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Frank Pinkley:
Arches was named by Frank Pinkley, then Superintendent of Southwestern National Monuments. "The Boss," as he was affectionately known, visited the Windows in 1925 to evaluate the area for inclusion in the National Park system. With the support of many others, the Monument was established in 1929, and the new monument fell under his administration. At the time of his death in 1940, Pinkley was in charge of 27 park areas, including Arches, in four states.
While many of the monuments under his care were "one-man outfits," watched by a part-time custodian, some monuments had no one assigned to them. Pinkley was frustrated by the fact that support for monuments lagged behind the funding for units designated as national parks and he continually pushed for funding to properly staff the monuments. |