Download or read book First Rangers The Life and Times of Frank Liebig and Fred Herrig Glacier Country 1902 1910 written by C. W. Guthrie and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special breed of adventurer, the first forest rangers were among the explorers, mountain men, lawmen, and pioneers who made America. First Rangers details the exploits of two of these men, told mostly in their own words. Written in the saddle while riding along the trail, or on a log at camp, or at a table in a dimly lit cabin, these stories bring to life a bygone era. “Their stories, to paraphrase Don Bunger, Liebig’s neighbor and friend, will never happen again to anyone, for the conditions are not here anymore to produce them,“ writes author C. W. Guthrie. Part journal written by the men themselves and part carefully researched biography illustrated by fascinating historic photos and documents, First Rangers celebrates two men who were, as Guthrie puts it, “. . . heroes of their era. Liebig as the first forest ranger in what became Glacier National Park built the first ranger station, patrolled over a half-million acres, led numerous wildfire fights and saved at least three lives that we know about. Herrig, who met Theodore Roosevelt while working as a horse wrangler in Medora, North Dakota and later on at Roosevelt’s ranch in the Badlands, joined the Rough Riders and was with Roosevelt in the 1898 Battle of San Juan Hill—the decisive battle of the Spanish-American War.” Frank Liebig and Fred Herrig’s job was to stop wildfires, timber thieves, squatters, and poachers. Supremely suited to their work, Frank and Fred were skilled woodsmen, natural leaders, and men of rare courage and integrity who entered their careers at a time when “. . .becoming a forest ranger was simply to be handed a badge, a rifle, some ammunition, a crosscut saw, and paper to write reports on as your told, ‘Go to it and good luck!’” According to Guthrie, the book is about more than the heroics and adventures of these brave and forthright men. “It is also a love story of several kinds. It is, of course, about Liebig and Herrig’s love of their adopted country, of a good challenge, of the wilderness, and of the Forest Service they served. But ultimately, it portrays their love of the women they chose to share their lives in this wild place and the love of the children to whom they passed on their hard-won knowledge of and abiding affection for the wilds of Glacier country.” Their legacy lives on in their families, in the park's protected wild lands, and in the ethos of today's forest and park rangers.
Download or read book The First Ranger written by C. W. Guthrie and published by Redwing Pub. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FIRST RANGER is rare bits of history, told by the men who lived it. These first forest rangers were among the explorers, mountain men, lawmen & cowboys in the making of America. Filled with anecdotes of rugged living & honorable men when the job training consisted of "Go to it & good luck." THE FIRST RANGER is the biography of Frank Liebig & his comrade Fred Herrig. Frank Liebig was the first ranger in the land that became Glacier National Park. He tells of his adventures as a ranger & hunter in the Northwest. Fred Herrig was a friend of Theodore Roosevelt & the first ranger in Montana's Flathead Forest Reserve & the Kootenai Forest. Fred Herrig tells about his lifelong friendship with Theodore Roosevelt & passes on stories of Roosevelt as a rancher in the Dakota Badlands. The book contains photographs of rangers at work at the turn of the century, seven letters signed by Theodore Roosevelt & is nicely illustrated. A fast, fun read. Excellent book for anyone interested in history & a humorous tale & for bookstores, libraries, museums & gift shops. For additional information: Redwing Publishing, P.O. Box 460448, Huson, MT 59846. (406) 626-4438. For orders: contact our distributor: Bookmasters, Inc., 1-800-247-6553.
Download or read book Montana written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forthcoming Books written by Rose Arny and published by . This book was released on 1996-06 with total page 3088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Days in the Forest Service 50th anniversary ed written by United States. Forest Service and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Backcountry Ranger in Glacier National Park 1910 1913 written by Norton Pearl and published by L. Lee. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Backcountry Ranger written by Leslie Lee and published by . This book was released on 1994-06-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pony Express written by Carol Guthrie and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-12-22 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Orphans preferred” was the call that went out to the daring of heart when the Pony Express was organized nearly 150 years ago in April 1860. Called “The Greatest Enterprise of Modern Times,” the endeavor—which lasted only nineteenth months—recruited young men willing to risk life and limb in a relay race that crossed the frontier on a route from St. Joseph, Missouri, to San Francisco, California, speeding the delivery of mail to an astonishing ten days. The Pony Express combines the legends and lore of this remarkable mail service with contemporary photography and archival images and documents from the past, and celebrates the sesquicentennial of the start—and end—of those daring rides, which ended with the completion of the transcontinental railroad. It is a befitting tribute to an American icon whose legacy is marked to this day by Pony Express museums all along the route from Missouri to California.
Download or read book Rangers Trappers and Trailblazers written by John Fraley and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North, Middle, and South Forks of the Flathead River drain some of the wildest country in Montana, including Glacier National Park and the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex. In Rangers, Trappers, and Trailblazers, John Fraley recounts the true adventures of people who earned their living among the mountains and along the cold, clear rivers in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Here are the stories of the intrepid Glacier Park Ranger Clyde Fauley and his young family using a cable bucket to reach their isolated cabin across the Middle Fork, trapper Slim Link’s fateful meeting with a grizzly bear in the deep woods of the North Fork, and the life and times of Henry Thol, “the ranger’s ranger,” who happily snowshoed hundreds of miles through deep snows and minus-40 cold to patrol the South Fork wilderness. Tragedies and near-misses abound: a fatal shootout, tangles with bears and packrats, a devastating train wreck, and a missing airplane. But these are balanced with tales of courage, endurance, and remarkable personal achievement. Fraley tells all in intriguing detail wrested from primary sources.
Download or read book Going to the Sun Road written by C. W. Guthrie and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traveling Glacier National Park's Going to the Sun Road is an experience like no other. Laborers toiled for nearly 20 years to complete the 50-mile road that winds an impossible route through the heart of Glacier. One of the most scenic highways in the world, this marvel of engineering set the standard for all national parks. C. W. Guthrie tells the intriguing tale of the history and the construction of the epic Going-to-the-Sun Road. 60 color and black-and-white photographs.
Download or read book Forty Years a Forester written by Elers Koch and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elers Koch, a key figure in the early days of the U.S. Forest Service, was among the first American-trained silviculturists, a pioneering forest manager, and a master firefighter. By horse and on foot, he helped establish the boundaries of most of our national forests in the West, designed new fire-control strategies and equipment, and served during the formative years of the agency. Forty Years a Forester, Koch’s entertaining and illuminating memoir, reveals one remarkable man’s contributions to the incipient science of forest management and his role in building the human relationships and policies that helped make the U.S. Forest Service, prior to World War II, the most respected bureau in the federal government. This new, fully annotated edition of Koch’s memoir offers an unparalleled look at the Forest Service’s formative ambitions to regulate the national forests and grasslands and reminds us of the principled commitment that Koch and his peers exemplified as they built the national forest system and nurtured the essential conservation ethic that continues to guide our use of the public lands.
Download or read book Heroes of the Bob Marshall Wilderness written by John Fraley and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow author John Fraley as he traces the lives and times of past and present heroes of the Bob Marshall Wilderness, from old-timers like Joe Murphy, to Smoke Elser, and on to the present. Over the past century, these heroes have ridden, packed, and hiked from one end of the Bob to the other, and they’ve helped make the wilderness what it is today. You’ll ride along on horse and mule treks and wrecks, and discover the sport of trout wrangling. You’ll meet the fluorescent hunter, White River Sue, and the black-clad backpacker. You’ll battle packrats, fish-eating deer, tricky bears, and a tree-hugging criminal. Sit back and read about a dog rescue, smokejumper adventures, kids raised in the wilderness, and the first study of grizzlies in the Bob. Witness a tense moose-lassoing rodeo, and meet a backcountry rooster named Bob Marshall, the first live chicken to attempt a traverse of the Bob. The heroes in this book have ridden and hiked hundreds of thousands of miles through the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex. Now, come along with them and celebrate their contributions, their challenges, and their fun times.
Download or read book Grizzly Babies written by and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows grizzly bear cubs as they play, swim, and explore.
Download or read book Forest Service Administration written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Woman s Way West In and Around Glacier National Park 1925 to 1990 written by John Fraley and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doris Ashley left Iowa and came to Montana as the frontier era came to a close and the hard transition to the modern West began. In 1925, already a widow at the age of twenty-four, she took a job as “cheap help” in Glacier National Park and thus began a lifelong affair with Montana’s landscape, wildlife, and people. Doris soon met the love of her life, native son Dan Huffine, another park worker with an abiding love for the region. Together, they shared many adventures over the next sixty years, helping to shape the character of northwest Montana and participating in the growth of Glacier Park on both sides of the Continental Divide. Between them, the Huffines shared stints as backcountry park ranger, driver of the classic red tour buses in the park, and cook for the crew that did the perilous work surveying the famous Going-to-the-Sun Road. The couple operated tourist camps along the Glacier Park boundary and became co-proprietors of the Huffine Montana Museum. Many people considered the couple endearingly eccentric, and for good reason, as they kept skunks, badgers, coyotes, bears, a mountain goat, and a beaver as pets. The Huffines were also world-class raconteurs, and enjoyed telling their tales later in life to author John Fraley, who shared their love of the outdoors and of Glacier Park. Using many hours of tape recordings, numerous journals, and a great deal of research, Fraley has pieced together the story of Doris’s early life in Iowa, her fateful meeting with Dan, and their love story, which is also very much a work story—a tale of building a life together while at the same time helping to shape the “Crown of the Continent” region.
Download or read book Death Survival in Glacier National Park written by C.W. Guthrie and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2017-09-06 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -
Download or read book All Aboard for Glacier written by C. W. Guthrie and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glacier National Park and the Great Northern Railway became synonymous in the early 20th century. Original photographs, posters, menus, postcards, and other rare materials support this fascinating pictorial history of the creation and promotion of the park by Great Northern as railroad barons raced west and competed for precious territory to expand their empires.
