NE Plains Birding Trail: Birds in Northeastern Montana

As we pulled onto Montana 16 to start the trip home, we gave the birds of Medicine Lake rave reviews. We’d spied the piping plover piping, the sharp-tailed grouse dancing their mincing steps, and frenzied ducks and jackrabbits zigging and zagging as a hailstorm pounded our vehicle so loudly the kids couldn’t shout above it…(more)

Five Fabulous Burgers: Top Made-in-Montana Burgers

Faster than a speeding appetite. More portable than the pockets in your blue jeans. So affordable that even freelance writers can splurge on a top-of the-line rendition. It’s the mighty burger, which, day in and day out, fuels more Montanans…(more)

Vanishing Cabins Kindle Artist’s Passion: Michael Ley

Travelers in Montana get an occasional glimpse of an aging homestead cabin along a mountain road or beside a wheat field. Mostly they see a building that is losing its battle against gravity. Michael Ley sees far more. He sees story-telling architecture from the homestead era, an architecture that is slipping away forever. So many are being lost “ they’re being torn down, burned down and just falling down. I wondered how…(more)

Consummate Collection: A Small Town Hosts a Big Collection of Shells

R. D. “Mac” MacCurdy had a passion for seashells. Oh, he collected stamps, coins, minerals, arrowheads, and, being a good Republican, elephant figurines, too. But the short, stocky man who homesteaded near Broadus collected so many shells that even today it would rate as one of the largest private collections in the western U.S. All 22,000 of Mac’s seashells and marine life specimens are not only housed at the Powder River…(more)

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