Just how did Montana end up with such a patchwork of unique counties? Examination of historic maps reveals the inexorable expansion of humanity across the territory and, later the state. The peopling and populating of Montana can be told in the origins of its counties.
It was a typical, rural Montana, early spring night featuring a cloudless, ink black sky with corner to corner stars, so bright they almost hurt your eyes to look at through the thin, frosty air. I wasn’t losing sleep to stargaze on this night though, and only caught occasional glimpses of the night sky through a crack in the barn door while wrestling with an old ewe.
For twelve years, the blistering fast pace of O-Mok-See, a colorful event on horseback, has caught up with Linda Andrews.
“Participating in O-Mok-See is my reward. I started after I had cancer surgery, and survived. My horse is twenty-three and still ‘rockin’ it.”
Tomatoes are treasures of the garden and many of us wait in great anticipation for that first delicious bite. The good news is even in Montana’s short season, practically anyone can grow this prolific and scrumptious fruit.
A visit to Dr. Dan Walker’s office is a step into a pioneer log cabin custom built to receive patients much like the building that housed an earlier generation of Walker medicos.
Town of Floweree. View is south to Little Belt Mountains. Pioneer town is cluster of gray buildings in middle of photo.
