Sinopah Mountain - Glacier National Park, MT
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hykesj
N 48° 29.464 W 113° 21.891
12U E 325279 N 5373582
Mount Sinopah, in the Two Medicine Lake area of Glacier National Park, was featured on this 1934 U.S. postage stamp.
Waymark Code: WM16REQ
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 09/24/2022
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Two Medicine is an area of Glacier National Park that’s rarely visited by tourists these days, but when this stamp was issued in 1934, it was one of the park’s most popular destinations. About 13 miles from the Great Northern Railway station in East Glacier, it was the easiest spot within the park to reach at that time. The Great Northern even built a chalet on the lake which still stands today.
Mount Sinopah (elevation: 8276 ft.) rises over 3000 ft. above the west end of Two Medicine Lake and is the most prominent feature in this area of Glacier National Park. Sinopah means ‘kit fox’ in the Blackfeet language. It was the name of a daughter of a powerful Blackfeet chief and wife of Hugh Monroe, a Canadian fur trapper with the Hudson’s Bay Company.
Nowadays, the Going-to-the-Sun Road, which had just opened the year before this stamp was issued, offers access to the incredibly scenic Logan Pass area. Although Two Medicine is still popular among campers, few drive-through tourists make the effort to get there.
The stamp was part of a set of ten issued in 1934 commemorating America’s National Parks. Most descriptions of this particular stamp identify the body of water as Two Medicine Lake but it’s actually Pray Lake, which is connected to Two Medicine Lake but a little further away.
Stamp Issuing Country: United States
Date of Issue: 27-Aug-1934
Denomination: 9c
Color: red orange
Stamp Type: Single Stamp
Relevant Web Site: Not listed
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