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.
Fall 2025
September 15, 2025Colonel John B. Driscoll takes Montana’s 163rd Infantry into the jungle hell of New Guinea at Sanananda, and Russell Rowland tells how The Deer Hunter, filmed in Montana, almost destroyed Hollywood. Douglas A. Schmittou recovers the ice busters, the only sortie American military aircraft flew against a target on American soil in the Second World War, Justin Franz goes full steam ahead, and Joseph Shelton follows the Sage Wall as it goes viral. Hallie Zolynski spends a summer in the Taylor-Hilgard, Nick Mitchell finds miniature magic at the Western Montana Railroad Historical Association, and the 2025 Best of Montana section runs from page 22.
Summer 2025
June 15, 2025Amy Grisak walks 1,700 miles of the Montana Trail, and Tom Vandel remembers the Red Lodge Fourth of July brouhaha of 1975 with illustrations by Robert Rath. Douglas A. Schmittou visits Rosebud Battlefield State Park, where the girl saved her brother, Ross Peterson introduces the band boys of Butte, and Joseph Shelton asks who the hell Montana Frank was. Susie Wall reports from the Teller Wildlife Refuge in the Bitterroot, Sherman Cahill tours the state in pork chop sandwiches, and James Grady talks with Russell Rowland about Condor.
Spring 2025
March 15, 2025Michael Ober walks the snowsheds of Glacier National Park, and Joseph Shelton charts early aviation conquering the Divide with illustrations by Robert Rath. Nick Mitchell collects the fossil legends of the Plains tribes, buffalo calling stones and medicine bundles among them, Hallie Zolynski hauls a ski pulk 900 miles through the backcountry, and Douglas A. Schmittou traces the Little Ice Age in Montana. Also inside: the Montana Hope Project, Fairmont Hot Springs, remembering David Lynch, J.K. Ralston’s legacy, Ednor Therriault on Montana rest stops, and Gallatin County.
Winter 2024-25
December 15, 2024Ross Peterson reports on Missoula in the stormy sixties, when the hippies were coming, and Nick Mitchell tells the last ride of Long George Francis with illustrations by Robert Rath. Russell Rowland remembers the photographer Evelyn Cameron, Douglas A. Schmittou catalogues the extreme weather behind Montana’s legendary winters, and Sherman Cahill traces identity and reinvention in The Big Trail, starring John Wayne. Lindsay Tran visits the boomtowns of Fort Peck Dam, Ednor Therriault crosses the Snowden Bridge, and Bryan Spellman gets to know Flathead County.
Fall 2024
September 15, 2024Doug Stevens rides with the Buffalo Soldier Wheelmen of the 25th Infantry Regiment at Fort Missoula, and Michael J. Ober uncovers Lewistown’s forgotten air base. Douglas A. Schmittou makes the case for Tyrannosaurus rex as Montana’s most legendary apex predator, Sherman Cahill checks into the haunted hotels of southwest Montana, Nick Mitchell binds the Freemasons to the vigilantes, and Holly Matkin follows the Irish sport of hurling as it takes root. Joseph Shelton road trips to Dillon, James Grady remembers Richard Hugo, and the 2024 Best of Montana section runs from page 30.