GLACIER NATIONAL PARK 



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Doody, Howe Ridge and Trick Falls. Such names as 

 Going-to-the-Sun Mountain, Almost-a-Dog, Rising Wolf, 

 Piegan Pass, Two Medicine Lake and Red Eagle Pass, 

 taken from the Indians and their legends, suggest the 

 romance of an earlier time, contrasted with which such 

 names as Mt. Stimpson, Mt. Thompson and Spot Moun- 

 tain, seem about as appropriate as a bar room in a 

 cathedral. However, each succeeding administration 

 sees another Indian name taken from peak, lake or 



the north, was named after a curious and rather dis- 

 heartening experience of a man whose self-acknowledged 

 ability with the rifle had led him to retain the company 

 of an Indian on a hunting trip over the mountain. The 

 story goes that a large bear arose in the trail but a short 

 distance in front of the two hunters. The Indian was 

 of course unarmed and in the rear. The white man, 

 who, by the way, had married an Indian maiden, began 

 shooting at the huge target which was not a stone's 



AN ENORMOUS HANGING GLACIER 



To the west of Piegan Pass there is a canyon several thousand feet in depth. The western wall of this canyon rises abruptly and towers to a 

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along the trails through 



great height above the tr3>'to the Pass. The picture here shown well illustrates the type of hanging glacier which is so frequently encountered 

 th^ r-ark. 



glacier, and quietly enforces the substitution of the name 

 of some politician whose conception of his own impor- 

 tance seems only to stop short of an actual effort to 

 have the name of the pleiades changed to something 

 which is possessed of more vote-getting propensities. 



It is not always possible to trace the source and 

 origin of the names of these peaks and lakes, although 

 there is little doubt that most of the names given by the 

 Indians were prompted by either some legend or incident 

 which happened in the life of one prominent chief or 

 another. Fusillade Mountain, which lies at the head 

 of the St. Mary Canyon, and bounds Gunsight Lake on 



throw away. By the time he had fired all but one shell 

 he lost his nerve completely and turned to run. As he 

 rushed past the Indian in his precipitous flight, the latter 

 snatched the gun from the white man"s hand and shot 

 the oncoming bear through the heart with the last bullet. 

 The erstwhile white man had fired his ammunition so 

 rapidly that to those at the base of the mountain it 

 sounded like a veritable fusillade and the mountain was 

 known thereafter amongst the Indians as Fusillade Peak, 

 or, rather, by some word which, in their language, ap- 

 proximated the word fusillade as closely as possible. 

 The trail from St. Mary Camp or hotel over Gunsight 



