W.R. Coe canoeing c.1914 In 1905 W. R. Coe spent a month hunting in Montana. His description of the trip was found among the Coe family history notes kept by Miss Marguerite Pettet, Mr. Coe's personal secretary. "In 1905 I spent a month on a hunting trip in the Two Medicine Country, Montana, which is now part of Glacier Park. My guide was Thomas Dawson. "I was accompanied by my brother (George) and Captain D. Gay Stivers who was in the legal department of the Amalgamated Copper Company and who arranged the trip. "Dawson was a half-breed. He told me his father was a Scotsman and I understood him to say his mother was a Piegan Indian. I was surprised to find him well educated, and understood from him that his father had taken him to Edinburgh and he received education there. After the death of his father he returned and lived among the Piegan Indians and later became a licensed guide. "We detrained from the Great Northern Railway at a station called Midvale, which is now called Glacier Park Station. Dawson had a small ranch south of the railroad. "I did not visit Glacier Park again until July 1940, and on mentioning that I had been in that country in 1905 and had a guide named Tom Dawson I learned he was in charge of the curio shop at the Glacier Park Station. I went to see him, and as I approached him he called me by name although he had not seen me in thirty-five years. He was well dressed, and while he was probably in his eighties he did not look it and was apparently in very good health. " I understood that Dawson Pass in Glacier Park was named after his father." Coe's affection and respect for Dawson persisted, and his likeness appears on the left corbel, south of the formal dining room door in the cloister court.