DescriptionCongress established Glacier National Park in 1910, after years of effort by George Bird Grinnell and others to preserve this unique northern Montana area from development by miners, homesteaders, and tourist entrepreneurs. The Great Northern Railway, led by Louis Hill, son of James J. Hill, lobbied for creation of the park with an eye to developing a series of luxury hotels there along its main line to the West Coast. The portion of the park east of the Continental Divide, in Glacier County, had been removed from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in the 1890s in the interest of opening exploration for copper ore. In 1900, most of the area that became the park was designated a forest reserve, closed to settlement but open to mining and logging.Personal NamesGrinnell, George BirdHill, LouisHill, James J.Contributing InstitutionMontana Historical Society Library and ArchivesGeolocation[1] CountyGlacier National Park
