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Early Days in Glacier Park Tells of Frank M Shannon Trip
Frank M. Shannon recalls his 1911 start as a young packer and guide in what is now Glacier National Park. He details the Gun Sight pass approach to St Marys Lake, camp life at Narrows Hotel, and rough freight work along the whisky trail toward Roebear and Fort Whoop Up.
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Glacier Park
Frank M. Shannon
Packer
Paradise
Ney Hele
Glacier National Park
Gunsight Pass
St. Mary’s Lake
Dead Horse Gulch
Coat Mountain
Narrows
Chief Mountain
Midvale
Glacier Park Station
St. Mary’s Creek
Old St. Mary’s
Hudson Bay Divide
Roebear
Blackfeet Indian Reservation
Fort Whoop-Up
Canada
Fort Benton
Montana
Alberta
Birch
Badger
Cut Bank
Milk River
St. Mary’s Creeks
Rockies
Blackfeet Indian
Northwest Mounted Police
Park
Two Medicine
Gunsight
Gunsight Lake
St. Mary’s
Thomas Dawson