Written by Vanilla Sugar on October 18, 2008
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump may be UNESCO caliber but I would like to suggest that the Wahkpa Chu’gn Archaeological Site is a more authentic. What you see at this site is not protectively behind illuminated...
Written by btwood2 on October 12, 2007
- Last Chance Gulch is where it all began, the heart of old Helena. For it was here that four guys known locally as the Four Georgians, though there's some speculation that there may have...
Written by btwood2 on October 8, 2007
- We spent the better part of an afternoon nosing around historic Reeder's Alley, at the south end of Last Chance Gulch. At first glance, it doesn't look like much. A conglomeration of mismatched buildings...
Written by btwood2 on June 18, 2007
- It was the waterfalls that took Meriwether Lewis’s breath away in the summer of 1805. "I saw the spray arise above the plain like a column of smoke… It soon began to make a roaring...
Written by btwood2 on June 18, 2007
- There are hundreds of pis'kun (buffalo jumps or bison kill sites) throughout North America. Pishkun means "deep blood kettle" or "gathering place" in Blackfoot language. Indigenous people gathered here roughly between 900-1500 A.D., before the...
Written by btwood2 on June 18, 2007
- Don Fish, Blackfeet guide at Ulm Pishkun Visitor Center, showed us the skeleton of a prairie rattler. "They’re pretty slow moving, not very aggressive," he said. I was glad to remember his words as I...
Written by btwood2 on June 18, 2007
- Called Black Eagle Spring by the Blackfeet Indians, these lovely clear-blue cold springs were re-discovered by Captain Meriwether Lewis in June 1805. He described it as "the largest fountain I ever beheld". Subsequent 1880s settlers...
Written by btwood2 on February 20, 2007
- The eastern portion of the famed Going-to-the-Sun Road is where you really get to see what glaciers are capable of. Their awesome icy power is now mostly a thing of the past in this park...
Written by btwood2 on February 20, 2007
- We probably wouldn’t have returned to the town of East Glacier Park if it hadn’t been for forgetting to pick up our mail as we were driving through on our way up. Since we’re full...
Written by btwood2 on January 28, 2007
- The 52-mile long Going-to-the-Sun Road bisecting Glacier Park is rightfully famous. Brainchild of park superintendent William Logan, serious construction on this road between west and east Glacier began in 1921. Eleven years later (1932), the...
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