Manuscripts

Outdoor Recreation and Organizations (non-PCT)

Description: Highlights include files on the American Camping Association, Association of Outdoor Education, National Survival Association, Pacific Camping Federation, Southern California Camping Association and several folders on the YMCA in various regions. There is information on backpacking, the Appalachian Trail, the Mineral King development in California's Sequoia National Forest, clubs, museums, facilities, services, bibliographies and the origins of geographic names. An alphabetical-by-subject arrangement is used throughout. In boxes 59 and 60 there is an assortment of camping magazines and newsletters.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1935-1992
Call number: Series 5
Creator: Rogers, Warren Lee (1912-1992)(Opens in new tab)

PCT Governing Bodies

Manuscripts

Correspondence between Rogers and representatives of the various governing bodies overseeing the Pacific Crest Trail is arranged alphabetically by the name of the governing body: the (PCT) Advisory Council (created by the National Trails Act of 1968); California state departments of Water and Parks and Recreation; the Pacific Crest Trail System Conference; United States Department of Agriculture - United States Forest Service; United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management and USDI's National Park Service.

Series 3

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Rogers' Personal Papers

Manuscripts

Beyond the bills and trifles of every day life are letters from hiking buddies from Rogers' YMCA days who nicknamed him "Cactus," files on George Williams College which Rogers attended, YMCA Camp Meehan where he worked, and his Army records. The few photographs found are from a trip to Death Valley in the early '40s and from the Bakersfield area.

Series 7

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Bibliographies, PCT, 1973

Manuscripts

Correspondence and other papers of Warren Lee Rogers and Clinton Clarke dealing with the Pacific Crest Trail. Included are Clarke's publications, the Y-Relays correspondence, photographs, radio scripts, participants' surveys and transcribed portions of the log book; the PCT registers and hikers' correspondence, maps, visitor guides and brochures of national forests and parks in Washington, Oregon, California and elsewhere. Correspondents include Ansel Adams, Hanson W. Baldwin, Devereux Butcher, Oscar L. Chapman, Ernest A. Dench, Newton Bishop Drury, Roland C. Geist, Francis P. Farquar.

Series 5: Outdoor Recreation and Organizations (non-PCT)

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Registers, PCT: 1988

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Series 4: Rogers' Businesses

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Registers, PCT: 1986

Manuscripts

Series 4: Rogers' Businesses

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Volunteerism, PCT, undated

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Series 4: Rogers' Businesses

Outdoor Recreation and Organizations (non-PCT)

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