Winter 2021-22
December 15, 2021Winter mystery writers fill the Winter 2021-22 issue, with interviews of James Lee Burke, Gwen Florio, Craig Johnson and C. J. Box, and Sherman Cahill on how Dashiell Hammett invented noir fiction in Butte, America. Renee Carlson asks who killed John Bozeman, Holly Matkin reports on rural policing, and Bryan Spellman photographs Montana’s seven wooden carousels. Doug Stevens covers the mining of Glacier, Seth Anderson skis under the Big Sky, Kay Bjork skates on Swan Lake, and Robert Rath illustrates the Big Die-Up.
Fall 2021
September 15, 2021The Fall 2021 issue digs into mining across the Treasure State. Patti Albrecht tells the story of Montana’s gold stampede, Robert Rath writes and illustrates the spirit of Butte, and Sherman Cahill follows the Chinese miners who came east to Gold Mountain and recounts three of Montana’s worst mining disasters. Lindsay Dick introduces Mary MacLane, Butte’s prodigal daughter, Joseph Shelton tracks the making of a ghost town at Granite, and Zuzu Feder weighs the complicated legacy of the state’s Superfund sites. Also inside: larch madness, the sapphire road, historic cemeteries and Toole County.
Summer 2021
June 15, 2021A Norman Maclean special section anchors the Summer 2021 issue: Jim Hepworth interviews John N. Maclean, an excerpt from Home Waters follows, Mike L. Raether gives a brief history of fly fishing, and Bryan Spellman photographs the forests, mountains and water of Maclean’s landscapes. Amy Grisak reports on the Pikuni Bigfoot Project’s search for Sasquatch in Indigenous stories, Seth Anderson climbs to Montana’s fire lookouts, and a My Montana Home section covers log homes, kit homes and tiny houses. Joseph Shelton visits the extraordinary home of Chief Plenty Coups.
Spring 2021
March 15, 2021Doug Stevens drives park to park, picking out seven attractions between Glacier and Yellowstone, and Cab Tran reports from the set as an extra on Yellowstone. Kari Bowles profiles Montana’s biggest movie stars, Joseph Shelton traces Malmstrom Air Force Base from cowboys to the Cold War, and Sean Jansen fishes the Beartooth Highway. Lindsay Dick writes on personal hygiene in the Old West and on the orphan train riders who came west from New York, and Bryan Spellman visits Lincoln County.
Winter 2020-21
December 15, 2020Amy Grisak spends a season alone at Many Glacier with the hotel’s winterkeeper, and Kay Bjork finds Glacier in winter a great escape. Scott Sery tracks the legends and the wild horses of the Pryor Mountains, Hallie Zolynski rides out with Montana’s sheepherders, and Joseph Shelton imagines what happens when Yellowstone erupts. A Healthy, Fit & Well special section covers hot springs, mindfulness and the frontier’s camphor-and-snake-oil panaceas, and Bryan Spellman visits Rosebud County.
Fall 2020
September 15, 2020Ednor Therriault visits St. Marie, Montana’s newest ghost town, and Scott Sery follows the path of the dinosaurs through Makoshika Park. Teresa Otto photographs the prairie skyscrapers and asks whether 3-7-77 was warning or whimsy, Joseph Shelton tours Montana’s indie bookstores and writes a coward’s guide to the scariest ways to die here, and Ellen Baumler celebrates Native American veterans in the Warrior Spirit project. Also inside: a day in the life of a smokejumper, Montana’s passenger trains, Carol Polich’s owls, the Evelyn Cameron gallery, and Beaverhead County.