Bob McIntyre, Jr served as a member and chairman of the Mountaineers History Committee in the 1990s and early 2000s. He brought to the committee extensive knowledge of Mt Rainier National Park history. Bob was involved in preparation, with park staff, for the Mt Rainier National Park centennial in 1999. Following the centennial, Bob donated a collection of historical materials to The Mountaineers. The collection was reviewed, reduced in size, and accessioned into the Mountaineers Archives by Lowell Skoog in 2025. A Seattle Times obituary for Bob (deceased on October 2, 2025) can be found here.

Bob McIntyre, Jr

Box 1 of 2

Press Releases

[These papers are in a manila folder labeled “News Releases, Press.doc”). Some of the following papers have several versions. Most are one or two pages in length and were written in 1999.]

Bailey Willis and the Northern Pacific Railroad
Civilian Conservation Corps
Creation of Mt Rainier National Park
Fay Fuller: First Woman to Climb Mt Rainier
Keeping the Wildlife Wild
Our Active Mountain: Geological Events
Our Need for Quality Wilderness
Path to Recreation
People Need a Park
Public Treasure
Transportation to Mt Rainier
Vancouver’s Sighting and Naming of Mt Rainier
Why Climb Mt Rainier

More Press Releases

[These papers are in a white envelope labeled “Mt Rainier - History, Mountaineer History Collection.” An inserted page says that these press releases were prepared by Bob McIntyre, Jr.]

Campaign to Establish MRNP (1893-1899)
CCC History and Work at Mt Rainier
The Civilian Conservation Corps
The Creation of Mt Rainier National Park
Fay Fuller
Keeping the Wildlife Wild
The Longmire Family at Mt Rainier
Mt Rainier National Park is 100 Years Old
Marine Corps Plane Crash
Our Active Volcano: Geologic Events
Our Need for Quality Wilderness
A Path to Recreation
People Need a Park
Public Treasure
Spring at Mt Rainier
Mt Tahoma, The Provider
Timeline of Events Leading to the Birth of Mt Rainier National Park
Transportation to Mt Rainier
We Are Descendants of the Pioneers
Why Climb Mt Rainier
Winter at Mt Rainier

Manila Folders

Mountaineering in the Pacific Northwest (an essay on early mountaineering). Folder includes notes on Fay Fuller and Alma Wagen.
Correspondence with Steve Gibbons, MRNP Centennial Coordinator
Climbing Equipment, including specific items held in the Tacoma Public Library
Correspondence with Paul Robisch of the Mountaineers Library Committee
MRNP Centennial Mar 2, 1999(planning papers for Centennial celebration on that date)
MRNP Centennial Notes (loose-leaf)
- Preservation, Recreation and the Railroads (1860s-1890s), 25pp
- Mt Rainier Bibliography, 21pp
- 16th-19th Century National Park Building Blocks, 13pp
- Chronological notes from 1912 to 1981, 22pp
MRNP Centennial Puzzlers
- Who Is and When Did It Happen? 6pp
- Trivia, 4pp
HC Members (History Committee rosters and contact info, 1992-2005)
Timeline (preliminary notes from 1899-1999 labeled by reviewer Ann as “Magnificent! Stupendous! Unbelievably Wonderful and Awesome!”
“Skoog, Lowell” - Email printouts (circa 2000) between McIntyre and Skoog related to ski history research and the idea of reviving the Mountaineers Annual.

Manila Envelope

Centennial Home Page (papers related to 1999 Mt Rainier NP centennial website):

Timeline: 1899-1999
Themes and timeline, 1940s
Email printout from McIntyre to John Gallager with 17pp centennial timeline
Centennial Timeline printed out from website: mtnrainier100.com on 23 April 1999 (24pp)

Box 2 of 2

Compact Disk (CD)

Includes a list (MS-Word file) of selected Mountaineer Bulletin articles from the 1910s sorted by author’s name. (Click document below to view.)

VHS Videotape (labeled “Bill Butler”)

The subject of the tape is Bill Butler, a legendary ranger on Mt Rainier for over 30 years. In November 2025, the tape was transferred to MOV and MP4 digital files by Lowell Skoog at Victory Studios in Seattle. The tape contains an episode of the TV program, This is Your Life, hosted by Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1960. The MOV and MP4 files have been stored in The Mountaineers Digital Archives (in the folder “Mountaineers/Movies”) with the following filenames:

MTR.2025.9 - BillButler_ThisIsYourLife.mov [9 Gbytes]
MTR.2025.9 - BillButler_ThisIsYourLife.mp4 [2.5 Gbytes]

Notes for the Bill Butler video:

Surprise guests on the TV program include “Spud” Bill (former assistant superintendent at Mt Rainier), Butler’s wife and two sisters, mountain rescuer Ome Daiber, a Mrs. Romisky, whose lost daughter was found by Butler, and Forbes Wilson, a skier rescued from an avalanche by Butler.
Mentioned in the video are Butler’s birth in Tennessee, his volunteering on an early rescue during which he walked to Mt Rainier from Seattle, the 1931 recovery of Robert Zinn, the 1936 search and recovery of Delmar Fadden, and a plane crash on the Tahoma Glacier.
Butler was appointed as a permanent ranger by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1936 and he eventually rose to become Assistant Chief Ranger. He turned down promotions in order to keep working in the field.
For his appearance on the television program, Butler received the gift of a Ford Falcon station wagon.

Miscellany

Obituary for Bob McIntyre from Seattle Times, Nov 16, 2025, page D6.
Certificate of Achievement: Ascent of Mt Rainier, issued to Bob McIntyre, Aug 17, 1981.
Walker, Harriet, Around Mount Rainier with The Mountaineers, 1930: A Letter from Harriet K. Walker to her Family, The Mountaineers (History Committee), Seattle, WA, 1998 (65pp, two copies).
65th Anniversary, National Park Service, Aug 25, 1981 (18pp).
National Park Service: The First 75 Years, Eastern National Park & Monument Association, 1990 (64pp).
Tahoma: A guide to Mount Rainier National Park and its centennial celebration, Tacoma News Tribune, (76pp).
Recreational Areas of the United States (under federal or state administration), 1948. (42” x 32” color map including National Parks, Forests, Historic Sites, Recreation Areas, Indian Reservations, Wildlife Refuges, State Parks, and major highways.)
Molenaar, Dee, “Astronaut’s Vista” Pictorial Map of Mt Rainier National Park, Washington, 1996.
Molenaar, Dee, “Astronaut’s Perspective” Pictorial Map of Mt St Helens Country, 1981.
Molenaar, Dee, “Astronaut’s View” Pictorial Map of Washington State, 1996.
Mt Rainier, Washington, USGS topographic map (scale 1:125,000), 1928 edition, reprinted 1945. (Map is glued to a cloth backing.)

MTR.2025.9 Bob McIntyre Collection