[GLACIER] Holtz, Mathilde Edith; Bemis, Katharine Isabel

Glacier National Park, Its Trails and Treasures [SIGNED]

New York: George H. Doran, 1917.

First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 263 pp, indexed, illustrated from photographs; map endpapers. Original green cloth boards lettered in gilt, with mounted illustration on front board.No dust jacket. Inscribed by Katharine Bemis and dated in the year of publication on the front free endpaper. Light rubbing to corners, spine ends, spine slightly sunned, paper over front hinge cracked. Otherwise sound and clean. The authors traveled extensively by horseback in the Park's backcountry before writing first full-length guide to Glacier (which became a National Park in 1910), with information on lodging, trails and roads, lakes and glaciers, wildlflowers, and local Blackfoot history and lore. There is also a rather amusing chapter on "Types of Tourists."

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