The Glacier Park Reader / edited by David Stanley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stanley, David, 1942- editor.

Series:

National park readers.

National park readers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals--Montana--Glacier National Park.

Animals.

Mountaineers--Montana--Glacier National Park--Folklore.

Mountaineers.

Indians of North America--Montana--Glacier National Park--Folklore.

Indians of North America.

Tales--Montana--Glacier National Park.

Tales.

Glacier National Park (Mont.)--History.

Glacier National Park (Mont.).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 356 pages :) illustrations, maps ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2017]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction / David Stanley

My introduction to the Blackfeet / Walter McClintock, 1910

My-stu-bun, Crowfeather Arrow's revenge / Percy Bullchild, 1985

The last great battle of Eagle Head : George comes at Night, 1978

The jealous women / James Willard Schultz, 1916

Mountain sheep boy / Peter Beaverhead, ca. 1959

From my reminiscences / Raphael Pumpelly, 1918

From sport among the Rockies : the record of a fishing and hunting trip in North-Western Montana / Charles Spencer Francis, 1889

The crown of the continent / George Bird Grinnell, 1901

From our national parks / John Muir, 1902

Lake Angus Mcdonald and the man for whom it was named / Helen Fitzgerald Sanders, 1910

From Avalanche / Albert L. Sperry, 1938

From Fifteen thousand miles by stage / Carrie Adele Strahorn, 1911

From Through Glacier Park : seeing America first with Howard Eaton / Mary Roberts Rinehart, 1916

From Hunting tonight : a chronicle of sport and adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains / Mary Roberts Rinehart, 1918

Two Medicine or White Magic Lakes / Agnes C. Laut, 1926

Carefree youth and dudes in Glacier National Park / Dorothy M. Johnson, 1975

Louis Hillâ's dream : Glacier National Park in 1915 / Dave Walter, 1985

The legendary Joe Cosley / Jerry DeSanto, 1980

From Exit laughing / Irvin S. Cobb, 1941

Letters from Bull Head Lodge / Charles M. Russell, 1906-1926

Bootleg Lady of Glacier Park / John Fraley, 2008

From Giggles from glacier guides / Jim Whilt, 1935

Climbing Red Eagle / Stephen Graham, 1922

Wanderings afoot / Norman Clyde, 1929

A forest fire explosion / H. T. Gisborne, 1929

From Grizzly country / Andy Russell, 1982

Grizzly encounters / Don Burgess, 1980

The black grizzly / Doug Peacock, 1990

Predator puma / Pat Hagan, 2006

From A beast the color of winter : the mountain goat observed / Douglas H. Chadwick, 1983

From Fate is a mountain / Mark W. Parratt, 2009

Fire lookout : Numa Ridge / Edward Abbey, 1977

Glacier National Park, Montana / Terry Tempest Williams, 2016

From The melting world : a journey across America's vanishing glaciers / Christopher White, 2013

North Fork : river (where I went in search of wildness) / Christine Byl, 2013

Waterton-Glacier : keystone of the Yellowstone to Yukon Corridor / Harvey Locke, 2015

In Glacier : sonata in earth minor / B. J. Buckley, 2014.

Notes:

"Glacier is a place of paradox, at once serene and violent, breathtakingly beautiful and somber, even sometimes almost ominous. Vibrant life thrives within the apparent calm of the scenery, and people from all walks of life come to the park and interact with each other, encountering the wilderness, learning its ways, and telling stories about their experiences. In this collection, I have put together a variety of those stories written between 1889 and 2016, along with Native American oral narratives of gods, animals, and men that date back much further. My intention has been to portray the park in all its diversity, richness, and beauty. I hope this collection does it justice."--Last paragraph of introduction.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

1-60781-589-3

OCLC:

1017610289