I suppose they go up to the park every once in a while to have a look around.
I wouldn’t know about that.
How did Henry Momyer become Crater Lake’s first park ranger? What did he do after leaving the National Park Service in 1920? What did Ida Odell do in the park when she worked there in 1917?
Well, Momyer was the Indian trader at the reservation.
That part I didn’t know until I read it in your book.
Yes. His daughter, Ida, told me that her father was a man who had itchy feet. He never did like to stay in the same place very long. They lived in Oakland, California. I’m not sure but maybe he went to Oakland, California, after he worked for the park service. But he was always looking for something over the hill. She said he had itchy feet. He lived in two or three different places in California. He lived down on the Oregon border near Merrill. He had a store there and he moved from there to become Indian trader. He bought merchandise and he opened the store on the Indian Reservation.
At the agency….
Yes, at the agency. He sold it and then went into the park service. But she said he was the first uniformed ranger at Crater Lake Park.
He and Arant would both have a vest and they’d wear the interior badge.
I have a bigger picture of his face that’s a professional photograph. I looked for it, and I couldn’t find it in my files. I wondered maybe if I hadn’t given it to the park.
We do have a couple of pictures both of him and of Ida’s mother that are fair-sized photos.
I think I gave it to the park. I gave the park some other pictures, too.
