"The Sun Singer" is set in a fictionalized version of Glacier National Park in the valley shown in this old painting. Robert Adams and his family stay at this hotel which was--in real life--built by the Great Northern Railroad in 1915.
The lake, called "Dancing Bear" in the novel, is really Swiftcurrent Lake. Robert hikes around this lake and crosses over the forested Glacial moraine (behind the flag pole) and that is where his adventures begin.
The prominent mountain in the background is Mt. Gould, renamed Housetop Mountain in "The Sun Singer." The swirl of rock just below Mt. Gould is the Angel Wing referenced in the book.
This year, Many Glacier Hotel's season extends from June 11 to September 23. The hotel is on the east side of Glacier National Park, 13 miles from the town of Babb. 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.
"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."
--Malcolm Campbell, The Inside Trail
