28 Sep Hunting for Color
While many fall-foliage enthusiasts naturally gravitate to the fiery spectacle of hardwood forests in New England, if aesthetic horizons are broadened, portions of the Rocky Mountains offer a different impressive alternative. Accomplished landscape photographer James Kay has long adhered to this belief. Frequently focusing on...
16 Apr Shining Brow
Twentieth-century architectural icon Frank Lloyd Wright described his ideal home location as “the shining brow” of a hill. Indeed, he named his Wisconsin and Arizona homes (and adjoining studios and schools) “Taliesin,” the Welsh word for such a setting, having found in each of those...
29 Sep The Woods are Lovely
I have always loved the open prairie grasslands and coulees that form typical habitat for sharptails, Huns, and pheasants — Big Sky Country defined. An enormous swath of it lay spread out before me one cloudless September morning, running all the way north from the...
07 Apr So near, yet so far
“WE WANTED A FAMILY RETREAT THAT WAS CLOSE ENOUGH to our permanent place in Bozeman so we could get there often, yet far enough to feel like we were away,” says the owner of a new lakeside house that he, his wife of 30 years,...
10 Dec Owning Maverick Mountain
WITH ONE WEEK LEFT OF SKI SEASON, Erik Borge has very little to do. It’s 10 a.m. on a Friday in late March, and the 33-year-old owner of Maverick Mountain is sitting on a stool at the ski area’s bar in the base lodge, pint...
12 Aug 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 even if you can’t see ‘em yet. The rising star of country music is sitting with me on...
10 Jun Wolf Watchers
The allure of life and death in the wild It was early morning and I was traveling through Yellowstone National Park with graduate students who were taking my course on writing about the West, when our host, a representative of the Yellowstone Association, got a...
16 Apr Western Focus: Coral & Tusk
Looking out the window of her home studio in Northern Wyoming, Stephanie Housley takes in the scenic views of the Gros Ventre and Wind River mountain ranges. Inspired by these daily glimpses, it’s here that she draws winsome creatures and emblems of nature’s bounty. Housley...