Glacier National Park, The First 100 Years | 
| Author: Carol W. Guthrie
Publisher: Farcountry Press
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: First
Pages: 168
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Dimensions (in): 12 x 10.7 x 0.9
ISBN: 1560373369
Dewey Decimal Number: 978.652
EAN: 9781560373360
ASIN: 1560373369
Publication Date: September 5, 2008
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The story of Glacier National Park has been millions of years in the making.
Visit the land before it was a park, when the Blackfeet, Kootenai, Gros Ventre, Assiniboine, Pend d Oreille, and Bitterroot Salish tribes called the Crown of the Continent home. Experience this place when the Blackfeet first acquired horses and guarded the passes and hunting grounds from rival tribes. See the land as the Kootenai did when they held their spiritual ceremonies at the foot of today's Lake McDonald.
Witness the collision of cultures as Guthrie chronicles the arrival of the explorers, traders, and railroad barons—and the rush of settlers moving west.
In 1910 Glacier National Park was designated a national park, and it has undergone astonishing changes in the past 100 years. From the Great Northern Railway's Swiss-style chalets and lodges to the glorious Going-to-the-Sun Road, from the park's tragic first fatal grizzly attacks to its designation as an International Peace Park, Biosphere Reserve, and World Heritage Site, Glacier National Park has a story unlike any other.
Official licensed product of the Glacier National Park Centennial
Published in partnership with the Glacier Natural History Association
Features more than 240 paintings and historical and contemporary photographs, as well as 6 colorful maps
Covers the geologic and human history of the area, from American Indian tribes to early settlers, and details the first 100 years since Glacier was designated a national park
Includes an extensive 4-page Time Trek of events from prehistory to the present
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A remarkably in-depth survey of the history of Glacier National Park from 1900 to 2000 December 9, 2008
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
Part American History chronicle, part photography compendium, The First 100 Years is a remarkably in-depth survey of the history of Glacier National Park from 1900 to 2000. Featuring more than 200 vintage black-and-white or stunning full color photographs, The First 100 Years also has detailed text chronicling the park's astonishing and colorful history. A chronology, bibliography, and index round out this captivating volume, highly recommended especially for public library collections due to its wealth of historical information balancing quality photographs on virtually every page.
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