Over the trails of Glacier National Park . a whole, will never be a place for a coach-and-four or the honkingautomobile. An automobile road ha» been built along the level stretches east ofthe mountains. It is a beautiful trip, but the inner recesses will ever be for thesaddle and the sturdy pedestrian. When the aeroplane is a household attachmentthe mountain ponies will still be footing the Whiskey trail as they did two hundredyears ago; and from their backs men and womenwill talk of that mysterious highway of a dim,distant past, which can be still traced to thejungle of Central America. There
Over the trails of Glacier National Park . a whole, will never be a place for a coach-and-four or the honkingautomobile. An automobile road ha» been built along the level stretches east ofthe mountains. It is a beautiful trip, but the inner recesses will ever be for thesaddle and the sturdy pedestrian. When the aeroplane is a household attachmentthe mountain ponies will still be footing the Whiskey trail as they did two hundredyears ago; and from their backs men and womenwill talk of that mysterious highway of a dim,distant past, which can be still traced to thejungle of Central America. There was a trail there for man and beast when the Romans i were building roads to Britain. It was therewhen the first Hudson Bay fur-hunters peeredthrough the passes, and since then many ahard-pressed man has raced with death over the Great Northern Railway forms anirregular southern boundary of this park, it hasadopted it as its own, and not entirely for Here is the backbone of the continent and thelittle and big beginnings of
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