The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-04-17
Noted Dudes Are
Mighty Fine Folks,
Says Glacier Guide

o WIren 1ia ond r paiA oS Su,tte tha p Go;n up
of the great industrial. social and po-
litical leaders of the United States, it
generally means more to them than 1t
does to the average person.
In many cases the guides have be-
come well enough acquainted with these
people who make front page news to
call them by their first names or even
by a nickname that the guide has given
them by eaSon of some incident that
happened on a mountain trail, while
guiding them.
These men, some of whom direct the
activities OF many thousands of per-
a good guide, even to being told to go
to bed or what time to get up in the
morning.
An experienced guide is rated by the
number of noted persons that he has
guided on trips into the mountains,
able men are trusted with such parties.
Virgil Dillon, to the dude" world,
Buster, recently promoted from the
trail to the job of foreman for the
Park Saddle Horse Co. spoken Of by
guides as the Bar K Six outfit be-
cause of the brand that is used on the
company's 700 head Of horses, last
Roosevelt Boettiger, daughter of Pres
ident and Mrs. Roosevelt, and her hus-
band.
The B~oettigers came into Glacier
park unannounced in late August last
summer and drove to the hotel camp,
names were hidden from view in the
hotel register and only a few park en-
ployes knew they were more than Or
binary tourists.
Dillon was chosen as the guide to
look after the presidents daughter and
her husband.
They sure wasn't hard dudes to
handle" he says.
About all I had to do was 70 ride
that lead out of Two Medicine. The
first day I took them to the top of
Dawson pass, the next time over the
old Paradise trail and then up the Dry
Fork trail to the Lake of the Winds,
where I caught the fish for the pres
ldents party the summer before.
After we had made a trip over
good horsemen and able to care for
themselves in any emergency that
might arise, so I just turned them
loose to go when and where they
pleased.
1T isn't strange that people who
went to and from Two Medicine didn't
find out they were humping elbows with
the Big Chiefs daughter, for the
Boettigers would ride into the corral
and unsaddle their horses, like they
were part of the crew.
They acted the same a about
n employees; They learned to call them
by their first lanes in a good fellow
manner: For the reason that the en-
Dloyes did not know who these friend
~ guests were, the Boettigers were
taken in as part of the gang.
They not only were not followed
and stared at by all the tourists that
came to Two Medicine, they enjoyed
n warm friendship of all the camp,
which they would not have been able
to do II the help had known who they
were. 1t seems that most people have
people,"
Buster reached into his pocke5 for
aret, continued:
chummy with dudes. They kind of get
what you would call under the spell
OF the mountains They will sit around
a campfire at night and the first thing
you know they are telling you things
they wouldn't tell their own mothers.
But take them as a whole, If you
are willing to overlook some of the odd
ways that they don't seem to be able
to help having, I have found them to
be mighty fine people"
Dillon is breaking a bunch of saddle
horses now for the H-Hanging-T out
ut, located at the mouth of the Marias
river, but he is looking forward to the
opening of the Glacier park tourist sea-
son SO he can get back to work in the