The Drivers’ Manual

In the summer of 1954, our grandfather — Philip Shoultz — drove Bus 84, one of the famous red sight-seeing buses of Glacier National Park, for the Glacier Park Transport Company. Every driver was issued this book: nearly three hundred typewritten pages of history, legend, geology, wildflowers, mile-by-mile road logs, and firm instructions on being “a gentleman at all times.” He wrote his name on the cover, studied it — his handwritten study notes, dated July 19, 1954, are still inside — and kept it for the rest of his life.

He passed away in November 2025. This site is his actual copy: every page scanned, transcribed, and set out so his family can wander through it the way passengers once wandered through the park — with the manual open and someone pointing out the good parts.

How to read it: pick any chapter from the shelf on the left. You'll get readable text, and every chapter has a button to see the original typewritten pages, coffee stains and all. Keep an eye out for ■ notes in the margins — and for a few things hidden for you to find.