The Glacier Park Reader
The first and only anthology of key writings about Glacier National Park, this comprehensive collection ranges from Native American myths to early exploration narratives to contemporary journeys, from investigations of the park’s geology and biology to hair-raising encounters with wild animals, fires, and mountain peaks.
 
Soon after the park was established in 1910, visitors began to arrive, often with pen in hand. They included such well-known authors as mystery writer Mary Roberts Rinehart, historian Agnes C. Laut, fiction writer Dorothy Johnson, humorist Irvin S. Cobb, poet Vachel Lindsay, and artist Maynard Dixon—all featured in the book. Readers will encounter colorful characters who lived in and around the park in its early days, including railroad magnate and conservationist Louis Hill, renegade ranger and poacher Joe Cosley, bootlegger Josephine Doody, and old-time cowboy guide Jim Whilt. Blackfeet and Kalispel myths, politically charged descriptions by early explorers such as John Muir and George Bird Grinnell, and full-color reproductions of the illustrated letters of cowboy artist and Glacier resident Charles M. Russell are also included. 

Copublished with the Glacier National Park Conservancy.
The Glacier National Park Conservancy preserves the Park for generations to come. Learn more about our work at www.glacier.org

Part of the National Park Reader series, edited by Lance Newman and David Stanley
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The Glacier Park Reader
The first and only anthology of key writings about Glacier National Park, this comprehensive collection ranges from Native American myths to early exploration narratives to contemporary journeys, from investigations of the park’s geology and biology to hair-raising encounters with wild animals, fires, and mountain peaks.
 
Soon after the park was established in 1910, visitors began to arrive, often with pen in hand. They included such well-known authors as mystery writer Mary Roberts Rinehart, historian Agnes C. Laut, fiction writer Dorothy Johnson, humorist Irvin S. Cobb, poet Vachel Lindsay, and artist Maynard Dixon—all featured in the book. Readers will encounter colorful characters who lived in and around the park in its early days, including railroad magnate and conservationist Louis Hill, renegade ranger and poacher Joe Cosley, bootlegger Josephine Doody, and old-time cowboy guide Jim Whilt. Blackfeet and Kalispel myths, politically charged descriptions by early explorers such as John Muir and George Bird Grinnell, and full-color reproductions of the illustrated letters of cowboy artist and Glacier resident Charles M. Russell are also included. 

Copublished with the Glacier National Park Conservancy.
The Glacier National Park Conservancy preserves the Park for generations to come. Learn more about our work at www.glacier.org

Part of the National Park Reader series, edited by Lance Newman and David Stanley
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The Glacier Park Reader

The Glacier Park Reader

by David Stanley
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The Glacier Park Reader

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The first and only anthology of key writings about Glacier National Park, this comprehensive collection ranges from Native American myths to early exploration narratives to contemporary journeys, from investigations of the park’s geology and biology to hair-raising encounters with wild animals, fires, and mountain peaks.
 
Soon after the park was established in 1910, visitors began to arrive, often with pen in hand. They included such well-known authors as mystery writer Mary Roberts Rinehart, historian Agnes C. Laut, fiction writer Dorothy Johnson, humorist Irvin S. Cobb, poet Vachel Lindsay, and artist Maynard Dixon—all featured in the book. Readers will encounter colorful characters who lived in and around the park in its early days, including railroad magnate and conservationist Louis Hill, renegade ranger and poacher Joe Cosley, bootlegger Josephine Doody, and old-time cowboy guide Jim Whilt. Blackfeet and Kalispel myths, politically charged descriptions by early explorers such as John Muir and George Bird Grinnell, and full-color reproductions of the illustrated letters of cowboy artist and Glacier resident Charles M. Russell are also included. 

Copublished with the Glacier National Park Conservancy.
The Glacier National Park Conservancy preserves the Park for generations to come. Learn more about our work at www.glacier.org

Part of the National Park Reader series, edited by Lance Newman and David Stanley

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781607815891
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Publication date: 12/01/2017
Series: National Park Readers
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 366
File size: 20 MB
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About the Author

David Stanley is now retired after serving as professor of English at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, where he taught American literature and folklore and chaired the Environmental Studies Program. In the 1960s he worked on trail-maintenance crews in Glacier National Park for six summers. He and his wife Nan continue to visit and hike in Glacier on a regular basis. 

Table of Contents

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
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