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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813167003321

Autore

Minetor Randi

Titolo

Historic Glacier National Park : the stories behind one of America's great treasures / / Randi Minetor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Guilford, Connecticut : , : Lyons Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-4930-1807-8

1-4930-1808-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 pages)

Disciplina

978.6/52

Soggetti

Glacier National Park (Mont.) History

Glacier National Park (Mont.) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.