Contents
Introduction / David Stanley
I. Native People
1. My Introduction to the Blackfeet / Walter McClintock, 1910
2. My-stu-bun, Crowfeather Arrow’s Revenge / Percy Bullchild, 1985
3. The Last Great Battle of Eagle Head / George Comes at Night, 1978
4. The Jealous Women / James Willard Schultz, 1916
5. Mountain Sheep Boy / Peter Beaverhead, Ca. 1959
II. Explorers
6. From My Reminiscences / Raphael Pumpelly, 1918
7. From Sport among the Rockies: The Record of a Fishing and Hunting Trip in North-Western Montana / Charles Spencer Francis, 1889
8. The Crown of the Continent / George Bird Grinnell, 1901
9. From Our National Parks / John Muir, 1902
10. Lake Angus McDonald and the Man for Whom It Was Named / Helen Fitzgerald Sanders, 1910
11. From Avalanche / Albert L. Sperry, 1938
III. Visitors
12. From Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage / Carrie Adele Strahorn, 1911
13. From Through Glacier Park: Seeing America First with Howard Eaton / Mary Roberts Rinehart, 1916
14. From Tenting Tonight: A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains / Mary Roberts Rinehart, 1918
15. Two Medicine or White Magic Lakes / Agnes C. Laut, 1926
16. Carefree Youth and Dudes in Glacier National Park / Dorothy M. Johnson, 1975
IV. Characters
17. Louis Hill’s Dream: Glacier National Park in 1915 / Dave Walter, 1985
18. The Legendary Joe Cosley / Jerry DeSanto, 1980
19. From Exit Laughing / Irvin S. Cobb, 1941
20. Letters from Bull Head Lodge / Charles M. Russell, 1906–1926
21. Bootleg Lady of Glacier Park / John Fraley, 2008
22. From Giggles from Glacier Guides / Jim Whilt, 1935
V. Adventurers
23. Climbing Red Eagle / Stephen Graham, 1922
24. Wanderings Afoot / Norman Clyde, 1929
25. A Forest Fire Explosion / H. T. Gisborne, 1929
26. From Grizzly Country / Andy Russell, 1982
VI. Animals
27. Grizzly Encounters / Don Burgess, 1980
28. The Black Grizzly / Doug Peacock, 1990
29. Predator Puma / Pat Hagan, 2006
30. From A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed / Douglas H. Chadwick, 1983
31. From Fate Is a Mountain / Mark W. Parratt, 2009
VII. Modern Times
32. Fire Lookout: Numa Ridge / Edward Abbey, 1977
33. Glacier National Park, Montana / Terry Tempest Williams, 2016
34. From The Melting World: A Journey across America’s Vanishing Glaciers / Christopher White, 2013
35. North Fork: River (Where I Went in Search of Wildness) / Christine Byl, 2013
36. Waterton-Glacier: Keystone of the Yellowstone to Yukon Corridor / Harvey Locke, 2015
37. In Glacier: Sonata in Earth Minor / B. J. Buckley, 2014
Acknowledgments
Timeline of Major Events in Park History
Further Reading
Sources and Permissions