Mather's love of the parks was highly personal: he had found that time in nature helped him ward off the bouts of depression to which he was prone. Stephen Mather was the first director of the ...

Stephen Mather and Bob Yard met as cub reporters for the New York ... He amassed a fortune but still grew restless, itching for a higher purpose. Wilderness had always inspired Mather. Born in San ...

Albright, as much as his boss and mentor Stephen Mather, was responsible for molding the national parks into a unified system after the creation of the National Park Service in 1916. Stephen ...