California--Tres Pinos

Hero Eugene Rensch reports that the explorer Captain George Vancouver wrote the most about the Pinnacles in 1794, and that they were relatively undocumented from that time until Harold W. Fairbanks wrote about them in the 1890s. After 1900, local newspapers and tourism booklets mentioned the Pinnacles “as unusual wonders of nature.” It was David Starr Jordan, the President of Stanford University, taking an interest in the Pinnacles which spurred President Theodore Roosevelt to create Pinnacles National Monument.

Collection

Pinnacles National Park

Creation Date

1936-02-07

Creator(s)

Rensch, Hero Eugene, 1889-

Responding to an earlier letter, Schuyler Colfax Hain explains to Roy Headley that he understands that the Pinnacles National Monument would still be administered by the Department of the Interior, yet he still believes that it should also be maintained as a National Forest. Hain would be glad to host Frederick Erskine Olmsted or Headley to let them see the area for themselves.

Collection

Pinnacles National Park

Creation Date

1910-08-04

Creator(s)

Hain, Schuyler Colfax, 1860-1930

Stanford University President David Starr Jordan writes to Schuyler Colfax Hain letting him know when he, his wife Jessie Knight Jordan, and Professor Vernon L. Kellogg are planning to visit the Pinnacles. He thanks Hain for the invitation to come visit and asks if he has suggestions regarding stables.

Collection

Pinnacles National Park

Creation Date

1904-04-29

Creator(s)

Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931