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And when we went on our first trip out West, some twenty years later, one of the places we went to was Yellowstone. Of course my father had to meet the superintendent of Yellowstone and he went in and introduced himself and dragged my brother and me along with him to meet the superintendent of Yellowstone Park, whom my father didn't really know at all.

He wanted to find out --

-- find out how wonderful the whole business was. It turned out that that superintendent was somebody that I got to know quite well much later in life, a man named Horace Albright who was not only the superintendent of Yellowstone at that time, but became, if not the director of the national park system, certainly the best known national park conservationist in America. Horace Albright, the man who, working for John D. Rockefeller, managed to acquire the property that became Grand Teton National Park, by buying up the entire area for Rockefeller, who turned it over to the United States government as a national park.

My first memory of Horace was trailing my father and shaking hands with the superintendent of Yellowstone solely because my father was such a great admirer of the parks and wanted to tell the superintendent so.

That's marvelous.