Great Northern issued calendars with two different photos in 1968, but it wasn’t planned that way. After this calendar was printed up and distributed, someone in Great Northern’s headquarters noticed that it looked like one of the boys in the … Continue reading
Great Northern introduced Big Sky Blue in 1967, but when the calendar was made it was still proudly painting its locomotives Omaha orange and Pullman green. The photo on this calendar shows several of the railway’s new SD45 locomotives. GN … Continue reading
In the 1950s, Great Northern added route maps to the bottoms of its shippers’ calendars, keeping the Rocky logo at the top. Having discontinued the Indian calendars after 1958, GN sent the simpler calendars to both shippers and passenger agents, … Continue reading
This appears to be Great Northern’s last calendar that featured a Winold Reiss painting. Unfortunately, the information under the pad tells us little about Spider, the subject of the painting, other than he was the son of Acting Bear; that … Continue reading
The painting on this calendar is titled Buckskin Pinto Woman. The text under the pad says she also went by the “modern” name of Cora Arkinson and that her father, Bull Child, helped entertain tourists in Glacier Park. I can’t … Continue reading
During a raid on a Crow party whose main goal was to steal horses, one Blackfeet brave focused instead on stealing as many guns has he could. From then on, he was known as Many Guns, which became his family … Continue reading
According to the text hidden under the calendar pad, Nobody Has Pity on Me was also named Burton Bear Child, son of Louis Bear Child and Coyote Woman. Neither Bear Child is in the Blackfeet genealogy database, but there are … Continue reading
The information under the calendar pad says the man in the portrait, Tom Dawson, was born in Fort Benton, Montana in 1862. When still a boy, he went with his father, a Scot named Andrew Dawson, to Scotland. After his … Continue reading
According to the information under the pad, Blackfeet babies were traditionally named by the tribal medicine man. When the woman in this painting was born, the medicine man went for a walk and returned saying he saw a bird that … Continue reading
The description of the painting under the pad notes that “Dancing Boy, whose family name is Calvin Last Star,” is “the most accomplished young dancer among the Blackfeet.” Naturally, the borders of the calendar show a young Indian dancing. Click … Continue reading
