Summer 2024
June 15, 2024Sherman Cahill follows Charley Pride from the Helena smelter to country-western stardom, and Joseph Shelton checks in at the Grabow and her sisters, Livingston’s historic hotels. Hallie Zolynski photographs bronc riding, Douglas A. Schmittou writes on Woman Chief and Running Eagle, nineteenth-century women warriors of the Apsáalooke and Piikáni, and Nick Mitchell covers the Sheep Wars and what James Lumley found crashed in Cadotte Pass. Also inside: the kidnap and ransom of Froggy Doo, Dorothy Johnson, the Marlboro Ranch, and Fallon County.
Spring 2024
March 15, 2024Nick Mitchell brings the Devil’s Brigade to Helena, Christopher Muhlenfeld covers Montana’s Serb Fest, and Joseph Shelton follows Buffalo Bill’s last tour of the state and the secret life of Butte’s pigeons. Ednor Therriault tells the story of paving Montana, Brenda Wahler sets Mark Twain against Clark of Montana, and Sherman Cahill makes the case for Anaconda as the prettiest little town in southwest Montana. Also inside: Lee Steen and the Tree People, the Powder River Kid, the American Legion’s highway fatality markers, and Deer Lodge County.
Winter 2023-24
December 15, 2023Joseph Shelton remembers Frontier Town, and Robert Rath introduces and illustrates Montana’s bison-lizard. Sherman Cahill tells the day Jack Dempsey cheated Shelby, Nick Mitchell follows the petrified man of Livingston east, and Douglas A. Schmittou marks the bicentennial of Hugh Glass’s odyssey. Lindsay Tran covers the race for the capital, Michael J. Ober dishes up community at Montana’s diners, Doug Stevens credits the Jackson and Moran partnership that saved Yellowstone, and Bryan Spellman gets to know Chouteau County.
Fall 2023
September 15, 2023Christopher Muhlenfeld tells the story of the Boomtown Saint, and Nick Mitchell recounts how Bobby became a legend and when flying saucers first came to Great Falls. Joseph Shelton hunts the Shunka Warak’in, hyena of the Rockies, Doug Stevens collects trappers’ tales from early Yellowstone, and Sherman Cahill reports on Butte as J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI Siberia and lists seven Montana towns that never existed. Dr. Shane Doyle celebrates the gift of a Blackfoot map, Todd Klassy photographs the Cremer Ranch rodeo dynasty, and the 2023 Best of Montana section runs from page 32.
Summer 2023
June 15, 2023Sherman Cahill wonders whether some tourists have a deathwish, and Nick Mitchell tells the story of Stuart’s Stranglers. Douglas A. Schmittou writes on Chief Mountain as landmark and sacred site, Doug Stevens visits Fort Benton and follows Calamity Jane’s life in Montana, and Joseph Shelton calls on Charlie Russell at Bull Head Lodge. Frank Vargo meets the Montana marksman Tom Frye, James Lee Burke talks with Russell Rowland about Bud Guthrie, and Hallie Zolynski photographs the Anaconda Pintler Wilderness.
Spring 2023
March 15, 2023Ednor Therriault asks whether the Flathead Lake Monster is still at large, and Sherman Cahill tells how Hank Williams Jr. survived Ajax Mountain. Douglas A. Schmittou presents the Lakota delegation portraits of 1868-1877 and the advent of steamboat traffic on the Upper Missouri, Todd Klassy photographs the Shonkin Sag, and Lindsay Tran follows the restoration of Mary MacLane’s home in Butte. Also inside: Jim’s Horn House, lightning in the wild, southwest Montana’s hot springs, three snapshots of an underwater Montana, and Blaine County.
Winter 2022-23
December 15, 2022Railroads run through the Winter 2022-23 issue. Nick Mitchell tells how a Butte miner hijacked a Northern Pacific train and tried to drive it to Washington, Joseph Shelton covers Kid Curry and the Great Northern train robbery and the knights of the tie and rail, Sherman Cahill rides the mid-century Empire Builder, and Amy Grisak profiles James J. Hill. Doug Stevens follows the Nez Perce flight for freedom, Holly Matkin reports on Big Sky Bravery, and Todd Klassy photographs beautiful Montana roads for all seasons. Bryan Spellman gets to know Big Horn County.
Fall 2022
September 15, 2022Todd Klassy photographs Lost Montana to open the Fall 2022 issue, and Sherman Cahill investigates the state’s cattle mutilation mystery. Renee Carlson collects Montana’s road ghosts with illustrations by Robert Rath and reports on the final days of the Montana Children’s Center in Twin Bridges, while Ednor Therriault tours the wild and wooly museums. Doug Stevens introduces the real cattle queen of Montana, Holly Matkin celebrates military veterans in bronze, and Amy Grisak tells how Montana fought World War I. The 2022 Best of Montana section runs from page 65.
Summer 2022
June 15, 2022The Summer 2022 issue follows Lewis and Clark through Montana. Hallie Zolynski travels the route the Corps of Discovery left behind, Sherman Cahill searches with them for the American incognitum, Joseph Shelton stages their meeting with the grizzly bear, and Doug Stevens tells the Salish discovery of the Corps of Discovery. Renee Carlson follows Sacagawea, Pompey and Patrick Gass after history was made, and Lindsay Tran visits Travelers’ Rest. Also inside: the Crazy Mountains, Crow Creek Falls, Anaconda’s Washoe Theater, the county fair, and Wheatland County.
Spring 2022
March 15, 2022Todd Klassy photographs the tradition of spring branding, and Holly Matkin visits Montana’s magnificent buffalo jumps and drives the Beartooth Highway then and now. Lindsay Tran interviews Michael Punke, author of The Revenant and Last Stand, Amy Grisak celebrates the diversity of Montana’s cowboy culture, and Renee Carlson tells the rowdy history of Miles City’s Bucking Horse Sale. Doug Stevens follows the National Bison Range through vision, tragedy and homecoming, Hallie Zolynski photographs draft horses, and Bryan Spellman gets to know Powder River County.