Glacier Book Club

This is the January 27, 2027 Glacier National Park Conservancy Book Club selection. Register for the Zoom book club discussion with special guest, Zach Block.

In April 1946, newlyweds Dan and Gerane Block left Milwaukee for an old homestead near Trail Creek in the North Fork of the Flathead, six miles south of the Canadian border on the western edge of Glacier National Park. With no electricity, plumbing, phone or radio, the young couple built a cabin and made a living by trapping, fishing and raising mink, weathering hard winters, lost horses and frozen pipes along the way. Part memoir and part nature journal, Trail Creek is Dan’s own account of those years and his reflections on what wilderness means. Dan went on to teach biology at the University of Montana Western for more than two decades. Years after his death in 2016, his grandson Zach Block found the typed manuscript among family keepsakes and, with help from North Fork historians, brought it to print.