February

By J.B. Chandler There’s the famous Dutch Henry, the handsome outlaw from Colorado who talked his way out of a livestock theft conviction in Dodge City because the cowboy jurors couldn’t imprison [...]

By Hope Good One of the most amazing natural features of Montana is its abundance of natural hot springs. The number of these springs in Montana and Wyoming is unsurpassed anywhere else in the [...]

By Brad Reynolds “If you’re going to do art then do you, not me. You’ll never be me, and if you try to be me then we will lose you.” King Kuka King Kuka was a sculptor, a painter, and poet—and in [...]

By Brad Reynolds The impact one life can have is truly incredible. You need look no further than Montana for evidence of that. Consider Charlie Russell. Who in his time could have predicted the [...]

by Marie Hoyer From 1924 through 1940, there lived in Lewistown a humble man with no outstanding traits of face, size, or physical form. His main occupation was a sign painter, a craft he learned [...]

William Frederick Cody was many things in his lifetime. He was a Pony Express rider, a hunter, a soldier in the Union Army, a civilian scout during the Indian Wars, and most famously, he was a [...]

Doc Holliday A decade prior to the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, “Doc” John Henry Holliday was graduating with a degree in dentistry. No sooner had he set up practice in Atlanta, than he was [...]

E.C. “Teddy Blue” Abbott went on his first trail drive at the age of ten. At that time, he was living with his parents in Nebraska and helped his father herd cattle home from Texas. The Civil War [...]

By Hope Good Deadwood has been synonymous with the Wild West. From its early days as a lawless gold camp to its transformation into a model Victorian community and a modern center of commerce and [...]

Before he became a murderous outlaw, Kid Curry was a young Montana Cowboy. In 1894, he was ranching with his brother and a friend in what is now Phillips County when local lawman/miner Powell [...]