Patricia Griffin starts by telling me about the wolves. “There was a pack of them on my back hill this past winter,” the esteemed painter, photographer, and conservationist relays over the phone. She’s taking my call from her studio in Jackson, Wyoming — the reception...
It all started with toads. “I grew up in Texas, and actually, the best thing about Houston was the toads,” artist Claire Emery recalls with a laugh. “There were so many toads, and I was an avid toad collector. They would come out of their holes...
If you talk to a dozen ceramic artists throughout Montana, chances are good they’ll cite three reasons for the state’s unique ceramics community: the landscape, the people, and “The Bray.” In a state as vast in area as it is sparse in population, the existence...
Doug Cox is a world-renowned saddlemaker. Operating out of Gardnerville, Nevada — an unincorporated town in rural Douglas County, population 6,200 — he’s been in the custom saddle trade for half a century. At 73, he moves with an unrushed grace that only tradesmen, still...
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...
Architecture Fullerton Architects Construction Refined Matters Interior Design Laura Fedro Interiors Sometimes, the most impressive thing about a home is what you don’t see. The instructions were straightforward: Add a pantry, two guest suites, and expand the primary bathroom in an existing home — and make it look like they had always...
Architecture Pearson Design Group Construction OSM Construction Interior Design MC Design Energy Systems Energy 1 Tucked away on 60 acres near Wilson, Wyoming, the Moosebluff House shows itself to a newcomer slowly. But when it’s revealed, it proves to be a stunner — inside and out. “It’s a bit of a mystery as you...
Each month on the cusp of the full moon, Mark Paulson and about two dozen other people attend a regularly scheduled business meeting in Kalispell, Montana. Then, they move to the parking lot, get out their telescopes, and look up. As the president of the...
The quest for supernatural revelations or visions in wilderness environments has been chronicled in a variety of cultural contexts. One of the oldest expressions of human spirituality, this religious tradition was embraced in North America, particularly among Central and Northern Plains peoples, and especially in...
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...