The Big Sandy Mountaineer -

I have been giggling every since. I was talking to a friend on the telephone last night. The boiler was churning out heat madly but with the temperature around twenty below, this was indeed what we would have called in Glacier National Park a Three Dog Night. That expression came from an area where in the winter, elk stay. It is called Two Dog Flats.

In researching the story of the naming of that area, I came across an old story, probably more fiction than fact, that name referred to how many dogs it took to keep you and your wife warm on a cold winter night. One dog was hardly worth...