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.