PURCHASED FROM INDIANS

NCE this region was the favorite hunting ground of the Blackfeet Indians, whose reservation adjoins it on the east. It was then practically unknown to white men. In 1890 copper was found and there was a rush of prospectors. To open it for mining purposes Congress bought the region from the Indians in 1896, but not enough copper was found to pay for the mining. After the miners left few persons visited it but big-game hunters until 1910, when it was made a national park.

CLEARING AFTER THE STORM Photograph by H. T. Cowling

BLACKFEET INDIAN CAMP ON TWO MEDICINE LAKE Glacier National Park was once their hunting ground Photograph by H. T. Cowling