“Snow isn’t just pretty. It also cleanses our world and our senses…” — john burnside There’s nothing like waking up to a landscape covered in fresh snow. Even for those who loathe winter and the precipitation that comes with it, there’s no denying that a pristine...
We all know the old song “Home on the Range.” It was originally written by Dr. Brewster M. Higley as a poem in 1872 to describe his idyllic Kansas homestead, a place where, apparently, the buffalo roamed and the deer and antelope played. After his...
One thing I’ve always loved about the Northern Rockies is the “cowboy casualty” if you will. There are few venues that require anything fancier than jeans — as illustrated by the general manager of Missoula’s 1889 restaurant in our “Dining Out” column. “When people call...
We woke up to 6 inches of snow this morning in Bozeman, Montana. It’s late May, and while I imagine that sounds just awful to readers in more southerly locales, those of us who’ve lived here for a while were unphased. It happens every single...
In Big Sky Journal’s annual HOME issue, there always seems to be a common thread, something mentioned — in some shape or form — in just about every story. Often it’s related to trends, design elements, or tangible aspects of home design. But this year’s...
Anyone who’s spent time fly fishing in the Northern Rockies understands that it has a way of taking your mind off of the problems in the world. Casting a line into one of our region’s blue-ribbon trout streams, mountain lakes, or spring creeks — surrounded...
In this issue, Aaron Teasdale writes about photographer Lee Nye, who returned to his home state of Montana and tended bar in downtown Missoula in the early 1960s. While working there, he would ask the everyday folks who sat across from him — most of...
In my humble opinion, fall has always been a good time to practice social distancing. Not that the term was used much — or at all — before a global pandemic hit, but still, it’s always been kind of a thing for us here in...
As an editor, putting each issue of Big Sky Journal together is like working on a puzzle. There are different components that make up the final picture, and you hope that when it’s all pieced together, it fits well and that the stories complement each...
Writer Thomas McGuane made Montana his permanent home in 1978. After working hard in Hollywood and playing hard in Key West, Florida — where he was known as “Dr. Berserko” — he decided to trade in the thrill of a peripatetic life for Montana’s big skies,...