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Description

The six "Stenorette" tape magazines at 45 minutes each (circa 1959) have not been transcribed, as a playback device is not available.

The 105 color slides and transparencies are related to Rogers' PCT talks, featuring map symbols, wind velocity, bus stops near the trail, rock formations, fault lines, wilderness areas, national forests and parks. There are a few slides of YMCA Camp Campbell (Rogers in a red plaid shirt). The slides are arranged in presentation sheets, but are grouped as they were in their original boxes.

Type

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Date

circa 1959-1980

Call number

Series 6

Creator

Rogers, Warren Lee (1912-1992)(Opens in new tab)

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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5 Stenorette tapes (circa 1959) in original boxes; one without box

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 6: Other media

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Five slide sheets with 56 slides, 1977, 1979

Manuscripts

Series 6: Other media

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Five slide sheets with 49 slides and transparencies, 1977, 1980

Manuscripts

Series 6: Other media

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Rogers' Businesses

Manuscripts

Rogers parlayed his backpacking expertise and PCT connections into various business ventures including numerous publications (Western Camping Magazine, PCT Quarterly, Camp Directors Digest, PCT Voice, the PCT Relays booklet), his PCT Pocket Guide maps and the Food Pack service which supplied meals to hikers along the trail. The folders are arranged alphabetically by name of product, service or related subject. Rogers set up trail registers at certain points along PCT and excerpts from those logs are in this series, some of which have Polaroids of the hikers attached. His position as elder PCT statesman brought him in contact with hikers from all over the world, as shown in the "Hikers, PCT" folders. For the Camp Directors Digest publication, Rogers collected research data from camps across America, and these files are arranged alphabetically by camp name in Boxes 50-52 (Series 4c). The maps he used for trail update information are also in a separate section, Boxes 34-48 (Series 4a). These boxes are initially arranged by state - Washington, Oregon and California (which reflects the preferred PCT route by hikers) - and then alphabetically by national forest or other geographic area. Box 48 contains maps for British Columbia, Idaho and Nevada. Box 49 contains Series 4b, the over-sized PCT-related maps.

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Other Camp Research Participants, 1968-1970

Manuscripts

Series 4c: Rogers' Businesses: Camps

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Other Camp Research Participants, 1968-1970