Entry - August 8, 1936

6.30 P.M. Being that today is Saturday we cleaned out our tent today. I went into town today and had a pretty fair time. The certainly is some nice lookers in the town of Kalispell.

Robert 

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Comments from Chris

Kalispell only had a population of about 7,000 people at the time. Even then, the town was less than 50 years old. Kalispell was started in 1891 as a railroad town on the Great Northern Railway. You can probably imagine towns in the old western movies that sprung up along the rail lines. This one one of those.

Now it is more than 20,000 and is the largest city in northwest Montana. There are still many historic structures in Kalispell. If you are traveling through, take a look, maybe you can get a feel for what it was like when Robert was there. 

Kalispell, MT
By Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK (Kalispell  Uploaded by tm) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Kalispell looking toward Glacier National Park
By User: Dan Petesch (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons