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Title: Over the trails of Glacier National Park
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Dillon, Tom
Subjects: Glacier National Park
Publisher: (St. Paul, Minn.) : (Great Northern Railway)
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Queen's University - University of Toronto Libraries

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Picture shows comparative height of the Woolworth Building, New York City,750 feet, and Mt. Jackson 10,023 feet. GLACIER NATION A L PARK 11 gasps and says nothing; the young tourist breaks into an incoherent rhapsodythat falls flat, and silence soon becomes the sign of his appreciation. A launch, with a grizzled old mountaineer incongruously at the wheel,is waiting at the wharf to take us to Glacier Hotel. Straight toward halfa dozen castellated peaks the little craft heads, and for an hour the city-bredpassengers marveled at the blue of the depths, the green of the banks, and thefang-like mountain tops, whose reflections fell all about us. Glacier Hotel was the real starting-point of our journey through the park.It is the outpost of the white shirt, the stiff hat and the hobble-gown. They areseen here fraternizing with the blue flannel, the sombrero and the divided skirt.The telephone stops here, and the newspapers venture no further. World affairsbecome trivial alongside of the sele

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