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Title: I Married a Ranger

Author: Dama Margaret Smith

Release Date: June 8, 2006 [EBook #18538]

Language: English

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I Married a Ranger

By Dama Margaret Smith

( Mrs. "White Mountain" )

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS STANFORD UNIVERSITY,

CALIFORNIA

LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS STANFORD UNIVERSITY,

CALIFORNIA

LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

THE MARUZEN COMPANY TOKYO, OSAKA, KYOTO, SENDAI

THE BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY 55 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK

Copyright 1930 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior

University All Rights Reserved Published 1930

PRINTED AND BOUND IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

This book is lovingly dedicated

to

White Mountain Smith

who has made me glad

I married a Ranger

FOREWORD

I Married a Ranger is an intimate story of "pioneer" life in a national park, told in an interesting, humorous way, that makes it most delightful.

To me it is more than a book; it is a personal justification. For back in 1921, when the author came to my office in Washington and applied for the clerical vacancy existing at the Grand Canyon, no woman had been even considered for

the position. The park was new, and neither time nor funds had been available to install facilities that are a necessary part of our park administrative and protective work. Especially was the Grand Canyon lacking in living quarters.

For that reason the local superintendent, as well as Washington Office officials, were opposed to sending any women clerks there.

Nevertheless, after talking to the author, I decided to make an exception in her case, so she became the first woman Government employee at the Canyon. I Married a Ranger proves that the decision was a happy one.

It is a pleasure to endorse Mrs. Smith's book, and at the same time to pay a tribute of admiration to the women of the Service, both employees and wives of

employees, who carry on faithfully and courageously under all circumstances.

ARNO B. CAMMERER

Associate Director,

National Park Service

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER

PAGE

" Out in Arizona, Where the Bad

I.

1

Men Are"