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Autore |
Minetor Randi |
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Historic Glacier National Park : the stories behind one of America's great treasures / / Randi Minetor |
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Guilford, Connecticut : , : Lyons Press, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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ISBN |
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1-4930-1807-8 |
1-4930-1808-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (209 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Glacier National Park (Mont.) History |
Glacier National Park (Mont.) Biography |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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