The Lost Journals of Sacajewea: A Novel (Milkweed Editions, $25) by Debra Magpie Earling upends the orthodox view of the Lewis and Clark saga, which paints Sacajewea as Toussaint Charbonneau’s wife and ignores the fact that he bought (or gambled for) her when she was...
In the secluded montana valley where I live, summer has erupted in a crescendo. It began with the echoes of geese and twitters of mountain bluebirds, which were followed closely by the thunderous calls of sandhill cranes and murmurs of croaking frogs. These days, the...
Founded in 2016 by Maggie Benedetti, who was working as a mental health counselor and social worker at the time, Wild Hearts Idaho provides outdoor adventure opportunities for girls ages 12 to 18. After years working with young women in crisis, Benedetti realized the need...
Joshua Caldwell’s new film, Mending the Line, isn’t your typical movie about war. Following screenwriter Stephen Camelio’s cues, the film’s story explores the restoration of John Colter, a wounded veteran haunted by the trauma of war. In Livingston, Montana, he meets an unlikely pair who...
Stio, a mountain lifestyle brand headquartered in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, announced that Bozeman, Montana will be its tenth “mountain studio.” The new Rocky Mountain West storefront will open in the fall of 2023, downtown at 233 E. Main St. As a mountain town, Bozeman has become...
Peeking to preen beneath water gleam to glitter under the amber spell-bound, serene sunlight. Swiftly swimming so their scales sparkle of endless crimson, teal, gray, olive. Whisks through foreign lands, crossing peaks, icy slopes. Consistently wavering in the water. Content and unknowingly holding us so that our breathes hold to admire pearly eyes, leopard fins, amber gills even as they...
On a late summer morning in southern Idaho, our campground neighbors hang a “Happy Birthday” banner from the awning of their trailer. They are the kind of empty nesters I aspire to be; tanned and fit, they began the day kayaking in the lake and...
As I detour from Interstate 90 and drive down the rural road toward Fishtail, Montana, my daily concerns diminish to distant contours in the rearview mirror, and my focus turns to the colorful frame ahead. Like scenes in a motion picture, images from the road can...
The antique mall below Last Chance Gulch in Helena, Montana is full of temptations. Myriad treasures fill the rooms, many beyond price. An enormous glass bowl full of colorful matchbooks draws my eye. Atop them lies a tattered brown book. About the size of a...
Architecture Reid Smith Architects Construction Schlauch Bottcher Construction Interior Design Mimi Snowden Design On a 1,000-acre site east of Manhattan, montana lies a quintessential Western ranch house. It’s a site that borders the trout waters of the Gallatin River. A creek, also good for fishing, wanders through the property, and an...