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This book examines the fashion by which the Great Northern Railway used the image of the plains-dwelling Blackfeet Native Americans to sell the romantic as well as western image of the relationship the Blackfeet had with the mountainous environment of Glacier National Park, Montana. Examples of artwork and photography sponsored by the Great Northern are presented that evoke a harmonious relationship between Glacier Park and the Blackfeet, all to entice visitors to use the Great Northern Railway to get to the park and use the tourist facilities there built by the Great Northern. Methods by which the Great Northern exploited the Blackfeet presence--both in the park and across the country--to attract visitors to Glacier National Park are also examined.

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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.

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