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

Historic Glacier National Park captures the most interesting moments in the park's history, the slices of life in northwestern Montana that provide an idea of what life was like for those who chose to explore this gloriously beautiful snowy corner of the United States. There's the presence...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Minetor, Randi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2016]
Temas:
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Glacier National Park (Mont.) > History.
Glacier National Park (Mont.) > Biography.
Glacier National Park (Mont.) > Histoire.
Glacier National Park (Mont.) > Biographies.
Montana > Glacier National Park
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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