Oregon Experience: William Gladstone Steel

Further Reading

Belief and Ritual of Crater Lake: http://www.nps.gov/archive/crla/kllake.htm

Crater Lake Institute: http://craterlakeinstitute.com/

Crater Lake National Park: http://www.nps.gov/crla/

The Klamath Tribes: http://www.klamathtribes.org/

He All but Made the Mountains: William Gladstone Steel, Mountain Climbing, and the Establishment of Crater Lake National Park Oregon Historical Quarterly, Spring 2002

The Mazamas: http://www.mazamas.org/

Mount Hood: A Complete Story by Jack Grauer

Seventeen Years to Success: John Muir, William Gladstone Steel, and the Creation of Yosemite and Crater Lake National Parks by Stephen R. Mark, Crater Lake National Park Historian http://www.nps.gov/archive/crla/steel.htm

The Smith Brothers' Chronological History of Crater Lake National Park! Collected and edited by Larry B. Smith and Lloyd C. Smith http://www.drizzle.com/~rdpayne/smithbros/

Crater Lake National Park Trust CraterLakeTrust.org

About Steel
Read more about the "Father of Crater Lake National Park"
Steel the Collector
View pages from some of Steel's many scrapbooks
The Klamath Tribes
Read an Indian legend about the origins of Crater Lake
The Mazamas
Learn more about this unique climbing club
Further Reading
Explore related resources

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