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The List of Glacier National Park (U.S.) references identifies English language historic, scientific, ecological, cultural, tourism, social, and advocacy books, journals and studies on the subject of Glacier National Park (U.S.) topics published since 1870 and documented in Glacier related bibliographies and other related references.
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The following works deal with the cultural, political, economic, military, biographical and geologic history of pre-territorial Montana, Montana Territory and the State of Montana.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Glacier National Park.
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- ↑ Buffington, Robert A. "Glacier National Park - Montana". Robert A. Buffington. Retrieved July 28, 2021.
- ↑ Minetor, Randi (2016). Death in Glacier National Park: Stories of Accidents and Foolhardiness in the Crown of the Continent. Guilford, Connecticut: Lyons Press. pp. 37–38. ISBN 9781493025473.
