Great Northern 1970 Calendar

Perhaps trying to avoid the debacle of the 1968 calendar, Great Northern put a painting on its 1969 edition. For 1970, it went back to a photograph, but company executives admonished the local official who arranged the photo shoot, Tom Kotnour, not to “screw anything up.”

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Great Northern 1968 Calendar

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 field was peeing at the time the photo was snapped. The company hastily printed up a new calendar and attempted to recall the old one, but judging from the number sold on ebay, the recall wasn’t very successful.

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Of course, the figures are so small it is impossible to tell whether the boy is actually peeing or just had his hand in an unfortunate position when the photo was taken. I suspect the latter was the case, but you can judge for yourself in the close-up below. Continue reading

Great Northern 1967 Calendar

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 was the first railroad to buy one of these, calling it Hustle Muscle, and that locomotive has been preserved by the Great Northern Railway Historical Society.

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This is another calendar that is too big to scan, so the above image is a photograph.

Great Northern 1963 Calendar

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, so it made the top part more decorative.

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This calendar shows two passenger trains as well as eight freight trains at the top, plus a line of trucks hauling Great Northern-labeled trailers. I’d say the passenger trains were the Empire Builder and Western Star, but there are no dome cars to signify the former train. Continue reading

Great Northern 1958 Calendar

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 he joined his friend Eagle Tail Feathers in participating in dances and celebrations at Indian reservations throughout the United States and Canada; and he married Narrow Shield Woman.

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I can’t find any information about Spider, Acting Bear, or Narrow Shield Woman on line. I did find a 1950 painting of Mortimer Eagle Tail Feather, who appears to be about the same age as Spider. Continue reading

Great Northern 1956 Calendar

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 find any information about Cora Arkinson on the web, but a man named George Bull Child is pictured with other Blackfeet including Chief Wades in Water.

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The Blackfeet genealogy database says that George Bull Child married in 1911, but his wife died in 1913. He apparently married again, as he was reported as being married to a Gypsy Bull Child in 1932. Presumably, Gypsy was the mother of Cora Arkinson, who was born in 1928. Continue reading

Great Northern 1955 Calendar

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 name. Tom Many Guns, the person in this painting, was his son.

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According to the information under the calendar pad, Tom’s life was spent in less risky pursuits, including being in a Shirley Temple movie about encounters between whites and Indians during construction of the Canadian Pacific (he isn’t included in the cast list, but someone named Tom Spotted Eagle is listed, so perhaps the names were mixed up). He also helped make a motion picture about Blackfeet Indian sign language and recorded more than 100 Blackfeet songs for the University of Indiana Archives of Folk and Primitive Music. Continue reading

Great Northern 1952 Calendar

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 two people named Coyote Woman, both of whom were born in the early 1890s.

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The description adds that Burton was an “excellent student” at Browning High School and “proficient at hunting, fishing and competitive sports.” He was a member of Future Farmers of America and a Boy Scout. According to a web site, Burton lived to be 75 years old, dying in Oakland in 2009. This means he was born in 1934 and (as stated on the calendar) was 18 when this calendar was issued. Continue reading

Great Northern 1950 Calendar

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 father died in 1871 he apprenticed as a ship builder then returned to North America where he worked in New York, Winnipeg, and other cities before moving back to Montana. There he worked as a guide in the area that became Glacier National Park, leading, among other people, James J. and Louis Hill.

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What the calendar doesn’t say is that his full name was Thomas Erskine Dawson and his mother was a Blackfeet Indian named Susan Et’Stain, also known as Pipe Woman. The calendar may also be wrong about the year of his birth, as his gravestone says 1859 and that he lived until 1953. Continue reading

Great Northern 1949 Calendar

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 sang differently from any bird he had ever heard. So the baby was named Bird Sings Different.

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The decorations on the left side of this calendar show an Indian woman tanning and dying a buckskin and sewing garments from it. The ones on the right show her pitching a lodge. These are both things that the text beneath the pad says Bird Sings Different was proficient at. Continue reading