March

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 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 [...]

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 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 Catharine Melin-Moser Situated in the Little Snowy Mountains, the town of Forest Grove once bustled feverishly during the central Montana homesteading boom of 1910-1919. Decades passed, [...]

Glacier National Park, named for the glaciers that produced its landscape, became the 10th national park when President Taft signed a bill on May 11, 1910. Straddling the Continental Divide, the [...]