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Early Rangers of Glacier National Park
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  • ISBN: 9781625451583

Early Rangers of Glacier National Park

Author(s): David R. Butler
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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.



ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
David R. Butler retired in 2019 as the Texas State University System Regents’ professor of geography, and a university distinguished professor, at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. He was a geography professor for thirty-seven years, the last twenty-two of those at Texas State University. 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 two books on Glacier National Park, including Fire Lookouts of Glacier National Park in Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America series.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781625451583
FORMAT: Paperback
PUBLISHER: America Through Time
DATE: 12/01/2024
STATE: Montana
IMAGES: 200
PAGES: 128
DIMENSIONS: 6.75 (w) x 9.75 (h)
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