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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Since 2008, Carter G. Walker has been crisscrossing Montana and Wyoming in pursuit of the best places to hike, stay, eat, learn, and explore. In her Moon guidebooks — including the most recent, Moon Yellowstone to Glacier National Park Road Trip (Moon Travel, 2023) —...
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort is well known for deep snow and long, steep ski runs, but recently the summer season has rivaled the winter for big mountain adventures. The newly expanded via ferrata, offering guests an outstanding climbing experience with 15 different routes above 9,000...
Master Luthier Kevin Kopp came to us through the best journalist working in America, Richard “Dick” Manning. Manning, writing about music while learning to play the guitar, approaches it the way he approaches everything: with an inexhaustible curiosity and intelligence — two qualities often inextricably...