The national parks portfolio . Photograph by U. S. Reclamation Service Clearing After the Storm PURCHASED FROM INDIANS NCE this region was the favorite hunting ground of the Blackfeet O Indians, whose reservation adjoins it on the east. It was thenpractically unknown to white men. In 1890 copper was foundand there was a rush of prospectors. To open it for mining pur-poses Congress bought the region from the Indians in 1896, but not enoughcopper was found to pay for the mining. After the miners left, few personsvisited it but big-game hunters until 1910, when it was made a national •^. ?
The national parks portfolio . Photograph by U. S. Reclamation Service Clearing After the Storm PURCHASED FROM INDIANS NCE this region was the favorite hunting ground of the Blackfeet O Indians, whose reservation adjoins it on the east. It was thenpractically unknown to white men. In 1890 copper was foundand there was a rush of prospectors. To open it for mining pur-poses Congress bought the region from the Indians in 1896, but not enoughcopper was found to pay for the mining. After the miners left, few personsvisited it but big-game hunters until 1910, when it was made a national •^. ? ? ^ i^ts.^^^^ Photograph by National Park Service ViouNT Oberlin from Granite Park, Showing the Noble South Wall on a Cloudy Day CREATURES OF THE WILD G LACIER, once thefavorite huntingground of theBlackfeet and now for fifteen L years strictly pre- served, has a large and grow- ^^bHI ing population of creatures of i^fli^H the wild. Its rocks and preci- M^^^Bt pices fit it especially to be the ^??H home of the Rocky Mountain ^H^^H sheep and the mountain goat. vHj^H Both of these large and ^^^^H hardy climbers are found in ^^^H Glacier in great numbers. ^^^^H They constitute a familiar .^^^Ih sight in many of the places ^^^^^H most frequented by tourists. ^^LM ^^H^HH^HH Trout fishing is particu- - ^ ^^Sm |tt|^pl.:^ ^^^^^^H larly fine. The trout are of 4H ^^B d^H^^H half a dozen western vari- 9^H ^H I^^^^^^H eties, of which perhaps the ^tHHI ^^ flH^^^H cutthroat is the most com- \ ^ H^^^^^i^^^^m mon. In Lake St. Mary the r LSi. ^^^M^^^^^H^H Mackinaw is caught up to
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