P a g e 3 G h o s t T o w n s a n d H i s t o r y o f M o n t a n a N e w s l e t t e r oped the plans, crew leader Chuck Manning, trusty volunteers Doug Berglund, Steve Penner, Eric Berglund and Rick Davis, and the staff at DNRC's Swan Unit for their support. The new stairs are at a much better pitch and so much safer! History of Little Napa Lookout: The Forest Service built the first lookout in this area in 1932 on Napa Point. It was a 30-foot wooden live-in tower. The Napa Ridge Fire destroyed it in 1937, and the lookout had to run for his life! In 1968, the State of Montana purchased a military surplus bus and modified it to include sleeping and cooking facilities, as well as a cupola that could be cranked up for use as a fire tower, and cranked down to travel. The bus was used from 1969-1973 at the Napa Point lookout site. It was tough to get the bus around the road switchbacks, and was especially perilous going downhill in the fall when returning to the station. In 1972-3 Montana DNRC developed “seen-area maps” and determined that more State protection lands were visible from the Little Napa location than from Napa Point. The current Little Napa lookout was pre-fabricated at Goat Creek. A road was constructed to the new lookout site and the lookout was assembled by Swan River Youth Camp Personnel.—This Article Appeared in the Spring 2016 Northwest Montana Lookout Association Newsletter-Courtesy of The Northwest Montana Lookout Association, For more info, visit their website at: https://www.nwmt-ffla.org/, Photos Courtesy of Chuck Manning, Doug Berglund and Kjell Petersen. HISTORY OF PARK COUNTY-continued From The Livingston Enterprise, January 1, 1900: HUGH J. MILLER—County Attorney. What energy, industry and perseverance will accomplish for a young man when aided by good habits and a strict adherence to the highest rules of honor, is illustrated in the life of Park county’s present attorney—Hugh J. Miller. He is a native of Genoa, Minnesota, born December 31, 1866, receiving a very liberal education in the public schools at home. At the age of fourteen he worked on a farm in the summer and attended school in the winter. He taught his first school when seventeen, continuing in this capacity for five successive years. At the age of twenty-two he entered the University of Michigan, previously marrying Miss Geor
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