period, 37: of Triassic Period, 37

Anasazi peoples, 25-27, 148-49: cul-tural development of, 25: migration of, 25: pottery of, 148-49

antiquities in the Southwest: Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities, 4, 47, 54-56,59: federal protectionof, 52-54, 55-56

Araucarioxylon arizonicum, 18, 37

Araucarites mollhausianus, 36

archaeological expeditions, 69-71

archaeological sites outside PFNP boundaries, 163-64

Archaic sites, 149-50

Arizona, Northeastern: Cretaceous pe-riod and, 17; descriptions by nine-teenth century explorers, 35- 36; reptiles in, 22- 23; road conditions in early twentieth century, 83; Triassic period and, 16-17

Arizona and New Mexico Land Com-pany, 99, 102, 141

Ash, Sidney, 17, 19

Ashurst, Henry Fountain,123-24, 125

Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company. See Santa Fe Railroad

Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, 36

Aubrey, Francois X., 36

automobile tourism, 87, 89, 106


badlands terrain of the Painted Desert, 15, 111, 161

Bandelier National Monument, 124

Barnes, Will c., 45

Basin and Range (McPhee), 9

Beale, Edward F., 36

Bidahochi Formation, 17, 24

Black Forest, 32, 36, 59, 110

Blake, WP., 34

Blue Mesa: appearance of, 15; Blue Forest ofJohn Muir, 75, 78; dinosaur footprint at, 154; petrified stumps at, 18, 152; Triassic leaffossils at, 151-52

boundaries: expansion plans for PFNP, 8, 162- 65; of original reserve, reduction in, 58 - 59

Branch, William E., 131

Brown, Barnum, 68

Bryant, Harold, 146

budget for PFNM, 55-56, 63,98,99

Butcher, Devereux, 136, 137- 38


Cameron, Ariz., 68

Cammerer, Arno B., 112, 113; resistance to park status for PFNM by, 123-24; support for PFNM , 89, 91, 92,98-99; William Nelson and, 95-96

Camp, Charles L., 79-80,155

campaigns for national park status for PFNM, 123-24, 134

Campbell, Chester B., 63-64, 85

Canyon de Chelly, 14, 29

cattle ranching in Northeastern Arizona, 141

Ceratodus, 20

chalcedony, 11

Chalcedony Manufacturing Company, 43

Chalcedony Park, 39,49; location of, 38; petrified wood at, 67; transition to PFNM, 55; USGS survey of, 11

Chinlea (fish), 20

Chinle escarpment, 163

Chinle Formation: compared to Triassic Keuper Formation, 34; composition of, 14, 16-17; dating of, 34; ero-sion's role in creation of, 15-16, 24; fossil yields within, 69; naming of, 14; plant groups within, 19; rock color of. 14- 15; scientific investigationof, 78-79, 162-163

Civilian Conservation Corps, 115, 118-22

Civil Works Administration, 116- 17, 118

Civil Works Projects, 117-18

Clarkson, Hunter, 107-8, 112

coelacanth fishes, 155

Coelophysis, 23

Colbert, E.H., 22, 24

Colter, Mary Elizabeth, 130

Colton, Harold Sellers, 113-14

concessionaires, 101 -2,107; as custo-dians of national monuments, 85; Fred Harvey Company, 107 -8, 130, 139

Cosgrove,C.B., 117, 146-47

Cotton, Alice, 71

Cretaceous period, 17

Crystal Forest, 32, 155

custodial care system for national monuments, 85, 86, 92, 96

custodial care, volunteer, of PFNM, 57 58,63,85,86

Cutter, Paul F., 113

cycad fossils, 19


Dana, James Dwight, 34

Daugherty, Lyman, 69, 152

Desmotosuchus, 22- 2 3

development within PFNP, 143

Devil's Playground, 153

De Voto, Bernard, 134- 35

dicynodonts, 68

dinosaur evidence in PFNP, 154, 155

dinosaur fossils, findings in northeastern Arizona of, 12, 13, 23

Dinosaur Hill Quarry, 155

Domenach, Emmanual Henri Dieubonne, 36


earthquakes and petrification process, 40

ecosystems of Northeastern Arizona, short-grass prairie, 165

educational function ofpFNP, 161 -62

environmental threats: to national parks, 135-36; to Petrified Forest National Monument area, 133-34, 140, 141, 164-65

erosion in creation of Chinle Formation, 15-17,24

expansion of PFNM, 68-69, 107, 110-11


facilities at PFNM: condition of, 102; tourist facilities at, 101 - 3; upgrading offacilities at, 126

facilities at PFNP: lack of tourist amenities at, 154; lack of visitor over-night accommodations, 143

Fagergren, Fred, 138, 139

faunal succession, law of, 66

federal reserves, categories of, 54

fish fossils, 20

Flattops, 15, 27, 118,147,148

Forest Hotel, 6, 63, 71,72,85

fossils: compression type, 18, 19; creation of, 16-18, 24. See also petrification

fossils, Triassic: amphibians, 20- 21 ; animal remains, 20; fish, 20; insect, 19; plant, 19, 20; relationship between findings in Arizona and other countries, 22-23; reptile, 22-23

Fred Harvey Company, 107-8, 130, 139

future proposed changes at PFNP, 162


Gastellum, Edward, 156

geologie formations, Bidahochi, 17, 24. See also Chinle Formation

geologic systems, 66

geologic time, 9

Gerti (dinosaur), discovery of, 12, 13

Goeppert, H.R., 35-36, 37

Great Depression, impact on tourism of, 111-12, 125-26

Gregory, H.E., 14

Grigsby, H.F. (Dick), 101, 107, 129

Grinnell, Joseph, 95


Hall, James, 34

Hammack, Nancy, 149

Hanna, Adam, 41-42,48

Hanna, Anna, 41

Harveycar coaches, 108

Hatch, Carl, 123

Hayden, Carl, 94, 134, 137

Hesperosuchus, 23

Hewett, Edgar L., 53, 54, 65

highway construction, impact on tourist population at PFNM, 89

Holbrook, Ariz., 36, 38, 94, 95, 123

Holsinger, S.J., 48, 56

Hoover, Herbert, 107, 110

Hopkins, Harry, 116-17

horsetail fossils, 19

Hough, Walter, 69-71, 146-47

housing developments outside of PFNP, 141

Hovey, H.C., 38-39

Humberger, Charles E., 138, 139

Hyde, Anne Farrar, 35


Ickes, Harold,112, 113, 115, 124

insect fossils, 19

interpretive programs: educational value of, 5, 95,153-54; at PFNMI PFNP, 93, 94-95, 96, 111

Interstate 40, 161

Ives, Joseph c., 36


Jack Rabbit Trading Post, 132

Jacobs, Charles, 132-33

Jasper Forest, 155

Jasperized Wood and Mineral Company, 43-44, 45

Jennings, Calvin, 149

Johnson, Robert Underwood, 73, 77


Kabotie, Fred, 130- 31

Kellogg, Louise, 79

Kern, Richard, 30

Knowlton, Frank, 37, 66

Kunz, George Frederick, 39,42,45


Laboratory of Anthropology (Santa Fe, New Mex.), 12, 117

Lacey, John F., 48, 50- 5 1,52- 53,76

land exchanges to consolidate federal holdings, 106-7, 109

leafimpressions, Triassic, 152

legislation, Congressional: bills to establish Petrified Forest National Park, 50- 52; for protection of natural sites, 47; protection of Southwestern antiquities, 52-54, 55-56, 59

Lithodendron Creek, 31

Lithodendron Wash, 32, 33, 37, 38

Little Colorado River Valley: American settlement of, 36; fossil findings in, 68

living conditions for custodians of PFNM, 100, 106

local economies and PFNM, 94, 112-113, 114, 138

Long, Robert, 12-13, 155

Lore, Herbert D., 108-9

Lummis, Charles F., 40, 41,48,62


MacCannell, Dean, 91

Marcou, Jules, 31, 34, 35, 37

Mather, Stephen, 3, 84, 99-100

McEvoy, E.V., 123

McPhee, John, 9

Mehl, Maurice G., 79

Mera,H.P., 117, 146-47

Merrill, George P., 57- 58

Mesa Southwest Museum, 153

Metoposaurus, 20- 22

Mexia, Ynez, 79

Miller, Julia, 112- 13, 114

mineral value of petrified wood, 43-44

Mission 66 (National Parks improvement plan), 122; accomplishments at PFNM, 136-40; criticism of, 135-36; objectives of, 128, 135; recommendation for park status of PFNM, 13 6

Mogollon peoples, 26, 27,148-49

Möllhausen, Heinrich Baldwin, 31, 32-36 ,67

Mountains without Handrails: Reflections on the Notional Parks (Sax), 160

Muir, John, 62, 72-78

museums: facilities at PFNM, 111; for educational purposes at PFNP, 153-54

Museum-Gates Expedition (1901 ), 69-71

Museum of Northern Arizona (Flag-staff,Ariz.), 12, 148, 149, 154

Museum of Paleontology (University of California), 12


national monuments: criteria for sites as, 55; custodial care system for, 85, 86,92,96; definition of, 55; lack of funding for, 55-56, 93; legislative creation of, 54-55; management policy vacuum in, 97; National Park Service and, 64, 90; New Deal programs and improvements at, 6, 116; as roadside attractions for auto tourists, 90,102-3,125; scientific interest of, 102-3; scientific versus scenic attractions in, 124; second class status of, 92-93, 94, 116

national park status and PFNM, 98-99, 139

National Parks and Conservation Association, 128,131,137

national parks and monuments: administration by U.S. Army of, 57; budget for, 134; concessionaires in, 85-86, 114- 15; criteria for status as, 49- 50; early site designations of, 51-52; environmental threats to, 128, 140; exploitation of natural resources in Western, 42; impact of automobiles on, 84; impetus for development of, 3-4; improvement of tourist facilities at, 135-36; Mission 66 improvement plan, 122; negative impact of World War II on, 127-28; relationship with railroad companies, 60-61 ,84-85; road building and maintenance at, 84; scenic requirements for status, 3-4, 124-25; tourism at. See tourism in national parks and monuments; useless scenery argument, 51

National Park Service: budget in early days of, 64; budget reductions during World War II, 127; definition of parks within, 8-9, 136-137; deterioration of reserves within, 134-35; establishment of, 64; funding of monuments by, 88-89; growth of, 134; interpretive programs and, 95. See Mission 66 (National Parks improvement plan); neglect of monuments by, 88; New Deal programs for, 115-22; promotion of automobile tourism by, 84-85, 90; responsibilities of, 64

National Park Service Act (1916), 64

Notional Parks in Crisis (National Parks and Conservation Association), 128

national park status: attainment by monuments of, 5; initial efforts for Petrified Forest area, 50-51 ; legislation needed to attain, 50- 51 ; opposition to PFNM for, 123-24, 137-38; scenic requirements for, 3-4, 124- 25

National Register of Historic Places, 150

Native American groups in the Petrified Forest area, 25-26, 70-71, 146-47

natural resources within national parks, exploitation of, 42

natural wonders, 41

Nelson, William, 85, 86-97

New Deal programs for national parks and monuments, 6, 115-22

noise pollution at national parks, 142


Pacific railroad surveys, 35; thirty-fifth parallel (Whipple), 30-32, 34

Painted Desert: badlands terrain of, 14,111, 161; Black Forest of, 110; colors and composition of, 14- 15; incorporation into PFNM, 109-10; location from Route 66, 108; Mission 66 plans for, 136; scenic value of, 110,142

Painted Desert Inn, 108-9, 110; deterioration of, 131-32; Fred Harvey Company and, 130, 139; Fred Kabotie murals at, 130- 31 ; HerbertLore and, 108- 10; proposed rehabilitation of, 162; renovation of, 119-22; success of, 108, 110, 128- 29

Painted Desert Oasis, 139, 140

Painted Desert Park, 128, 132-33

paleontological survey of PFNP, 154

park status established for PFNP, 139

Pecos classification periods,150

petrification, 17-18. See also fossils

Petrified Forest area: early American expeditions of, 29- 31; early federal protection of, 45-46, 49; initial efforts for national park status, 50-51 ; popular nineteenth century images of, 38-40; prehistoric settlement of, 25-28, 69-70; scientific value of, 49; Spanish exploration of, 28; threat of industrial developments in, 45-46; tourism in nineteenth century of, 38- 39, 42; United States ownership of, 28. See also Chalcedony Park

Petrified Forest National Wilderness Area, 140

petrified wood: creation of, 40; curiosity value of, 7,41, 44, 45; decorative uses of, 39-40,42,44; destruction of, 42,90, 91; discovery recorded of, 29, 30; early descriptions of, 30, 31-34; legal description of, 44; logs, 16, 17-18 ; marketing of, 44; as mineral commodity, 43, 45, 48; as national treasure, 48-49; nineteenth century theories about, 40; reasons to protect, 68; scientific determination of source of, 66-67, 69; theft by tourists of, 56- 57, 90, 131; tree species of, 152; vandalism by tourists of, 45

Phillips, Henry, 97

Phillips, Paul, 78-79

phytosaurs, 21-22, 68,78-79, 80-81 ,152-53

Pinkley, Frank, 6, 87-93, 111, 118

Placerias, 23, 68, 81

plate tectonics, theory of, 16,23-24

popularity of PFNM, 56, 62, 64,81-82, 83,93, 134

pottery finds, 148-49

Powell, John Wesley, 66

prehistoric habitation sites in Petrified Forest area, 25-27, 147, 150-51

preservation of antiquities in America, legislation for, 4, 47, 54- 57, 59

private land holdings in federal reserves, 106

private lands within PFNM, 99, 102,106-7, 138, 139

protection of PFNP, 143

Public Works Administration, 115, 116

Pueblo era sites, 150

Puerco Indian Ruin, 27, 70, 117-18, 140 ,147,149

Puerco River, 87, 142


radiation pollution of water sources, 142 -43

railroad companies, relationship with national parks, 61,84-85

railroad surveys. See Pacific railroad surveys

Rainbow Forest, 32, 59, 89

Rainbow Forest Lodge, 129

rainfall patterns in Petrified Forest area, 15

Reames, A.E., 123

Rector, Robert, 156

Reed, Erik, 147, 153-53

reptile fossils, 21-23

research center for PFNP, 162

Richards, W.A., 57

roads within Petrified Forest area, 63- 64,87,101,106,143

Roosevelt, Theodore, 54, 55

Rose, R.W., 111

Route 66,86-87, 110,112, 129, 132

Runte, Alfred, 4

Russell, C.P., 111


Santa Fe Railroad, 36, 60-61; Fred Harvey Indian Detours program and, 107-8, 112; promotion of Petrified Forest National Monument by, 60-63, 71-72, 75,107

Sax, Joseph, 160

scenery versus science in national parks and monuments, 124-25

scenic vistas of the West, early descriptions of, 35

Schilderia adamanica,19, 152

Schroeder, Albert, 149

Schwarz, G.M., 79

scientific inquiry, 156 - 57

scientific research within PFNM, 7, 80-81,83

scientific value of Petrified Forest area, 49

Seven Years' Residence in the Great Deserts of North America (Domenach, 1860)

shark fossils, 20

Shepherd, Anna O., 149

Sherman, William Tecumseh, 37

Sigillaria Grove, 75, 76

silicified wood. See petrified wood

Simpson, James H., 29

Sinagua peoples, 26

Sitgreaves, Lorenzo L., 29- 30

Small, Bryan, 12, 155- 56

Smith, Charles G. "White Mountain," 103,105- 26

Smithsonian Institution, 31 , 37, 48

Some Strange Corners of Our Country (Lummis), 40, 41

Southwestern National Monuments, 88-89

St. Johns-Holbrook highway, 89

Stevenson, AI, 56, 57-59, 71

stratigraphy in early geology, 66

Swaine, P.T., 37


Taft, William Howard, 59

Tanner's Crossing, Ariz., 68

thecodont reptiles, 22 - 23, 37, 66. See also phytosaurs

theft of fossil specimens from PFNM, 56 - 57,58- 50, 130

thirty-fifth parallel railroad survey. See Pacific railroad surveys

Tilden, Paul, 5

Tillotson, M. R., 100- 102

Tiponi Point Visitor Center, 161, 162

Toll, Roger, 110, 124

tourism in national parks and monuments, 56, 85; criticism of, 159-60; impact of automobiles on, 83-84,87; impact of Great Depression on, 125-26; promotion by National Park Service of, 84- 85, 90; railroad promotion of, 61 -62,84-85; routes through Petrified Forest National Monument, 89

tourism in Petrified Forest area, 160-61; in nineteenth century, 38 - 39, 42

tourists: behavior at national monuments, 90, 91; perception of Petrified Forest National Monument, 135

tree growth within PFNP, 18

trees, types of petrified, 18- 19

Triassic Keuper Formation (Germany) compared with Chinle Formation, 34

Triassic Period, 14, 66; amphibians in, 37; Chinle escarpment ecosystem, 8, 163; leafimpressions of, 152; location of land masses in, 16; North-eastern Arizona during, 16- 17 ; plant life during, 19; reptiles in Northeastern Arizona, 22- 23; significance in earth's history of, 37-38

Twin Buttes site, 27, 70, 148-49

Typothorax, 22- 23


Udall, Stewart, 137

United Nuclear Corporation, 142-43

United States Geological Survey, 11

uranium mining, 133- 34


Van Cleve, Philip E, 154

vandalism by tourists at PFNM, 91-92, 93,98, 130

visitor center at PFNM, 138- 39, 143

visitor centers in national parks and monuments, 138-39

vistas from PFNP, 141 -42

volcanoes and petrification process, 18, 40

Vroman, Adam Clark, 42


Wagon Road from Fort Defiance to the Colorado River (Beale), 36

Walker, MyrIV., 119, 146, 151-53

Walton, Matt, 15

Ward, Lester Frank, 48-49, 50, 66-69

Welles, Samuel, 80

Wendorf, Fred, 148-49

Western Archeological and Conservation Center (Tucson, Ariz.), 162

Western territories of the United States, monumental scenery of, 25

Whipple, Arnie! Weeks, 31-32

Whitcraft, Thomas E., 128, 131

Williston, S.w., 78-79

Wirth, Conrad, 109-10,128,134

Woodhouse, Samuel Washington, 30

Woodworthia arizonica, 18-19

Works Progress Administration, 115

World War II, impact on national parks and monuments of, 127-28, 129-30