The millionaire art dealer had been diagnosed with cancer. Until then Fenn led an adventurous life and he wanted an adventurous death. After soul searching, he hatched a plan. He would stuff an antique bronze chest with some of the artifacts he spent his life collecting: 265 coins, pre-Columbian animal figures, gold dust, an antique dragon coat bracelet fixed with 250 some odd rubies, several diamonds, a 2,000-year-old Colombian necklace, and more
There is no more special place in the lower 48 than the Bob Marshall Wilderness area, and no more special getaway from “the clutches of mechanistic civilization” than the small, rustic intrusion of the K Bar L ranch west of Augusta. Our first sign of its
A gentle sleep comes to an end. I open my eyes to the darkened room and in the stillness I hold my breath and listen. The voices of coyotes meet my ears. Their wails travel through the frozen trees and across the hardened snow. Their
Every ski hill has its resident long-timers. Eighty-two-year-old rancher Robert Marchesseau of Polaris is likely one of the few who can claim to have helped build his favorite ski area.
