“When you take a close look at history, not all women who came West brought their grandmother’s iris bulbs and settled into a little house on the prairie,” says artist Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey. “A lot of them were broke, alone, and out of options. Some...
Big Sky Journal is fortunate to work with many students of the West. These writers and photographers study the land and people of the region, seeking to understand their subjects intimately. As fall promenades gracefully through the trees, they notice the subtleties of the sun’s...
Remle Colestock, head chef at Glorietta Trattoria in Jackson, Wyoming, was named a 2026 James Beard Foundation Award Semifinalist for Best Chef in the Mountain Region, encompassing Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming. It was his, and the Italian restaurant’s, first time as a semifinalist...
Before I even get to the front door, I’m surrounded by creatures: a couple of farm dogs, one of them definitely smiling, and a Great Pyrenees, both eager to be petted. There are chickens milling about, and I see red Scottish Highland cattle and some...
As military officers established frontier outposts in the American West, they brought with them favorite sporting traditions from back East. If an officer’s pursuit was hunting, he had to have dogs. Greyhounds accompanied General Eugene A. Carr during his 1869 Republican River Expedition in Colorado Territory....
No one comes to Montana’s Paradise Valley just for the birds. There are greater things that draw people to this spectacular corridor, which is the northern gateway to Yellowstone National Park and stretches 52 miles from Livingston south to Gardiner. [caption id="attachment_30656" align="aligncenter" width="1787" class="img-100"] A bathing...
ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN STUDIOH DESIGN CONSTRUCTION MAKO CONTRACTING LIGHTING AND WINDOW SHADE SYSTEMS SAV Both hardworking professionals, the San Francisco Bay Area couple had come to feel drawn more and more to the peace and tranquility of Montana. The husband fondly recalled his own family road trips each summer to...
“We need to move quickly,” my husband, Jack, urged, tethering our horses to the trunk of a fir tree as the dawn’s golden fingers grasped the darkness. “Take only your gun and a small pack. We’ve got a stiff climb.” Jack and I sprinted up a...
She repeated it like a mantra: “You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” Jeannette Rankin dedicated her life to making the world a better place. She advocated for better working conditions and labor rights, women’s suffrage, restricting child labor,...
It was down in Horse Prairie where elk hid in the timber, and our bellies laughed on Ellis Peak. We will drink the sun all the way back to the Stage Stop. Enjoy brown bottles with broken ranch hands, whose path is cut in heifers, cactus, and rope. They told us the herd is on the...