Glacier National Park 



By Mark Daniels 

 Former Superintendent of National Parks. 



GLACIER is the only park in our system of 

 National Parks which is purely Alpine in char- 

 acter, and its forests seem to justify the contention 

 on the part of those who live in Montana that Glacier 

 National Park put the pine in Alpine. It is situated 

 in the northwestern corner of Montana and is traversed 

 in a northerly and southerly direction by the main crest 

 of the Rocky Mountains. The continuation of this range 

 into British Columbia constitutes the Canadian Rockies 

 and the scenic area in the vicinity of Banf which has 

 been set aside by the Dominion Government as a Cana- 

 dian national park. It might incidentally be added that 

 this same Canadian Government Park has received an 

 appropriation several times larger than that which has 

 been set aside by the United States Government. As 

 a result, the number of citizens of the United States who 



are familiar with the beauties of the Canadian Rockies in 

 the vicinity of Lake Louise and Banf far outnumber 

 those who know of the equal beauties of Glacier. 



The area now within the boundaries of Glacier Na- 

 tional Park was at one time possessed by the Blackfeet 

 Indians and was part of their reservation, the remaining 

 portion of which is contiguous to the Park on the 

 eastern border. The Park, of course, is not the only 

 thing which the Government has taken from the Indians. 

 However, the little game of "robbing the Indians" is 

 not properly part of the subject matter of an article 

 on National Parks, even though the discussion of its 

 fascinating phases might be justified in view of the 

 fact that, properly administered and developed, this par- 

 ticular holding, which was once part of the Blackfeet 

 Indian Reservation, might be put to a more utilitarian 



MAJESTIC PEAKS CONFRONT THE TOURIST 

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streams of snow and ice water trickle to the lake below. 



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