Back 40: Autumn’s Brown Grass
Autumn’s brown grass is a heart beating for winter, for spring that becomes summer, for summer that fades to autumn and autumn’s brown grass. Autu...
Books: Reading the West
WHEN GEORGE BIRD Grinnell visited Glacier National Park in 1921, he was outraged when a stable manager insisted that the 72-year-old be accompanied by...
History: A Gift from the Chief
Plenty Coups’ legacy in Big Horn County Just eight days before the terrible events on the Little Bighorn in June 1876, a young Crow chief crested th...
Western Design: Mountain Modern in Moonlight
A Texas family builds their ultimate Montana ski home It was 2004 when Debbie Canby’s husband, Robert, suggested Montana for a vacation. “I said, ...
Outside: Pronghorns
IF YOU LIKE A CHALLENGE, TRY TO SPOT AND STALK THE ANIMAL WITH THE FASTEST HOOVES ON EARTH There are easier ways to kill a pronghorn antelope. The spo...
Local Knowledge: Freelancing the High Divide
Making a living on the open range Gabrielle Thoreson grabs a lunch, fills a water bottle, and pockets her phone for the day. Rail thin, with a cascade...
Artist of the West: The Many Layers of Echo Ukrainetz
HONORING THE PAST THROUGH VIBRANT COLOR Gallerists are typically adept at singing the praises of the artists they represent — it is, after all, thei...
Dining Out: Horn & Cantle
AT LONE MOUNTAIN RANCH IN BIG SKY, MONTANA, A RESTAURANT SERVES HISTORY ON EVERY PLATE TRUE CONFESSION: I’M A SUCKER FOR DUDE RANCHES. Maybe it ...
Round Up: News and events from around the Northern Rockies
The Revitalization of Montana’s Monument Peak Lookout Tower THE SEATTLE-BASED OUTDOOR OUTFITTER and apparel company Filson worked alongside the U.S....
Strangers in a Strange Land
SEPTEMBER IS A MONTH of transition here on Central Montana’s high plains, often beginning with temperatures that near triple digits and ending with ...
The Osprey Project: With the use of volunteer nest monitors, Marco Restani helps osprey populations soar
IN A ROOM ON THE LOWER LEVEL OF THE Livingston-Park County Library in Montana, a group of more than 15 people listen to Marco Restani talk about ospre...
Love Song to the Breaks
MY ABIDING LOVE OF THE MISSOURI BREAKS was earned through sustained hardship, a little like how stubborn streptococci earn resistance through repeated...
The Birthplace of Public Lands: Rivals John Muir & Gifford Pinchot Collaborate at Lake McDonald
AT LAKE McDONALD, IN GLACIER NATIONAL PARK IN JULY 2018, my moment came late in the day, after the trailhead parking lots had emptied, after the swimm...
Bear Country Montana
BIG SKY COUNTRY IS ALSO BIG BEAR COUNTRY. Most estimates suggest that Montana has between 13,000 and 17,000 black bears (Ursus americanus) and roughly...
Brewed by Tradition
IN CLASSIC FASHION FOR a college student in upstate New York, Sam Hoffmann first started brewing beer in his dorm room. But it was a childhood spent t...
Buffalo Bill Art Show Generates Over $1 Million
More than $1,023,000 worth of art was sold when the gavel dropped on the last art piece during the 38th annual Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale—bringi...
HOCKADAY HOSTS “GATEWAY TO GLACIER”
In August 2015, award-winning artist Mary Edna Fraser was Glacier National Park’s Artist in Residency and stayed at the Sperry Chalet to inspire and...
TIPPET RISE EVENTS SCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER!
Thanks to partnerships with Glyndebourne opera and the National Theatre, both in the UK, and Montana Shakespeare in the Schools, Tippet Rise is extend...
Yellowstone Art Museum Announces Solo Exhibition Jill Krutick’s “Metamorphosis” to Grace the Northwest Projects and Bair Galleries
The Yellowstone Art Museum proudly announces the fall 2019 exhibition of Jill Krutick’s “Metamorphosis,” an uplifting display of original abstr...
Reading the West
The lurking menaces in the lives of each character in Fall Back Down When I Die by Joe Wilkins (Little, Brown and Company, $27) are like the wolves th...
Celebrating Life: The Bozeman Film Celebration’s 2nd annual BZN International Film Festival
FOR A FEW DAYS IN EARLY JUNE, Bozeman positively brimmed with activity and emotion: Cubans moved furniture out of the way and danced for pleasure; Afg...
Bonded by Work: The Art of Ted and Arin Waddell
PLENTY OF WESTERN ARTISTS AND THEIR CRITICS LIKE TO TALK ABOUT “PLACE” as a primary inspiration for their work, but when artist Ted Waddel...
Joel Ostlind: Western Connections
THERE IS A SAYING ABOUT LIVING IN THE WEST, that it’s like one big Main Street, where the connection to just about everyone you meet is whittled dow...
The Storied Ceramics of Sue Tirrell
WHEN YOU FIRST ENCOUNTER SUE TIRRELL’S CERAMICS, you might feel a hint of nostalgia or a nagging sense that you have seen something vaguely simi...
Stephanie Quayle: The Wild Horse of Country Music
STEPHANIE QUAYLE SINGS ACAPPELLA: Run like a wild horse, chasing that sun even if you’re all out of breath. Aiming your arrow straight for the stars...
Uplifted in the Outdoors: Montana Landscape Painter Greg Scheibel is Guided by the Light
IN A WELL-APPOINTED GALLERY IN NORTHWEST WYOMING, the landscapes painted by Montana artist Greg Scheibel refuse to go unnoticed. It’s not that the p...
Forever Glacier: Montana Painter Nancy Cawdrey Creates an Art Project as Big and Bold as the National Park that Inspires It
A GRIZZLY STRIDES ACROSS A STREAM WHILE THE SUN SPARKLES on the tawny highlights in its chocolate-brown fur. Against a background of craggy peaks, a ...
Round Up: Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival
Join the annual Fall Arts Festival in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to see the latest works by classical and contemporary artists from around the world. Runn...
Round Up: A Rescued Mecca for Artists: Aunt Dofe’s Gallery Reopens
Aunt Dofe’s Gallery on Main Street in the quaint Southwest Montana town of Willow Creek is re-opening its doors on August 16 — after being closed ...
Round Up: The Lake String Quartet: A Yellowstone Tradition
Yellowstone National Park’s resident string quartet is back again this summer, serenading guests from one of the most scenic settings in the park: t...
Round Up: An Evening with Maria and Alex Kalman
Elk River Arts & Lectures kicks off its inaugural Visiting Writers project by hosting Maira and Alex Kalman for a weeklong program that includes a...
Round Up: At a Museum Near You
Ranging from totem-inspired sculptures to art that honors the West’s railroad culture and national parks, here are some exhibitions to catch: Nort...
Outside: Swimming Against Time
It’s hard to get people fired up about chunks of ice, but that’s what scientists and officials in Glacier National Park are trying to do as the pa...
Local Knowledge: Montana Blue Heron
It’s totally cliché and yet completely appropriate: Master weavers Marilyn and William Stevens have interwoven making a living and making a life to...
Images of the West: Roadside Attractions
These are not your typical roadside attractions, like South Dakota’s Corn Palace, Oregon’s Stumps of Mystery, or Kansas’ World’s Largest Ball ...
Dining Out: Wild Flower Kitchen
Sometimes a restaurant is more than a restaurant. So it is at Wild Flower Kitchen in Absarokee, Montana, where two chefs and a charismatic maître d...
Western Design: Wood River Rhapsody
Years ago, Idaho-based builder Mat Hall read about the ancient Japanese wood-preserving technique called Shou Sugi Ban. The treatment involves charrin...
Back 40
Home Beside the weathered garden gate Down at the old home place, A withered wildflower Lies peaceful and still, Too faded, too weak to bare its face....
Western Design Exhibit + Sale Show House Reveals Design Firms for September
The best of elevated Western-inspired elements ranging from elegant contemporary trends to ageless camp style are the hallmark of the 2019 Western Des...
Old Main Gallery Features “Two Generations, Roots in Color”
Old Main Gallery is pleased to feature Two Generations, Roots in Color, a two person exhibition featuring new work by Marshall Noice & Sarsten Noi...
Wyoming Honors 35 Years of Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival this September
Destination mountain town serves as dazzling fall-colors canvas for cultural extravaganza Jackson Hole, Wyoming – July 16 2019 – Much has changed ...
Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture
Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture upcoming events. Of Shadow and Light Jessie Wilber Gallery Jerry Locati July 12 – August 30 Jerry Locati s...
Time and Place: New Works by Shawna Moore and Michael Haykin
Friends and returning gallery artists Shawna Moore and Michael Haykin will present their two person show Time and Place: New Works by Moore and Haykin...
Beyond the Boardwalk
Backcountry excursions in Yellowstone National Park From our perch on a hillside overlooking the upper Lamar River Valley, my friend Mariann and I wat...
Images of the West: Bucking Hay
A big hole valley tradition Montana’s Big Hole Valley is riddled with ranches that have held their ground for many generations, wicked winters be da...
Outside: No Name Creek
Finding solace in a secret fly-fishing spot Dust hangs over the forest road, settling visibly on a dark SUV parked halfway up the mountain. A guy wear...
Western Design: Sense of Space
For a peripatetic family, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, finally feels like home The family had been gamely relocating from one city to another, bouncing betw...
Artist of the West: Amber Blazina
Charting her own course in the world of fine art Amber Blazina’s brush flies from palette to painting. Her mind is focused, but her body shakes with...
Dining Out: The Old Saloon
It was spring in the early 1990s when I first stumbled into the Old Saloon with friends. We were making our way back through Paradise Valley to Bozema...
Round Up: Summer Music Festivals
From classical and jazz, to country and Rock n’ Roll, here are our picks of music festivals and concert series to catch this summer throughout the N...