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1. Edward W. Dixon, Inspector to Secretary of the Interior, February 15, 1913, RG 79, Central Files, 1907-39, File No. 204.010, Part 1, Crater Lake Inspections By Field Officers, and Steel to Thompson, July 15, 1912, Steel Correspondence Collection, Letter File 2, Item 266, Museum Collection, Crater Lake National Park. The report by Dixon contains interesting vignettes of park operations and conditions. Excerpts from the report may be found in Appendix A.
2. Steel to Arant, November 30, 1912, Steel Correspondence Collection, Letter File 2, Item 37, Museum Collection, Crater Lake National Park.
3. Arant to Steel, December 24, 1912, Steel Correspondence Collection, Letter File 2, Item 36, Museum Collection, Crater Lake National Park.
4. Steel to Arant, December 26, 1912, Steel Correspondence Collection, Letter File 2, Item 43, Museum Collection, Crater Lake National Park.
5. Steel to Arant, January 15, 1913, Steel Correspondence Collection, Letter File 2, Item 42, Museum Collection, Crater Lake National Park.
6. Arant to Steel, January 15, 1913, Steel Correspondence Collection, Letter File 2, Item 45, Museum Collection, Crater Lake National Park.
7. Portland Journal, February 7, March 5, 10, 1913; and Portland Oregonian, March 22, 1913; and Klamath Falls Northwestern, May 25, 1913, Steel Scrapbooks, Crater Lake, No. 37, Vol. 5, Museum Collection, Crater Lake National Park.
8. Steel to Chamberlain, March 1, 1913, Steel Scrapbooks, No. 37, Vol. 5, Museum Collection, Crater Lake National Park.
9. Klamath Falls Northwestern, June 13, 18, 1913, and Mail Tribune, June 10, 12, 13, July 10, 1913, Steel Scrapbooks, No. 37, Vol. 5, Museum Collection, Crater Lake National Park.
10. Steel to Chamberlain, July 22, 1913, Steel Correspondence Collection, Letter File 2, Item 215, Museum Collection, Crater Lake National Park.
11. U.S. ex rel. William F. Arant, Appellant Vs. Franklin K. Lane,
Secretary of the Interior, No. 2, 853, In the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, RG 79, Central Files, 1907-39, File No. 201-006, Part 1, Crater Lake, Administration, Superintendent, 1917-29.
12. Steel to White, August 16, 1913, Steel Correspondence Collection, Letter File 2, Item 297, Museum Collection, Crater Lake National Park.
13. Horace M. Albright, The Birth of the National Park Service: The Founding Years, 1913-33 (Salt Lake City, 1985), p. 65.
