Glacier national Park

THIS Saturday, May 11th, will mark the 5th annual National Train Day, a date chosen to mark the anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike out in Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the 1st transcontinental railroad in the United States...

I'll be up at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby again this evening (Tuesday) at 6 right after I get done having fun on the Puffman Show this afternoon. We're currently enjoying reading, "Glacier From the Inside Out", & the past couple of Tuesdays, we've been reading a section entitled "Glacier's dragons: floods & fire". I don'...

Sounds like a name for a Philadelphia law firm...either that, or a collection agency! It's not...Luther Schutz & Kendall Flint is a musician/doctor team who will be performing blues tunes tomorrow (Sunday) evening at the 2Med Coffee House over in East Glacier Park. Th...

Amtrak ridership has hit RECORD levels! Good news for our Empire Builder indeed. Amtrak ridership increased in the 1st 6 months of this year, with ridership in March setting a record as the SINGLE BEST MONTH in AMTRAK's history! Ridership GREW 0...

I'm ready to take a road trip over to Glacier & ride one of those red jammers! I'm also ready to head up to the Marias Heritage Center this evening (Tuesday) to read more "Montana History" as we continue with our book, "Glacier From the Inside Out". I ...

I'll be back up at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby this evening, Tuesday, to read more of that good old "Montana History". Thank you to Marie Ostrem who filled in for me last week. Tonight, we'll continue reading our great Glacier Park book, "Glacier From the Inside Out"...

My good friend Marie Ostrem will be sitting in for me this evening (Tuesday) to read "Montana History" up at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby. "Montana Marie" will continue with the great book that we're been enjoying the past couple of weeks, "Glacier From the Inside Out"...

WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. (AP) — Captive bears at the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center near West Yellowstone earn some of their keep by testing containers for manufacturers seeking certification that their product is bear resistant. Facilities manager Randy Gravatt tells KTVM-TV that the center's bears all were captured after accessing unnatural or unsecured foods, making them ideal product testers

I'll be back up at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby reading "Montana History" again this evening (Tuesday). Recently it was reported that the infamous Going To The Sun Highway would be opening later than normal this year due to the government "sequester" but I guess some bucks came through to open the famed highway at the usual time this spring...

That's what we're doing these Tuesday nights during "Montana History" at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby. Last week, we started the book, "Glacier From the Inside Out-Best stories from The Inside Trail". The individual stories in this book edited by Ray Djuff & Chris Morrison are 1st person accounts covering a century of park history as told by those who know glor

Last week on my Puffman Blog, I blogged that we would FINALLY reading the final chapter in the book we're currently reading during "Montana History" Tuesday evenings up at the Marias Heritage Center. I was wrong! This sago will never end! Actually it should & it WILL(!) t...

We'll be drawing the curtain on author Donna Gray's extraordinary stories of Montana ranch women this evening (Tuesday) at the Marias Heritage Center in our "Montana History" reading. I think we have all enjoyed the book, "Nothing To Tell" & it turns out these 12 old ranch women DID have a lot to tell & after some 237 pages, I think we have heard it all! The bo... Read