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Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2016]

1 online resource (209 pages)

ISBN 9781493018086 (e-book)

ISBN 9781493018079

ISBN 9781493018079 (pbk.)

Print version: Minetor, Randi. Historic Glacier National Park : the stories behind one of America’s great treasures. Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2016] ISBN 9781493018079

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.

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(OCoLC)944957979