| The Rocky Mountain goat was the symbol
and logo for the Great Northern Railroad. The main line of the Great Northern
Railway stretched across the country, but it was the sixty-mile stretch
of rail from east of the Rockies through Montana's Marias Pass and along
the Middle Fork of the Flathead River – that bordered the grandeur
and breathtaking scenery of what would become Glacier National Park. Glacier
National Park and the Great Northern Railway became synonymous in the early
20th century. Original photographs, posters, menus, postcards, and other
rare materials support the fascinating pictorial history of the creation
and promotion of the park by Great Northern. In my travels through Glacier,
I have painted and photographed mountain goats in this pristine National
park, and I always have felt that the rugged Rocky Mountain goat with his
snowy white coat a fitting mascot of the “Great North”. |
