In September 1892, artist Henry Herman “H.H.” Cross set up a studio at Marcus Daly’s Montana Hotel in Anaconda. There, Cross spent six months creating paintings of Daly’s racehorses, and on January 16, 1893, The Salt Lake Tribune reported that the hotel was “the Mecca...
Life’s splendor is all around, from the luminous quality of light during a Rocky Mountain sunset, to the magnificent stance of a grizzly bear lumbering along a hillside, to the transcending moment of triumph when a wild trout hooks onto a fly. These are the...
They never knew their locomotive engine had hit a bear that night. Up in the cab, amid all the engine noise and random conversation, Slug and Dillon droned down the rails, in the dark, westbound on Burlington Northern freight number 766. They didn’t feel so...
For the last century, a quintessential Montana artist might have been known for creating traditional images of the wide-open, beautiful vistas and rugged terrain that define the region. Walk into an area gallery, and you’re likely to find oil paintings and watercolors of “big picture”...
If you believe, as Picasso did, that “the purpose of art is to wash the dust of daily life off our souls,” or, like Kurt Vonnegut, that art is “a very human way of making life more bearable,” or, as Mary Oliver wrote, that “art...
Crow Fair, known as the Tipi Capital of the World, is an unmatched cultural gathering in Crow Agency, Montana. The sheer volume of attendees speaks to the event’s popularity and is a testament to the resilience of the Crow (Apsáalooke) people. [caption id="attachment_30345" align="alignnone" width="2560" class="img-100"]...
Architecture Miller Roodell Architects Construction Benchmark Group Interior Design Design Associates Landscape Architecture Field Studio Landscape Architects When a couple asked Miller Roodell Architects and Design Associates to compose a final estate for gathering their multi-generational family, they had more than just the architecture in mind. The legacy home...
Four apple trees, boughs planed, hover shoulder-height above the ground, trunks twisted, coiled like dancers at the moment of a pivot. If these trees were to move, make their turns, reread the grooves creasing their bark, their red fruit would fly off into the dark and scatter far over the grass — like beads of...
From a distance, the grassy hills just north of Missoula look like disheveled blankets. Known locally as the North Hills, this stretch of land separates the ever-growing university town from the mountains of the Rattlesnake Wilderness. Donna L. Erickson grew up in the North Hills, on...
Architecture | Miller Roodell Architects Construction | Bolton Custom Homes Interior Design | Avantgarden Landscape Architecture | Field Studio Here’s one sign that a construction project has gone well: when, after the dust has settled, each of the principals involved sings the praises of the next. In the case of a...