OBSERVATIONS ~sseltsw.-E.-s.-T THE CALL OF THE THE C.M. RUSS EL L MUSEUM MAGAZINE TheMuseum created a new hands-on family gallery as part of the SUMMER 2002 MOUNTAINS: Trails to the Future expansion campaign. Russell 's West Discovery MUSEUM BOARD OF DIRECTORS JAYNE McMANUS , PRESIDENT Gallery opened on December 15, 2001. This new Gallery is a very GENE THAY ER, VICE PRESIDENT Louis Hill and Glacier National Park different kind of place for the Museum-it is a special interactive gallery CAROL MUNGA S, SECRETARY TOM LUND, TREASURER designed for families to explore together through recreated CHARLES ABERNATHY MII\E PARKER BOB DOERK STEVE POTTS By Larry Len Peterson environments, role playing with Western props, an art activity area, a ELLIOTT DYBOAL ROBERT RASMUSSEN DANIEL EWEN MAR ILYN ROSE CD-ROM computer station, and a special printed Family Guide to take PAT THOMPSON FRANTZ TH ERESA W RYAN SUSAN R. HUMBLE DAVID B. SOLBERG home. JANIS M . JACKSON DIANE VOLK WAYNE LINN ELL WILLARD WEA VER The Russell's West Discovery Gallery introduces an area in the ELIZABETHA. McGREGOR MARK WIDSETH BARBARAMOE KITTY WRIGHT Museum where it's OKAY to TOUCH! It is a place where families and MUSEUM NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD children can discover for themselves some of the most important HOBERT RASMUSSEN , Cl IA/RM.AN Fairfield, Iowa influences for Charles M. Russell as an artist, writer, and cultural THERESA W. RYAN , VIC E CHAIRMAN historian of Montana and the West. We hope families will visit again and Hamilton, Montana CHRISTI NA HOOVER BLACKWELL, SECRETARY again to enjoy the variety of activities offered on a daily basis. Portland, Oregon ROBERT C Bl.ANZ The exhibit areas in Russell's West Discovery Gallery explore the Pecosl~ey, Michigan major themes and influences in Charles Marion Russell's work through C. W ILLIAM BRKiGS Shorewood, Minnesota recreated environments about early explorers and trading posts, PETER J. BRIX Northern Plains Indian life and culture, cowboy life, wildlife, Russell Milwaukie, Oregon F KELLYCLAY painting "puzzles, " a make-it-take-it activity area, reproductions of Worland, Wyoming W LEE COFFEY Russell sculptures for hands-on exploration, and a CD-ROM station with Ardmore, Oklahoma information about Russell and the West during the time Russell lived. WILLIAM COWAN Havre, Montana The Gallery interprets a window of time between 1850 w 1880-a J. MICHAEL DADY period of many transitions for the people and land of the West. There Minneapolis, Minnesota JAN B DAVIDSON are several murals of Russell's work connected to the exhibits that help Great Falls, Montana THOMAS DECKER facilitate discussion and learning about how the people, objects, and Sun Lakes, Arizona PHILIP C. DRESCHER activities portrayed are tied to things visitors can do themselves. Each Ventura, California of the exhibit areas has props and reproduction objects which visitors JANE HIBBARD Great Falls, Montana can use in the activities. Descriptive label copy helps to facilitate family C.M. HUNTER and group programs and explains each of the activities. Fairfax, Virginia ROBERT E. LEE The Museum would like to thank all the people, businesses, Hayden Lake, Idaho THE HONORABLE JUDY MARTZ foundations, and organizations whose support helped make this Gallery Helena. Montana possible! Funding for interpretive materials and the Opening Weekend E .T. MEREDITH III Des Moines , Iowa Activities was provided by the James S. Fish Family Foundation. THOMAS PETRIE Additional support for the Gallery's development has been provided by Denver, Colorado WERNER H. QUASEBA RTH the Sally Ann and Henry J. Peres Jr. Fund of the Museum's Educational Nokesville, Virginia GINGER K. RENNER Endowment. Funding for the Cowboy Camp area was provided by the Paradise Valley, Arizona Harding Family, in memory of Joan Harding. JUDY SIEBEL Ross, California Creation of the CD-ROM for the Gallery was made possible through (from left) Charlie Russell. Austin Russell (Charlie's nephew), Skookum, Marie Sappington (Skookum·s mother) and Nancy Russell. circa 1913, ASHTON B.T. SMITH. JR. courtesy of Jim and Fran Combs, Great Falls the generous support provided by the James S Fish Family Foundation, West Chester, Pennsylvania DAVID B SOLBERG Ronald McDonald House Charities and Ronald McDonald House Billings , Montana PATRICIAH. STEELE Charities of Montana, U.S. West Foundation, and an anonymous Polson, Montana foundation donor. The publication of the Russell's West Discovery VICTOR STEIN For good reason , George Bird Grinnell is known as Long Lake, Min nesota The"Call of the Mountains" is a real call. For the father of Glacier National Park. Grinnell , Gallery Family Guide has been made possible by a grant from the GEORGE T. STEINER Plymouth , Minnesota centuries man has been drawn to Glacier Country. Joseph N. Blankenbaker Foundation. conservationist and editor of Forest and Stream, with JESSIE VAN NESS Without a doubt, this land of pristine mountains, And last , but certainly not least , we want to thank all the many Lake Forest, fllinois tireless effort fought for Park status that finally came to JAMES B. WALLACE alpine lakes, and cascading waterfalls is a national fruition in. Along the way, he and other authors like donors to the Trails to the Future campaign, whose support enabled the Denver, Colorado ~Russell"s West" is a semiannual publication or the CM. Russe ll Museum. 400 13th treasure. From the beginning, artists have expressed James Willard Schultz, William McC!intock, and Frank expansion of the Museum to the marvelous facility we have today! All Street Nonh. Great Falls. Montana 59401. (406) 727 -8787. www.cmrussell .org copyright 2U0L _ All rights reserved . Repro duc_ii_on_in whole or in part \:'l~hout wrilten its wonders in varied and effective ways. Some of Bird Linderman captured a passing way of life. Some of these contributors had the foresight to envision the C.M. Russell permission is strictly prohibited . No resp ons1b11ity1s assumed for unsohc 1ted material. All illustrations are from the C.M. Russell Museum's permanent collections America's most outstanding talents have answered the Museum as a major arts and cultural center-not only for Great Falls, un le5s otherwise noted Subscriptions to "Russ ell's West " are a benefil of member· were educated at the finest schools in the East while membership director for informat ion . Send $4.00 plus S 1.25 "Call" capturing in print , paint, photography , and three but for the whole state and nation. Our deepest thanks goes out to all of handling per copy to The Museum Shop to purchase indiv idual copies the only education others received was that provided dimensional art the beauty of the land, its animals and them! by growing up in Glacier country. Their rendering of C.M. Russell Museum native people. Charlie Russell spent every summer ,~-;-,. 400 13th Street North Indian life had a broad appeal across an America that •. · Great Falls, Montana 59401-1498 from 1906 to 1 926 at Bull Head Lodge on beautiful was nostalgic for the Old West. But books and =~ TEL 406-727-8787 FAX 406-727-2402 www.cmrusse ll.org Lake McDonald in the Park. magazine articles weren't enough. Some lectured The Call of the Mountains: Louis Hill and Glacier National Park Larry Len Peterson throughout profits, the hoped that in out of it and America and Great Northern the long run, the confine ourselves abroad bringing to added the company would strictly to the thousands the beauty luxurious Empire realize a tidy profit. business of getting of Glacier and its Builder. It was obvious to Hill; people there. " native people. With initial just entice more and Despite his words , If George Bird Grinnell service in 1929, the more visitors. Aware of Glacier had already is the father of Glacier, then Empire Builder, was the need to increase public stolen his heart, and Louis Louis Hill is the godfather. His without doubt one of Louis recognition of Glacier, he was not about to abandon it. father, James J. Hill, was one of Hill's finest triumphs. It allowed began commissioning artists for Indeed, it was his father's initia l the richest and most powerful men in travel across the Northwest in a advertising campaigns. Although influence that prompted legislation America who through tireless effort style and elegance that no other rail many gifted individuals worked on finally securing National Park status for created the Great Northern Railway. Seeking his service was able to offer. When Louis Hill various projects, four men in particular became Glacier in 1910. As with the Canadian Pacific own legacy, Louis spent much of his time as President took over for his father, the Great Northern precedence forever linked with the Great Northern and Glacier Railway in Banff and the Northern Pacific in of the Great Northern building lodges, chalets and for excellence did not falter. However, Louis's real National Park. Painters John Fery and Winold Reiss, Yellowstone, the Great Northern maintained complete other infrastructure that represents man's presence in interest lay not with arrival and departure times, but and photographers Fred H.Kiser and Tamar Jacob control over Glacier. the Park as we know it today. Hill, somewhat of an with developing the infrastructure necessary to lure Hileman received the most recognition for their Hill was born the second of three sons to one of artist himself , recruited dozens of artists to create rail travelers and other tourists to Glacier National unique depictions of either the scenic splendor of the richest and most powerful families in Am erica. work to adorn the buildings and to publicize the Park. With rail lines in place, and passenger trains Glacier or the native Blackfeet who lived nearby. Educated at Exeter and Yale, he joined the Great attractions of Glacier.