Tallest mountain in u.s. not alaska

Denali pronunciation
Denali meaning
Denali vs everest

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Recall that Congress had rested on its laurels after enactment of the park legislation in 1917. For more than 4 years McKinley was a park in name only—unfunded, unmanned, unprotected. Finally—after many petitions from conservationists, the Governor of Alaska, and Interior Department and NPS officials—Congress appropriated $8,000 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1921. Increased market hunting and poaching, paired with the threat posed by the approaching railroad, had jolted Congress to take the first step in carrying out its own statutory mandate: to preserve the park as a game refuge.

By then the name of Henry P. Karstens headed the list of those being considered for the job of park superintendent. Karstens had broached the subject in a 1918 letter to NPS Assistant Director Horace Albright. This was the letter, solicited by Albright, that established Charles Sheldon as the originator of the Mount McKinley National Park idea. In describing Sheldon's concept of a park that would protect Denali's game, Karstens stated: "One thing which brings it h

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Charles Sheldon and the Creation of Denali National Park - B&C Impact Series

On the shelves of the Boone and Crockett Club’s library at their Missoula, Montana, headquarters sits a simple canvas and leather-bound book about an inch thick. On its spine is printed “Mount Mckinley National Park” in gold letters. Anyone who picks up this piece of history will find that, sometime in the last century, Boone and Crockett member C. Hart Merriam compiled all the maps, articles, letters, and manuscripts that he could find on the creation of Mount McKinley National Park—what we now call Denali.

The non-descript book reveals that Boone and Crockett Club member Charles Sheldon was the driving force behind protecting the area in and around Denali, as both a refuge for wildlife and an increasingly urban society. Numerous times, Sheldon called on the Boone and Crockett Club and its network of influential members to support his vision, which they did. On paper, it might look as though it only took Charles Sheldon a couple years to protect Denali. In reality, his quest lasted the better part

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Walter Harper

American mountain climber (1893–1918)

This article is about the mountaineer. For other uses, see Walter Harper (disambiguation).

Walter Harper (1893 – October 25, 1918) was a mountain climber and guide of mixed white and Alaska Native ancestry. On Saturday, 7 June 1913, he was the first person to reach the summit of Denali (Mount McKinley), the highest mountain in North America.^[1] He was followed by the other members of the small expedition team, guide Harry Karstens, Episcopal archdeacon Hudson Stuck, who had organized the effort, and Episcopal missionary Robert Tatum.

After gaining more formal education, Harper married in 1918 and planned to attend medical school in Philadelphia. He and his wife took the steamer SS Princess Sophia from Skagway to Seattle for their honeymoon before setting off cross-country. The ship ran aground on a reef in a snowstorm, and was broken up in a gale, sinking on October 25. All 268 passengers and 75 crew were lost.

Early life and education

The youngest of eight children, Walter Harper was born in