Charles Alexander Sheldon

Charles Alexander Sheldon (17 October 1867 – 21 September 1928) was an American conservationist and the "Father of Denali National Park".^[1] He had a special interest in the bighorn sheep and spent time hunting with the Seri Indians^[2] in Sonora, Mexico, who knew him as Maricaana Caamla ("American hunter").^[3] Another favorite haunt was the lakes and rivers which later became Kejimkujik National Park in Nova Scotia where Sheldon built a cabin at Beaverskin Lake.^[4]

In December 1905, Sheldon was elected member of the Boone and Crockett Club, a wildlife conservation organization founded by Theodore Roosevelt and George Bird Grinnell in 1887.^[5] He died on September 21, 1928, in Nova Scotia while on his annual stay at his cabin where he spent much of his final years.^[6] The Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge in northwestern Nevada is named in Sheldon's honor, as is Mount Sheldon in Denali National Park.