All journeys are journeys of the soul, as well as the body and mind. This is delightfully true for Ammalie, the hero of Laura Pritchett’s new novel, Three Keys (Dell, $20). Leaving her empty Chicago home — she’s recently widowed, middle-aged, and estranged from her...
In the spring of 2024, I contacted the Gallatin History Museum in my hometown of Bozeman, Montana, looking for historical photographs of two country schools in the area, Malmborg and Springhill. I wanted to compare the old images with photographs I’d captured. Co-director Charlotte Mills...
Why are mechanical watches so alluring? Especially in 2024 — when a glance at your phone, car dashboard, or microwave can tell you if it’s tea time or cocktail hour. What’s the appeal? Dave Berghold, founder and owner of Bozeman, Montana’s The Last Wind-Up, knows...
Imagine a history professor who, instead of writing monographs, got some canvas, took up a paintbrush, and tried to tell the story of the West through a series of vignettes in oils. That might be the best way to describe Don Oelze: he paints history....
At 4 a.m., the first alarm sounds — not your typical electronic buzz or ringtone, but the vigorous shaking of collars belonging to two pointing dogs. Within seconds, there’s a cold muzzle nudging me to leave my warm bed to get dressed. This is really...
ARCHITECTURE | NATURAL DWELLINGS ARCHITECTURE CONSTRUCTION | DOMICILE CONSTRUCTION INTERIORS | JUNIPER INTERIORS Don and Sheri Weber loved their old farmhouse, cold drafts and all. They had spent 36 years in their beloved home on the outskirts of Idaho Falls. They’d raised their twins there; kept bees, chickens,...
The giant entered Yellowstone National Park squeezed into the back seat of a white Ford Model 81A DeLuxe sedan, arms akimbo, knees spread wide. It was June 27, 1938. The man was 6 feet, 6 inches tall, with medium-length unruly black hair pulled back from...
The Keep’s castle-like facade emerges from the trees like something from a European fairytale — albeit one with a working Montana ranch across the street, a lush golf course below, and a growing neighborhood above. Inside the restaurant, guests are welcomed to a fine dining...
During the COVID doldrums and lockdowns of 2020, documentary filmmaker Dee Garceau needed a project to shake off cabin fever, as Montanans refer to the condition prisoners call “stir crazy,” and clinicians diagnose at its worst as “psychopathology.” “I was isolated, depressed, and miserable,” Garceau says....
The Western Horse: A Popular History of the Wild and Working Animal Written by Randi Samuelson-Brown A celebration of the Western horse, Randi Samuelson-Brown’s new book explores the animal’s ability to capture our hearts and spirits and how horses have come to symbolize the American West. Backed by...