We all know the old song “Home on the Range.” It was originally written by Dr. Brewster M. Higley as a poem in 1872 to describe his idyllic Kansas homestead, a place where, apparently, the buffalo roamed and the deer and antelope played. After his...
Suspending the prescience of time, painter Rob Akey’s solitary scenes allow viewers to take a precious breath, understand a fleeting aperture of light, and stay a moment to linger. His ability to encapsulate our inner lives — even amidst busy city streets — speaks to...
Tucked away in the Glacier National Park photo archives, under the careful stewardship of the National Park Service, are hundreds of photo negatives and prints by Tomer J. Hileman, one of the park’s most prolific photographers from nearly a century ago. And just as the...
Bigger, yet very much the same — down to the cozy wooden booths, the bar setup, and the enormous moody blue Dale Livezey painting on the back wall — the newly remodeled bar and waiting area of On Broadway in downtown Helena, Montana, feels like...
Robbie Magnan sweeps his tattooed arm over the landscape in front of us, where miles of shortgrass prairie rolls out toward a flat horizon obscured by smoke from a distant wildfire. There’s a pumpjack of a working oil well and a herd of about 200...
A pair of great horned owls have been calling to each other from the other side of the lake for most of the night. I imagine them in playful competition, boasting about who’s caught more voles. As each minute passes, their calls sound closer together....
Whether it’s a long, grueling hike to a secret hunting spot, the thrill of taking down your very first whitetail, or the last camping trip before the snow flies, fall adventures in the Northern Rockies are some of the best. As the skies clear of...
Like many outdoor enthusiasts, I navigate my way to my next adventure using maps — both paper ones and those on digital apps — that show the managing entities of the places I hope to reach. And the first step for getting to that remote...
He’d never been out West before, but he’d heard it had some of the best fly-fishing in the world. As Ernest steered the yellow Model A toward the Bighorn Mountains, they reminded him of the Sierra de Guadarrama in Spain — the same color and...
The long-awaited opening of American Prairie’s National Discovery Center in Lewistown, Montana, is slated for fall 2021. Launched by the nonprofit American Prairie — a Montana-based organization that’s working to create the largest nature reserve in the contiguous U.S. — it’s designed to be a...