Every time I drive over the pass, returning home to Livingston from Bozeman, I peer out my truck window in hopes of catching a glimpse of a grizzly bear. At one time grizzlies roamed free on Bozeman Passand probably an occasional bear still makes her way throughbut the bears Im looking for live in a …
Follow in our footsteps as closely as you can, a graduate student said. And step on the green grass as much as possible, added Brent Peyton, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Montana State University. Theres less likely to be a hot cavern underneath. Falling in line behind the five men, I carefully placed …
Rodeo is the iconic sport of the West. Buckin broncos, cowboys roping calves, horses weaving in and out of barrelsthey all spring to mind when one thinks about the Old West. Rodeo is uniquely American, and specifically, western Americana. Rooted in our countrys past, but thoroughly modern, rodeo links western traditions with contemporary sport. Rodeo …
Ive been here before, but not with this instantly likeable man. Ive squinted at these pictographs painted onto sandstone walls, but not understood the significance of the site. Ive unsuccessfully tried to visually fill in the lines of the faded shields, tepees, arrows, animals and human figures to better be able to see the artwork …
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As we headed up the road from Polaris to Elkhorn Hot Springs Henry spotted a deer resting near the edge of the road beneath a low bough of a Douglas-fir. We slowed to look and noticed that she was nursing a still spotted fawn as she eyed us nervously. She stood and turned toward the …
Barry Lopez is a master of literary non-fiction, but even he occasionally has trouble finding the right words to describe the landscapes he so aptly writes about. Which is why he, along with managing editor, Debra Gwartney, has compiled a tome of evocative terms and their definitions that describe the American landscape. (Trinity University …
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There is nothing new about romanticizing the Old West. Even as the days of get along little doggies were beginning to wane, writers and artists were longing for years gone by. Caroline Lockhart was one of those writers, who, in the early part of the last century wrote tales of the Wild West, even when …
Grizzly bears have always been contentious, portrayed as man-killers and livestock-raiders; the embodiment of cruelty to some and wildness to others. Its apropos that at a time when courts are struggling with the legality of delisting the great bear from the Federal Endangered Species list, Mike Lapinski would write his book, , chronicling the hard …
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