"O/z, Ranger!" * * * * 11 



it was humiliating to have to scrub a geyser cone before a large and not 

 too friendly audience, and before the job was done he was angry all 

 through. He came to headquarters to protest about the tyranny of the 

 rangers. The superintendent happened to be out at the time and the 

 gentleman unburdened his anger, in abusive terms, to the assistant. 

 Finally he said : 



"Well, it's about what you'd expect from these rangers. They're 

 the dregs from the cities, out here in the mountains because they couldn't 

 make a living anywhere else." 



"Yes, I guess that's it," said the assistant, dryly. "That ranger who 

 made you wash the geyser never had a chance. He's nothing but a 

 grandson and a great-grandson of two presidents of the United States." 



The ranger was William Henry Harrison III, a Ninety-Day-Wonder 

 for the third consecutive summer. 



Of course, not many rangers can claim the distinctive background 

 of Ranger Harrison. They don't need to. It is not his distinguished 

 forbears that made Harrison one of our best rangers, but his willingness 

 to work, his devotion to duty, and his resourcefulness. The first requi 

 site of a good ranger is that he be a gentleman, which hasn't anything 

 to do with his birth or his family connections, but much to do with his 

 manner toward his fellow-men. As a matter of fact, most of the Old- 

 Timers are men who have worked their way up through the ranks, 

 many of them without the benefit of education other than that which 

 they have received in the mountains and the forests. 



A remarkable ranger is Sam Woodring, formerly chief ranger of 

 Yellowstone, now superintendent of the new Grand Teton National 

 Park, just south of Yellowstone. Woodring was an old army packer. For 

 years his job was to get supplies through to the outlying stations in the 

 Philippines. He was a packmaster on the Mexican border for General 

 Pershing, and was at Vera Cruz with General Funston. He came into 

 Yellowstone from the army in 1920 and joined the ranger force. He had 

 had charge of the army pack train in the park in 1915 and 1916. Ranger 

 Woodring was in charge of the pack train organized for President 

 Roosevelt when "T. R." was hunting wolves in Texas. Roosevelt was 

 but one of many notables with whom Woodring became fast friends 

 while out on the trail in the wilds. Two other presidents who intrusted 

 themselves to his care while out in the mountains were Warren G. Hard 

 ing and Calvin Coolidge. The Chief has made some remarkable winter 

 scouting trips in his day, and his life has been a round of adventure. Not 

 long ago he went to Glacier National Park to help Chief Ranger Carter 

 gain control of a raging forest fire near Lake McDonald. In the dense 

 forest, the two rangers and their squads were unable to see the fire, as a 



