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Logan Pass

Glacier National Park, in partnership with the University of Montana and Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, will continue mountain goat research activities this summer in the Logan Pass area. The three-year research study began late summer of 2013 to identify ...

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Civilian Conservation Corps Garages

The Civilian Conservation Corps equipment sheds and the associated boulevard lie on both sides of the wide median in the maintenance yard. Construction of the sheds began in 1941. The sheds were originally built to store the heavy equipment used ...

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Employee Dormitories and Mess Hall

The first park dormitory and mess hall were completed in 1927. The second dorm was built by Civilian Conservation Corps Crews in1933-34. The Civilian Conservation Corps was active from 1933-1942 and was comprised of young men who were out of ...

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Granite Park Chalets/ Many Glacier Hotel

By 1915 Granite Park Chalets and the Many Glacier Hotel were completed and opened for business; this completed and put into operation the major portion of the Great Northern Hotels in the park. These, along with the private hotels and ...

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Marias Pass

From west of the divide, the group most frequently associated with Glacier National Park is the Tobacco Plains Band, once located near Eureka, Montana. These people hunted and quarried workable stone (chert). Linguistically and culturally, these people, the Kootenai (spelled ...

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Sperry Trail

Dr. Sperry, a professor from the University of Minnesota, arrived in the park in 1895. Upon hearing about the lake and glacier, he became interested and organized a party to explore the area .It was at this time that the ...

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Atlyn Peak

In 1900, Coincident with and mainly due to the development of the Cracker Lake Mine, a small boom town sprang up at the mouth of Canyon Creek near the head of Sherburne Lake. This town, named Altyn, after Dave Greenwood ...

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Ahern Pass Trail

In 1809, Lt. George P. Ahern was ordered to take a detachment of soldiers and explore the mountains north of Marias Pass. The party consisted of Ahern, a detachment of Negro soldiers from the 25th Infantry, Professor G. E. Culver ...

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Blackfeet Reservation (Ceded Strip)

The Nitsitapii (“real people”), collectively called the Blackfoot, comprise three distinct groups: the Blackfoot or Siksika, the Blood or Kainai, and Piegan or Piikani. The collective use of the names Blackfoot in Canada and Blackfeet in the United States developed ...

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Calcite Springs

This grouping of thermal springs along the Yellowstone River signals the downstream end of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. The geothermally altered rhyolite inspired the artist Thomas Moran; his paintings of this scene were among those presented to Congress ...

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