Marshall Noice’s richly chromatic paintings have a stained glass effect: Light seems to come through the colors, which are at once deeply saturated and enchantingly translucent. His landscapes inspire a renewed sense of delight in one of nature’s most ubiquitous and easily overlooked life forms....
More a blur or mere winged premise of a bird in flight, he lit from nowhere on a mid-stream stone, studied me a bit, squat-jigged on a fringe of ice, blinked twice and went on diving riffles, unruffled, alone. ...
The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas (Bison Books, $24.95) is the latest release from author Robert M. Utley. Known as one of the most well-respected historians of the American West and author of more than 16 books on the...
On most winter mornings, the parking lot at Last Chair Kitchen & Bar is full, even though the restaurant doesn’t open until 5 p.m. Since it’s on the way up to Whitefish Mountain Resort, skiers often use it as a carpool meet-up location during the...
“Snow is falling, you live in the mountains, your passion is skiing and snowboarding, you can’t hold back,” says Big Sky, Montana-based photographer Ryan Turner. “Once you become a lover of those kinds of snow sports, powder days become the ones you look forward to...
On an autumn day in 1968, near the town of Wilsall in Montana’s Shields River Valley, two construction workers were using a backhoe when they dug up what appeared to be a grave. It was later identified as an ancient burial site that contained the...
The elk checked into my yard one snowy winter evening as if they were entitled to one-night accommodations with all the benefits. At dawn, I discovered three snow-blanketed cows under my ponderosas, their ears idly monitoring the early morning quiet. As light filtered beneath the...
A sequence of dude-ranch vacations in the Rockies can leave just about anyone yearning for their own place in the mountains. So when it happened to a family from the East Coast, the question was not why or when, but where would that home be? “We’d...
From Wounded Knee to the Gallows: The Life and Trials of Lakota Chief Two Sticks (University of Oklahoma Press, $24.95), co-authored by Philip S. Hall and Mary Solon Lewis, sheds new light on the aftermath of the Battle of Wounded Knee (also called the Wounded...
One night it will just pass Plain in the firelight. That thing you’ve been Hunting for so long, Suddenly right in front of you, Unafraid. As if everything, The cunning traps, The dogged trailing, Was all just for show. Some elaborate ceremony Of the inevitable. And now this No desperate chase, No revelatory Final showdown, Just a gentle meeting of eyes, A...