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Howard H. Hays (1883-1969) operated a transportation service in Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks. Hays was first employed by the Wylie Permanent Camping Company, which had operated a system of camps and stagecoach lines in Yellowstone National Park. In 1919 he became the president of the consolidated lodge and camp system called the Yellowstone Lodge Company. Hays retired from this position in 1924 due to illness, but after he regained his health in 1927, he organized and became president of the Glacier Park Transport Company, which operated a fleet of buses, cars and trucks at Glacier Park in conjunction with train service from Great Northern Railway. In 1955 Hays sold the Glacier Park Transport Company to Glacier Park Company. In 1929, Hays and his brother-in-law, George Mauger organized the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks Company which provided lodging and services in those National Parks. They maintained a controlling interest in this company until it was sold to the Fred Harvey Company in the mid 1960s.