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Fall 2016 ☐ Volume XXXI, No Voice of the Glacier Park Foundation ☐ Fall 2016 ☐ Volume XXXI, No. 2 100 Glacier Years atHistory Issue Lake McD Bill Daucks, Frank Geduhn, Esli and Harvey Apgar near Lake McDonald in 1901 (Ray Djuff Collection) In this issue: • Ranger Tales: An Anthology • A Rescue on Mount Siyeh • “Death on the Trail” Reynolds • The Capture of Joe Cosley • A Holdup at Glacier Park Lodge • The Night of the Grizzlies • E.J. Evensta, Builder of Many Glacier • Mr. Tippet’s Buffet • Jack the Germ • Bearing Fools Gladly • Dancing on the Tables: A Lake McDonald Reunion • Employee Life in the ‘40s • A Gearjammer Revue in 1950 • GPF’s History Project • Inside News of the Summer of 2016 An Ongoing Celebration of Glacier Park History The Glacier Park Foundation was alities. Glacier’s lodges and trails tried to convey the wonderful color of inspired by two great personalities, took on an air of romance and high personalities that renders Glacier (and both of whom spent more than five adventure from the stories that Ray every other tightly-bonded commu- decades in Glacier Park. One was Ian supplied. Every staircase had a sug- nity) so intriguing and so precious. Tippet, who hired thousands of young gestion of Camelot, every busload of In the past few years, we’ve enjoyed a employees and instilled them with a tourists seemed to have stepped out parade of centennials to help us focus powerful sense of community. The of a Dickens novel, and every hike in our work as Park historians. The Inside other was Ray Kinley, a storyteller to the backcountry felt like a foray into Trail covered Glacier’s centennial in the generations. Middle Earth. 2010 and the subsequent centennials Ray imbued the imaginations of Since its inception, the Glacier Park of five lodges. The Glacier Park Foun- employees with his tales of old days Foundation has sought to foster that dation helped to organize reunions in the Park – the fires and the floods, vivid historical sense. We’ve sought to at several locations. We published the escapades and the endeavors, and use picturesque storytelling to trans- Glacier from the Inside Out, a wonder- the endless array of colorful person- mit the history of the Park. We’ve ful anthology of stories still available on Amazon. We supplied many tales The Glacier Park Foundation was inspired by for One Hundred Years, One Hundred Stories, Glacier’s official centennial two great personalities, both of whom spent anthology. more than five decades in Glacier Park. One This issue embodies our long focus was Ian Tippet, who hired thousands of young on the history of the Park. We honor employees and instilled them with a powerful this year’s centennial of the National Park Service with “Ranger Tales,” an sense of community. The other was Ray Kinley, anthology of stories. We cover our a storyteller to the generations. project to develop historical hand- books for employees at all the lodges around the Park. And we offer many Glacier Park Foundation Officers: other vivid features. We hope you’ll P.O. Box 15641 John Hagen, President enjoy this issue. And thanks to all our Minneapolis, MN 55415 Carol Dahle, Vice President members for helping to transmit the www.glacierparkfoundation.org Mac Willemssen, Secretary legacy of Glacier Park! [email protected] Tessie Bundick, Historian Board of Directors: Jim Lees, Treasurer Joe Blair Laura Chihara, Webmaster The Inside Trail takes its name Mike Buck Rolf Larson, Inside Trail Editor from the famous old trail Tessie Bundick Laura Chihara which connected Glacier Janet Eisner Cornish Park Lodge with the vanished Brian Cross The Glacier Park Foundation was chalets at Two Medicine, Carol Repulski Dahle formed by Glacier Park employees Joyce Daugaard and visitors who have a deep love for Cut Bank, and St. Mary. The Ray Djuff this special place. The Foundation is name thus emphasizes the commited both to the importance Emily Trapp Hackethorn publication’s focus on the John Hagen of wilderness preservation and to the importance of places like Glacier Einar Hanson lore and history of Glacier as classrooms where people can Paul Hoff experience wilderness in intense National Park. We invite Mark Hufstetler meaningful ways, learning not only a submission of historical, Jeff Kuhn love for the land, but also a respect scientific, or anecdotal ar- Linda Young Kuhn that nurtures the skills necessary to Rolf Larson preserve that land. The Foundation ticles, commentary, poetry, Greg Notess has a special interest in Glacier Park’s or artwork for publication in history, traditions and visitor facilities. John Sauer future issues. Rick Taylor Mac Willemssen 2 ☐ Fall 2016 ☐ The Inside Trail RANGER TALES An Anthology of Park Service Stories (Albert Reynolds, National Park Service photo.) This year, 2016, is the centennial of the National Park Service. To mark the anniversary, we offer this anthology of ranger tales from Glacier National Park. They capture the color and variety of human experience in Glacier, as well as the enormous challenge of managing this complex National Park. By John Hagen (Many Glacier 1970- help on a portable telephone. A Park man from base jumping off Mt. 80) Service rescue team helicoptered to Siyeh and dying there in 2014.) Mt. Siyeh. They set a belay position A Rescue on Mt. Siyeh The rescue epitomizes the best tradi- on the peak with hundreds of feet of One of the most heroic episodes in tions of the National Park Service. rope. Ranger Charlie Logan rap- the history of Glacier was a rescue Charlie Logan had an illustrious pelled down the fearsome cliff to res- on the north face of Mt. Siyeh. That career, including many other rescues, cue the helpless man. The deed was face is a nearly sheer cliff of about responses to grizzly bear attacks, and daring and courageous, with perils of 3,500 feet above Siyeh Glacier and the capture of a sniper who fired at falling rock and of sharp projections the Cracker Lake basin. In 1997, a cars on Going-to-the-Sun Road. The that might have severed the rope. reckless adventurer “base jumped” Hungry Horse News quoted Logan as off the peak, deploying a parachute The rescued man pleaded guilty saying that rangers are called upon as he fell. The chute snagged an out- to violating federal law, since base to “protect the park from people, the crop of rock and left him dangling jumping is forbidden in the park. He people from the park, and the people helplessly on the cliff 400 feet below was fined $9,000 to cover the cost of from the people.” the summit. the rescue, placed on probation and The First Rangers temporarily banned from the Park. The man’s companions called for If ever foxes were hired to guard a (This example failed to deter another hen house, it was some of the origi- nal rangers hired for Glacier Park. If ever foxes were hired to guard a hen house, Joe Cosley and Dan Doody had it was some of the original rangers hired for been avid trappers before the Park was founded, and they were notori- Glacier Park. ous poachers afterward. The Inside Trail ☐ Fall 2016 ☐ 3 Diane Steele Sine worked at Many Glacier Hotel as a pantry girl and waitress 1980-1983. She has worked for the NPS as a seasonal ranger since 1984 and currently supervises the interpretive division at Many Glacier. “The Doodys had three stills on their ranch, and their booze became so popular that railway men would stop trains at Doody Siding and blow the whistle to number the quarts they wanted. Joe Cosley named lakes in Glacier Josephine Doody Joe Cosley after his lady friends [likely including Bertha, Glacier had rangers six years before Lois, Elizabeth and park boundary was assigned to one the National Park Service was orga- Helen]. particular man and he was respon- nized. Congress and President Taft sible for the patrolling of it, winter created Glacier Park in 1910. Major and even led poaching expeditions and summer, often operating from William Logan was appointed as its into the park.” small, crude cabins that would make initial Superintendent. Logan hired the present-day patrol cabins seem Joe Cosley had the Belly River area six rangers, including Cosley and like mansions. These men travelled (where he apparently named Cosley Doody, and assigned each man to pa- their beat alone, and many are the Lake and Cosley Ridge after him- trol a large sector of the Park’s border. tales of accidents, even deaths, result- self). He was a flamboyant personal- ing from these lone patrols through Doody had the Nyack area, where ity. Holterman relates: “He named the mountains in the dead of winter. he maintained a homestead. Jack lakes in Glacier after his lady friends One ranger froze to death on the Holterman’s Place Names of Glacier [likely including Bertha, Lois, trail between cabins on the eastern National Park relates of Dan and Elizabeth and Helen] and carved side of the park; another was buried his formidable wife Josephine: “The arrows through hearts on a trail of in a snowslide for twenty-four hours, Doodys had three stills on their trees. ... Tall and good-looking, he yet managed to dig himself out and ranch, and their booze became so sported mustachios and a goatee, a work his way back to the station; popular that railway men would stop red voyageur’s sash and earrings, and still another slid down a snow bank trains at Doody Siding and blow the the fanciest clothes his trapper’s skins and broke his hip, which resulted in whistle to number the quarts they would buy.” a grueling twoday trip back to his wanted.
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