Meyer discloses names along old road and importance of mail carrier

Upper Swan Valley Historical Society – Roads and trails

The fourth in the series covering the Roads and Trails program presented Aug. 7 by the Upper Swan Valley Historical Society (USVHS).

CONDON – Dixie Meyer shared her memories of the roads and trails of the Upper Swan Valley in the early forties and fifties.

She said her dad brought in a team of horses and some saddle horses by way of the Piper Crow Creek trail. The earliest car she remembered her family having was a Model A pickup. She and her two sisters rode in the back on an old oilcloth spread across the truck bed.

Meyer said a couple of times a year they would drive to Polson to get grocer...

 

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