"The Sun Singer" is set in a Glacier National Park in the Swiftcurrent Valley shown in this old painting. Robert Adams and his family stay at Many Glacier Hotel built by the Great Northern Railroad in 1915.
The lake shown here is Swiftcurrent. Robert hikes around this lake and crosses over the forested Glacial moraine (behind the flag pole) to Lake Josephine, and that is where his adventures begin.
The prominent mountain in the background is Mt. Gould, with the Garden Wall to the right. The swirl of rock just below Mt. Gould is the Angel Wing referenced in the book. The mountain on the far right of the painting is Grinnell Point.
Glacier National Park celebrates its centennial in 2010 with a full schedule of events. Many Glacier Hotel's season extends from June 4 to September 20. The hotel is on the east side of Glacier National Park, 13 miles from the town of Babb. If you're at the hotel between July 29 and August 1, 2010, you'll find the hotel employees reunion in progress!
If you would like to explore the shining mountains of the Sun Singer's world, click here for more information about the historic hotels and park events and services. Click on the NPS logo below for additional Glacier Park details.
My article about the park's Swiftcurrent Valley appears in Vanilla Heart Publishing's "Nature's Gifts" anthology to be released March 15.
"Give at least a month to this precious preserve. Time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will indefinitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal”
--John Muir
“Be wise and listen,” said the Sun. “I am the only chief. Everything is mine. I made the earth, the mountains, prairies, rivers, and forests.”
--Blackfoot Legend in Blackfoot Lodge Tales by George Bird Grinnell
"Water, wind and ice shape and reshape the rocky spectrum of limestone, quartzite, diorite, and argillite that stretches from valley floor to mountain summit. The wonders of this rock unfold along every trail. East of the divide, thousands of hikers stop below the face of Going-to-the-Sun Mountain, Natósi-áitapo, where some say the creator of these mountains watches over his world from within the living stone."
