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Monday 11/09/2009
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Education :: Classes
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Wild River Pioneers
7:00 PM The Summit
Description:
WILD RIVER PIONEERS
Montana’s wildest river, the Middle Fork of the Flathead River, will be the subject of John Fraley’s audio-visual presentation to the Flathead Audubon Society on Monday, November 9. The Society meets 7 p.m. in the Community Room of The Summit at 205 Sunnyview Lane in Kalispell. Everyone is welcome.
Fraley’s recently-published book WILD RIVER PIONEERS is a series of true adventure stories that brings alive the exciting pioneer history of the Middle Fork drainage within Glacier National Park and the Great Bear Wilderness.
Fraley will talk about the natural history of the Middle Fork and present the story of a grizzly bear mauling and rescue high in the mountains in the Middle Fork drainage near Nyack. More than a century ago, prominent Philadelphia surgeon and Boone and Crockett Club member C.B. Penrose shot a white grizzly in a high, untracked backcountry basin below the mountain that now bears his name. This adventurer’s gunshot set in motion a chain of fate, bad luck and violence that came together in the naming of several Middle Fork mountains and streams and, by extension, the Great Bear Wilderness.
WILD RIVER PIONEERS grew from Fraley’s research and travels over the past three decades in the Great Bear Wilderness and Glacier National Park in the Middle Fork drainage. In his research, Fraley used over 200 sources in historical archives, old newspapers and family documents, and interviewed dozens of old-timers over a 20-year period. Coupled with site visits, this allowed the author to accurately reconstruct the events covered in the book. WILD RIVER PIONEERS was recently selected as a 2009 Leadership in History Award of Merit Winner by the American Association for State and Local History.
Fraley received wildlife degrees from both Montana universities. He has worked for Montana, Fish, Wildlife and Parks for 30 years, mostly in the upper Flathead drainage. His first book, A WOMAN’S WAY WEST, was published in 1998 and tells the story of Glacier National Park pioneers Doris and Dan Huffine.
Age Group: All Ages
Venue: The Summit
Address: 205 Sunnyview Lane in Kalispell
Phone: N/A
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