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Ranch and Farm Wholesale Supply was originally founded in 1961 with Bob Simard, Harold Simard, Virgil Austreng and Oscar Knutson. Virgil and Oscar had previously operated a hardware and implement [...]

After forty-three years in the high-octane world of the restaurant industry, most people would be content with a quiet retirement. Brett Harris certainly was for about a year. But a nudge from [...]

By Lochiel Edwards Montana is a land of immigrants. Some of us descend from the first to arrive, maybe 600 generations past; some are first generation. We all came for the land – what was [...]

By Catharine Melin-Moser One indelible image of the American West is that of cowboys dragging roped calves to a fire where a branding iron is seared against the hide. Branding, however, is not a [...]

By Billie J Olson From a former gymnastics facility to a premier community hub, the Shonkin Event Center at 901 9th St N is breathing new life into Great Falls. The journey began in 2017 when [...]

By Billie J Olson In the shadow of the Rocky Mountain Front, Choteau feels like a “Hallmark town”—a place where children ride bikes freely and neighbors look you in the eye. At the center of this [...]

By Billie J Olson Situated in the rolling hills of Central Montana along the Milk River, Montana Style Events is a living museum of the Big Sky spirit. Betsi Knight, a “retired” interior designer [...]

The red “ON AIR” light flicks to life inside a modest studio in Great Falls, and just like that, “Danny D” settles into his element. For listeners tuning in to Real Country 104.3 FM, DeWitt isn’t [...]

Dave Stamey has made it his life’s work to celebrate the rural American west. In the past two decades he has recorded fourteen albums of original music, travelled literally hundreds of thousands [...]

By Gayle M. Irwin into the inaugural class of the Montana Musicians Hall of Fame. Rob’s musical introduction started at an early age. His mother played piano to “work through things,” he said. [...]