IRVIN ATCHISON lived a hard life as a young man growing up around Sidney, Montana, in the difficult times of the 1920s and 1930s. He had a way with horses and a hardscrabble life. When he joined the US Army, he had no idea that his skill would take him to the mountains of Hawaii to train mules in preparation for the coming War.
Read MoreIn Search of the Mount Cleveland Five is a true story about the coming-of-age of the author that races through twenty-two years of climbing endeavors with colorful Montana climbers and their close calls, antics, and tears.
Read MoreAnimal rescuer and author, Debi Pace, has referred to her home as the “Kennel of Last Resort.”
Wherever Pace has lived, she has volunteered at the local shelter or humane society, and for the last fifteen years she has taken in the hardest cases and worked hands-on to rehabilitate and rehome animals―and kept a running cast of characters in her life from collies to kittens to a cockabeagador. These stories celebrate the countless dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, and other creatures who have made their homes with her and that she has restored to health, rehomed with new families, or helped over the “rainbow bridge.”
Read MoreIf you’re ready to live as a diehard fly fisherman in the land of the midnight sun, you’d better be prepared to weather several long months of midnight. Set against the backdrop of a life spent in the latitudes of the Far North, follow the author as he casts about in search of arctic grayling, rainbow trout, and the ultimate truths in life.
Read MoreSwede's adventures include a summer on a fire lookout, deployment as a Marine to Korea, smokejumping, fire suppression, timber forester, aviation management, hunting assisting Montana Game Wardens, ski patrol, an ambulance EMT, and back country rescue.
Read MoreThe true story of a Slovenian peasant boy who becomes a concert bassoonist and must flee Paris when the First World War begins a Viennese kitchen maid who receives money from a mysterious benefactor and off she goes to America, a scrappy gold prospector who faces off against one of the most powerful men in the state, and a girl who grows up in a Wild West saloon…
Read MoreThe West has a storytelling history, and everyone has a story. This is artist Theodore Waddell’s—an illustrated mosey through the landscape, livestock, and colorful characters that made up his life as a cattleman in a remote part of Central Montana.
Read MoreIn vignettes both touching and tragic, Waiting for the Revolution relates a deeply personal story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the rise and fall of the Communist Party in eastern Montana.
Read MoreMargit Chinkes lived through the Holocaust but never shared her story—How a fourteen-year-old German girl in Frankfurt was picked up by the Gestapo in 1944, endured and survived the horrors of that time.
Read MoreOnce hailed by Time magazine as "the Johnny Appleseed of nature museums," John Ripley Forbes arguably did as much as anyone in history to keep the wonders of nature alive for America's children.
Read MoreThis is the story of many of the long-forgotten first settlers of old Dawson County and how they met the challenges of a country that was then primitive and remote at its best and deadly at its worst.
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