Winter 2025-26
December 15, 2025Chris Enss tells the story of Lucia Darling, the Montana teacher, and Michael J. Ober drives Highway 200, a damn good road. Sally Thompson recounts a long-ago winter in Blackfeet country, Douglas A. Schmittou writes on the smallpox epidemics of 1781-1782 and 1837-1838 on the Upper Missouri, and Ednor Therriault reports from Pablo, where the Three Chiefs Museum and Cultural Center has risen from the ashes. Ross Peterson profiles the author and officer Robert Sims Reid, Lindsay Tran covers the Montana Circle of American Masters, Suzanne Waring finds Black Eagle refusing to fade away, and Bryan Spellman gets to know Lake County.
Summer 2020
June 15, 2020Ashley Arcel walks Glacier’s five best day hikes to open the Summer 2020 issue, and Sean Jansen counts up Montana’s nine national parks. Amy Grisak heads into the Little Belts, Ednor Therriault collects the state’s funniest one-star reviews, and Maria Anderson asks whether hitchhiking in Montana is a bygone era. The issue carries a My Montana Home special section on post-COVID real estate, plus the art of Carol Hagan and Barbara Liss and a visit to Dawson County.
Spring 2020
March 15, 2020Chris Muhlenfeld opens the Spring 2020 issue with Montana’s UFO sightings, illustrated by Robert Rath, alongside Carol Polich on the sandhill crane babies of the Big Sky and Maggie Slepian on the state’s buzzing honey industry. Scott Sery descends into the Bighorn Cavern, Teresa Otto photographs Montana’s endangered vintage neon signs, and Brian D’Ambrosio follows modern roller derby. Also inside: five spring bike rides around Whitefish, geocaching with Bryan Spellman, the Yellowstone Film Ranch, MSU’s solar car, and a visit to Sanders County.