Peeking to preen beneath water gleam to glitter under the amber spell-bound, serene sunlight. Swiftly swimming so their scales sparkle of endless crimson, teal, gray, olive. Whisks through foreign lands, crossing peaks, icy slopes. Consistently wavering in the water. Content and unknowingly holding us so that our breathes hold to admire pearly eyes, leopard fins, amber gills even as they...
Sanctuary: Homes and Resorts is among ORO Editions’ latest books to explore inspired architecture and design. The book features 16 projects by de Reus Architects, in such locations as Hawaii, Mexico, and the Pacific Northwest. Each project explores the interplay between nature, craft, and the...
Stio, a mountain lifestyle brand headquartered in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, announced that Bozeman, Montana will be its tenth “mountain studio.” The new Rocky Mountain West storefront will open in the fall of 2023, downtown at 233 E. Main St. As a mountain town, Bozeman has become...
Joshua Caldwell’s new film, Mending the Line, isn’t your typical movie about war. Following screenwriter Stephen Camelio’s cues, the film’s story explores the restoration of John Colter, a wounded veteran haunted by the trauma of war. In Livingston, Montana, he meets an unlikely pair who...
Founded in 2016 by Maggie Benedetti, who was working as a mental health counselor and social worker at the time, Wild Hearts Idaho provides outdoor adventure opportunities for girls ages 12 to 18. After years working with young women in crisis, Benedetti realized the need...
In the secluded Montana valley where I live, summer has erupted in a crescendo. It began with the echoes of geese and twitters of mountain bluebirds, which were followed closely by the thunderous calls of sandhill cranes and murmurs of croaking frogs. These days, the...
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea: A Novel (Milkweed Editions, $25) by Debra Magpie Earling upends the orthodox view of the Lewis and Clark saga, which paints Sacajewea as Toussaint Charbonneau’s wife and ignores the fact that he bought (or gambled for) her when she was...
As David Rohm prepared the camera to capture film footage for Golden Eagles: Witnesses to a Changing West, I gazed across the green-speckled red earth and into the wild blue yonder, contemplating the unique spiritual relationship that my tribe and other Plains Indian communities have...
Architecture JLF Architects Construction Dovetail Construction Interior Design Sanctuary Interior Design Specialty Lumber Montana Reclaimed Lumber The couple were empty nesters living in northern California when they started looking at land in the Rockies. Although they had always dreamed of retiring to the mountains, when they did purchase a house outside of Bozeman,...
Architecture Keith Beck Architecture Construction Tamarack Custom Homes Interior Design Camp Martini Whether refined rustic, park lodge traditional, or mountain modern, one shared feature of custom architecture in the Northern Rockies is the beauty of its setting. In this case, the home is located along the shore of Flathead Lake in northwest...