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DOWNTOWN AUGUSTA, GATEWAY TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN FRONT US 89 crosses nearly 40 miles of foothills scrubland, dipping and rising in and out of creek and river bottoms, before …
Of all the Indian tribes encountered by settlers of the frontier, none earned more respect and admiration than the Nez Perce of Idaho, eastern Oregon and Washington, and western …
PHILIPSBURG, A BRIGHTLY PAINTED OLD MINING TOWN, HAS GEM SHOPS, A FABULOUS CANDY STORE AND A BREWERY FROTHING WITH HISTORY From Georgetown Lake’s outlet, MT 1 dives precipitously into …
This is the heart of the Garnet, er, Ruby Valley, with Sheridan (pop. 659) as its peaceful hub on the Ruby River. From Sheridan, the valley broadens to accommodate …
3-7-77 Instilled Fear in Lawless Montanans Look closely and you’ll see the numbers 3-7-77 in some interesting places: on the shoulder patches of Montana Highway Patrol officers, on the …
THE MISSOURI RIVER NEAR CRAIG IS A FLY FISHERMAN’S PARADISE ON THE EDGE OF WILDERNESS The Rocky Mountain Front WOLF CREEK TO BROWNING Estimated length: 136 miles estimated time: …
Harlowton/Big Timber/McLeod ESTIMATED LENGTH: 65 miles highlights: Crazy Mountain Museum, Greycliff Prairie Dog Town State Park, Natural Bridge and Falls, Melville Lutheran church, Judith Gap Wind Farm Getting there: …
A Montana Primer History, Geography, and Driving In our ethnocentric world, the calendar shows Montana’s birth date as November 8, 1889, when after 25 years as a territory the …
Columbus (pop. 1,990) sits in pretty pine and cottonwood bottoms along the Yellowstone River, a working-class town along the railroad and interstate dominated by a smelter and refinery. One …
For those who have traversed it, the Gravelly Range Road evokes a certain reverence. What makes this adventure on gravel unusual even for Montana is that about half of …