DeSanto, Jerry.

Jerry DeSanto joined the Air Force in 1946 and was honorably discharged in 1949; graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder with a B.A. in 1956 and an M.A. in 1958 in central European history; finished his dissertation work in Italian history at the University of Colorado at Boulder but refused the degree; joined the National Park Service as a ranger in 1965 at Yellowstone Park and shortly thereafter transferred to Glacier National Park where he worked as a naturalist until he retired in 1987. An expert on the history of Glacier and the North Fork country, DeSanto has written several articles for Montana, the Magazine of Western History.