ARCHITECTURE | Faure Halvorsen Architects CONSTRUCTION | Yellowstone Traditions Sometimes, the best designs are fueled by the most disparate sources: late-night napkin sketches over martinis, old-lady potters, past lives, vintage Ralph Lauren clothing, fire towers, and fire stations. Mix it all up, nestle it snugly in the...
DESIGN | Hub City Productions CONSTRUCTION | Malmquist Construction INTERIOR DESIGN | Cooke Interiors Studio STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING | Eclipse Engineering LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE | Northwest Design Studio When Travis and Stephanie Hollman set out to build their home in Whitefish, Montana, their primary goal was simple: “We were looking for a place...
ARCHITECTURE | Ward | Blake Architects CONSTRUCTION | Ormond Builders Rammed-earth construction has taken on various iterations, long serving to shelter humans across the globe. Despite its popularity through the ages, it is seldom seen in the Northwest. But architect Tom Ward of the Jackson, Wyoming firm...
The July sun is high overhead, casting harsh shadows on the ground. Mid-afternoon summertime dust hangs heavy in the air as we pull the old Ford off the road near the hike-in access point. The farmer across the dirt road was out cutting hay late...
June 10, 1805, was another busy day for the Lewis and Clark expedition. Camped near the mouth of the Marias River, they finished caching a large supply of gunpowder, lead, and other essential goods in anticipation of returning from the Pacific by the same route....
Before you sit down in a plush leather chair in front of a cozy fire and pour your favorite cocktail at the end of the day, contemplate this one question: Could the Last Best Place really be the first best place to define a whole...
Fishing streamer flies is a departure for me, as I suspect it is for most trout anglers. Though it’s a fascinating business, since the huge trout it may unleash echo in every cast and swing of the big, full fly, the genteel delights of dry-fly...
The old man couldn’t name his favorite place in the world, but the upper canyon of Moose Creek would be close to the top of the list. It is sort of a canyon within a canyon, and hardly anybody ever goes there. The sheer to...
I wound across western Wyoming’s isolated Bighorn Basin in my indefatigable 1977 Chinook micro-camper, 260,000 happy miles under the Toyota’s hood. Summer heat waves shimmered and danced like Sahara mirages over the arid landscape. Miles away, a truck pulling a horse trailer into the backcountry...
Since its original facility opened in 1927, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming has become a 300,000-square-foot historical center consisting of five separate museums. Its flagship, the Buffalo Bill Museum, chronicles the life of William F. Cody [1846–1917], a Western icon...