These natural treasures were created by glacial activity which ended approximately 10,000 years ago.

The Flathead Valley is the southern extension of a prominent valley called the Rocky Mountain Trench, which runs from the Yukon Territory in Canada as far south as Flathead Lake.

The Trench in northwestern Montana was created by subsidence along a major extensional fault, which continues today.

After the valley formed, glaciers flowing down the Trench from British Columbia, and into it from the surrounding mountain ranges left a flat valley floor and dammed the Flathead River drainage to create Flathead Lake.

The western part of Glacier National Park is located in the county.

[citation needed] As of the 2010 census, there were 90,928 people, 37,504 households, and 24,817 families living in the county.

It is written in a spare, surrealist style by local man Micah Drew, following the pattern set by earlier writers Christie Burns and Justin Franz.