2019

For some she’s a pilot. For some she’s an angel. For certain, she’s a woman with wings. Since 2017, Kelli French has been on Stat Air’s flight crew, providing emergency transport from Hi-Line [...]

By Tiffany Sweeney Life is filled with storms. Some you can see coming from miles away, and others take you by surprise. Life throws us a number of storms and allows us the opportunity to really [...]

By Brad Reynolds Your child is only five months old when you sense something is wrong. She sleeps too much. She doesn’t gain weight. She vomits far too often. You take her to the hospital, and [...]

By Brad Reynolds We all come into this world with a heart inside us. We don’t always leave with the same one. The human-to-human heart transplant saw its first success in 1967, and there have [...]

By Dennis Nottingham In Montana, bears both black and brown (grizzly) are being encountered on a more frequent basis and are cussed and discussed by many an expert. My 50 years in Alaska hunting [...]

By Kent Hanawalt Most ranch vehicles are equipped with a cowdog. They wait patiently while their masters are in the bank, the café, or the bar. No self-respecting cowboy would admit that these [...]

Article & Photos by J.B. Chandler Montana’s homesteaders were either speculators or builders. The land speculator’s goal was to “proof up” the land and immediately sell it. The builders, on [...]

The Treasure State is rich in its citizenry—men and women of distinguished talents and golden hearts. Truly, the state’s greatest treasure is its people. In this vein, the Montana Cowboy Hall of [...]

By Richard Ecke “I love cars,” bellows Jim Eli from the television screen. The Great Falls man starred last year in a surprise hit called “Pick, Flip and Drive,” but viewers are most likely to [...]

By Arnold Hokanson There was a time when most men wore hats of some kind. And most men valued them quite seriously. Oh, some of the hats worn around the ranch looked as though they’d been through [...]