Historical Society spotlights park's past Glacier: A park with a past

If each year was a page, Glacier National Park's storybook would stack as high as 400,000 copies of the entire Harry Potter series.

Spanning 1.6 billion years, Glacier's tale is one of tremendous pressure, bubbling lava, rifts in the earth that separated even the hardest rock and diamond-sharp icebergs carving peaks and valleys.

But just as dramatic as the geologic narrative are the stories of the people who have relied on and protected its 1,800 square miles on the Rocky Mountain Front.

Next summer, Glacier National Park celebrates its centennial. The Montana Historical Society in Helena gets the party started Thursday with a massive new exhibit dedicated to the decades of park history.

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