Swede’s adventures include a summer as a fire lookout, deployment as a U.S. Marine to Korea, and stints as a smokejumper, ski patroller, ambulance EMT, and timber forester. He also worked in wildland fire suppression, aviation management, hunting, assisting Montana Game Wardens, and backcountry rescue.
Read MoreMontana firefighter Dan Steffensen survived a devastating fire in 2021, burning over 60% of his body. Despite slim odds, his community supported him, and author A.J. Otjen tells his inspiring story of resilience amidst tragedy.
Read MoreIn Ruth's later years, she spent time reflecting upon her unique past. The story of her family's farm life and her parents' homesteading lives in Montana are retold in this book.
Read MoreA Fisherman’s Journey is the wonderful chronicle of Zucker’s lifetime of fishing adventures from angling for perch in northern Wisconsin as a small child to fly fishing for arctic grayling as a senior citizen in northwestern Montana.
Read MoreDorothy Bradley's lifelong commitment to Love, Learning, Beauty, Hope, and Heart is infused throughout this collection of short essays and reminiscences.
Read MoreThe previously unpublished personal reflections of Nancy Cooper Russell, wife of Charles M. Russel, Artist. Back-Tracking in Memory will delight all those who love Charles M. Russell and his enduring vision of “the West that has passed.”
Read MoreAttendees and participants will remember all the dazzling colors the highly-embroidered Old World costumes, the flower-bedecked parade floats, and the international flags lining Broadway as well literally hundreds of them strung high in the ceiling of the Veterans Memorial Civic Center, whose dedication in 1950 was the inspiration for the next sixty-seven years of Red Lodge’s annual hometown reunion celebrating the mix of cultures that made our town such a unique place to grow up in, to visit, and to remember.
Read MoreOn the night of October 27, 2007, three teenage girls were walking home after a day of football, family, and fun, when they were struck by an under-age drunk driver in a pickup who fled the scene.
Read MoreIn 1975 Gary and Pam Mount bought Terhune Orchards, a 55-acre farm near Princeton, New J1ersey, determined to create a prosperous working farm and retail operation.Now with 250 acres and hundreds of thousands of visitors each year, the farm is celebrated through the articles Gary published in Terhune Orchard’s newsletter—now collected in this book, illustrated with color and black and white photographs.
Read MoreYou are invited on a journey, from birth to present, of the never-quit, can-do spirit of Frank Smith. He traveled the long road that ultimately led to the American dream as he worked his way into the forest industry and forged ahead to become the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of off-road lowboy trailers for open pit mines.
Read MoreWhile working a summer road crew job in Glacier National Park in 1967, Robert Jewell was handed papers drafting him into the Army. Jewell’s fourteen-month tour exposed him to the horrors and complexities of war and his journey to reconcile these experiences with his civilian life.
Read MoreThe follow-up to Adventures of a Montana Misfit: Coming of Age in the 50’s and 60’s. continues the fascinating story of author Lyle Manley’s young life.
Read MoreFlora Wong retraces her family's odyssey as she shares candid insights, heartbreaking tragedies, and personal triumphs. Hers is a story of an authentic, ordinary person facing extraordinary challenges--the story of one Chinese Montana's long way home.
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