According to Edwina Noffsinger, Blacky Dillon was another wrangler that George Noffsinger would fire every year and then hire in the spring because "some dude had written and wanted him. All of these unreliable people were charming, you know."

Blacky Dillon was a wrangler at Many Glacier. He had a thick black beard and was said to almost always smell of horse manure and alcohol. He also had a terrific flair for the theatrical. Blacky would burst through the doors of the Many Glacier Hotel wearing a long, black operatic cape that he would sweep about him as he paraded toward the bar. A tourist once asked, "Blacky, where did your get your costume?" Indignant, Blacky answered in his best Shakespearean voice, "Lady, this is no costume! These are my clothes!"

Blacky also had a hand in Many Glacier's only recorded riot. He and two cowboys were drinking late one evening in the downstairs bar. The cowboys were getting rowdy, and the security guard asked that they finish their beers by midnight and leave. Blacky was ready to do just that, but the cowboys ignored the guard. The infuriated guard whisked the bottles away and was promptly attacked by the cowboys. Five airmen who were seated nearby and several hotel employees leaped into the fight—on the guard’s side of the ruckus. Blacky considered himself a peaceable fellow and crawled under a table. During a lull in the fight, the cowboys escaped. They were captured later when they returned to beat up Blacky for not coming to their assistance.

Blacky was hired and fired every year for decades. When he was too old to wrangle, he drove a fourhorse "tally-ho" the three miles between the Many Glacier Hotel and the Swiftcurrent Auto Camp. One day, a slightly inebriated and somewhat bored Blacky cracked his whip on the horses' rumps, sending them into a wild gallop. The several elderly ladies who were tossed about the coach screamed in terror until Blacky finally pulled the runaway horses to a stop. During the fiasco the tally-ho struck and damaged the wrangler boss's new car. He didn't take it very well, and poor Blacky was fired for the last time.

Blacky Dillon left Glacier and lived out his remaining years performing as a stagecoach robber at Knott's Berry Farm in California.

-from Chapter Six: Dazzling First Decade as a National Park, 1910—1919