admin | August 29, 2010
Disaster struck on the Great Northern Railway line on the southern edge of what would become Glacier National Park. The air brakes leaked on an eastbound freight train near Essex, and 28 cars detached from the engine. They rolled backward through the night — 17 miles down a steep grade, reaching an estimated 75-100 mph, [...]
admin | May 9, 2010
The Anaconda Standard, for one, came close to “breaking” the story of the new Glacier National Park. In a story datelined “Washington, May 11 (1910),” the day President William Taft put his John Hancock to a bill that had been wrangled over in Congress for two years, a special dispatch to the Standard said the [...]
admin | May 9, 2010
There was not a lot of fanfare surrounding the official creation of Glacier National Park on May 11, 1910, as Michael Jamison’s intriguing story in today’s Missoulian, “Glacier: A national park locals learned to love” related. But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t some local pride involved. Here’s an item from the Kalispell Inter Lake that [...]
admin | May 6, 2010
There may have been a week of more impact in Montana history than the one that began on Sunday, May 8, 1910. I’m not aware of it. President Taft signed Glacier National Park into being on May 12, and what stories that act has wrought. In Missoula, the electric streetcars, powered by the new hydroelectric [...]
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