Early Rangers of Glacier National Park
Published on 6. March 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-62545-158-3 (ISBN)
Description
Offers a comprehensive history of the early Park Rangers of Glacier National Park, exploring their lives, duties, and challenges.
In the pre-World War II era, Park Rangers patrolled Glacier National Park year-round, based out of ranger stations distributed unevenly around the park, protecting it from poachers and hunters as well as offering U.S.-Canadian border security and assistance to visitors. This book will be the first comprehensive, park-wide history of rangering, ranger life, dangers encountered by rangers performing their duties, and the men who were the Park Rangers in the early decades of Glacier National Park. The book will add to the knowledge of the rich cultural development of the park and its history through this unique examination of early rangers of Glacier National Park. The book contains dozens of historical photos of rangers at work, the ranger stations in which they worked, and the backcountry cabins in which they stayed when on patrol. Modern photos by the author illustrate the present-day environments in which rangers worked up to 100 and more years ago.
In the pre-World War II era, Park Rangers patrolled Glacier National Park year-round, based out of ranger stations distributed unevenly around the park, protecting it from poachers and hunters as well as offering U.S.-Canadian border security and assistance to visitors. This book will be the first comprehensive, park-wide history of rangering, ranger life, dangers encountered by rangers performing their duties, and the men who were the Park Rangers in the early decades of Glacier National Park. The book will add to the knowledge of the rich cultural development of the park and its history through this unique examination of early rangers of Glacier National Park. The book contains dozens of historical photos of rangers at work, the ranger stations in which they worked, and the backcountry cabins in which they stayed when on patrol. Modern photos by the author illustrate the present-day environments in which rangers worked up to 100 and more years ago.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62545-158-3 (9781625451583)
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Author David R. Butler retired to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 2019. He was a geography professor for thirty-seven years, the last twenty-two of those at Texas State University, where he was the Texas State University System Regents' Professor of Geography. He was a red bus "Gearjammer" in Glacier Park during his college days in the summers of 1973 and 1974 and has conducted research there since 1975. He has written several books on Glacier National Park, including Fonthill's The Civilian Conservation Corps in Glacier National Park, Montana; Early Photographers of Glacier National Park; Pioneering Women of Glacier National Park; and Cowboy Artist Charlie Russell and Glacier National Park; and Arcadia Publishing's Fire Lookouts of Glacier National Park.