Historic Glacier National Park : the stories behind one of America's great treasures /
Minetor, Randi,
Historic Glacier National Park : the stories behind one of America's great treasures / Randi Minetor. - 1 online resource (209 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Glaciers: then, now, and forever -- The first people to see Glacier -- Lewis and Clark and the very bad day -- The trouble with treaties: Hellgate, Fort Benton and the Swan Valley Massacre -- Hugh Monroe and the Hudson's Bay Company -- The search for a passable pass -- See America first: the Great Northern Railway -- The cattle (and mining) queen of Montana -- George Bird Grinnell discovers a glacier -- Rugged rangering: the last days of Joe Prince -- Lyman Sperry and the last of the firsts -- Creating an engineering masterpiece: Going-to-the-Sun Road -- The path of the Civilian Conservation Corps -- Days and nights of the grizzlies -- Fighting fire the old-fashioned way.
9781493018086 (e-book)
Glacier National Park (Mont.)--History.
Glacier National Park (Mont.)--Biography.
Electronic books.
F737.G5 / M56 2016
978.6/52
Historic Glacier National Park : the stories behind one of America's great treasures / Randi Minetor. - 1 online resource (209 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Glaciers: then, now, and forever -- The first people to see Glacier -- Lewis and Clark and the very bad day -- The trouble with treaties: Hellgate, Fort Benton and the Swan Valley Massacre -- Hugh Monroe and the Hudson's Bay Company -- The search for a passable pass -- See America first: the Great Northern Railway -- The cattle (and mining) queen of Montana -- George Bird Grinnell discovers a glacier -- Rugged rangering: the last days of Joe Prince -- Lyman Sperry and the last of the firsts -- Creating an engineering masterpiece: Going-to-the-Sun Road -- The path of the Civilian Conservation Corps -- Days and nights of the grizzlies -- Fighting fire the old-fashioned way.
9781493018086 (e-book)
Glacier National Park (Mont.)--History.
Glacier National Park (Mont.)--Biography.
Electronic books.
F737.G5 / M56 2016
978.6/52