Wild River Pioneers
Adventures in the Middle Fork of the Flathead, Great Bear Wilderness, and Glacier National Park
by John Fraley
published by Big Mountain Press
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Follow author John Fraley as he reconstructs the events surrounding the exciting pioneer history and spectacular landscape of the Middle Fork of the Flathead River Drainage in and around the Great Bear Wilderness and Glacier National Park. In Wild River Pioneers, Fraley brings alive the history of Montana's wildest river drainage by telling stories of some of its most riveting historical characters. The stories feature shootouts, murders, a hanging, a train robbery, marauding grizzly bears, lost graves, gold prospecting, and an ice cream-eating pet bear.
Although the Middle Fork of the Flathead is the geographical stage for these stories, many of the pioneers and events have broader connections and appeal. It's hard to find more quirky old-timers than Slippery Bill Morrison; Libby Collins (the Cattle Queen of Montana); Josephine Doody (the Bootleg Lady of Glacier Park) and her notorious Glacier Park Ranger husband, Dan Doody; and George Snyder (Glacier Park Maverick). In these stories, you'll learn the relationship these old-timers had with the land and with the government officials who tried to regulate them.
248 pages, 6 x 9 , 83 b/w photos, 1 map(s), index, 52 softcovers per case, Perfect Bound
softcover
ISBN 10:
ISBN 13: 9780962242885
$18.95
RELEASE DATE
09/15/2008
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John Fraley came to Montana as a teenager and received fish and wildlife management degrees from both Montana Universities. He worked for Montana's wildlife management agency for 40 years, mostly in northwest Montana's Flathead Country. He is an adjunct faculty member at Flathead Valley Community College, where he has taught wildlife conservation for two decades. He has written many articles for wildlife and western history magazines. John has done much of his fish and wildlife work, hunting, fishing, fur trapping, and exploring, in the Middle Fork of the Flathead Drainage, the Great Bear Wilderness and Glacier National Park. His previous book, A Woman's Way West (Big Mountain Press, 1998) tells the story of pioneering couple Doris and Dan Huffine in the Middle Fork and Glacier National Park area. John's children, Kevin, Heather, and Troy, accompanied him from one end of the Middle Fork backcountry to the other and have been an important part of his odyssey of researching and writing Wild River Pioneers. John, his wife, Dana, and their children live north of Kalispell within sight of the peaks of Glacier National Park. |
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