June

Text & Photos by Kent Hanawalt There are four distinct rockpiles on the Ellison Ranch, which is headquartered near the West Boulder River on the Park/Sweet Grass County line. These rockpiles [...]

Viva Rodeo Rodeo traditions are heavily influenced by Spanish-American history. (In fact, “rodeo” means “roundup” in Spanish.) Early Montana cowboys mounted wild mustangs, descended from the [...]

June Dawson County Fair & PRCA Rodeo June 11, Glendive Little Belt Cowboys PRCA Rodeo June 19-20, Belt Fort Benton Summer Celebration & PRCA Rodeo June 25, Fort Benton Little Big Horn [...]

Miles City has always been revered as a cattle town. It’s been a destination for herds from as far away as Texas since the Northern Pacific first arrived in 1881. And in 1934, the Hereford breed [...]

Music has a way of bringing folks together. The strum of strings, the beat of a drum, voices in melody—it invokes something primal in us. Tens of thousands of years ago, our ancestors used art [...]

By Brad Reynolds Being a small business owner presents its obvious challenges. You have corporations to compete with. You have customers to entice. And, as the saying goes, your success is (at [...]

By Brad Reynolds, photo by Bill Watts Wylie Galt Gustafson is about as cowboy as cowboy can get. He’s a horse breeder and rancher. He’s a Western singer-songwriter. He’s a national cutting horse [...]

By Brad Reynolds Legacies are all about history—successes built on the backs of our forefathers, cultural footprints, and emblems of generations gone by. You can look anywhere in Montana and [...]

By Brad Reynolds Wayne and Sandy Thares aren’t the only husband and wife philanthropists in downtown Great Falls, but their business ventures make them among the most recognizable. Wayne is a [...]

By Brad Reynolds White Sulphur Springs always had the potential to be a great small town destination. It’s a community surrounded by mountains and waterbodies. It has its own hot springs, its own [...]