Starting a ripple: Paradise Valley conference connects Native American, Forest Service history
missoulian.com
PARADISE VALLEY — The drive up to a former outfitters camp in the Gallatin Range can rattle your teeth, but it was nothing Herman Viola couldn’t handle.
What nagged at Viola last weekend was that he had little idea what he and wife Susan were getting into.
A curator emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution and a prominent scholar of the American Indian experience, he’d received an out-of-the-blue phone call months earlier by Cheryl Hughes of the Missoula-based National Museum of Forest Service History.
