Feds Set Up Anarchy-Talking Webcaster at Truck Stop BY PETER J. RYAN 05/13/15 On a mild, breezy Wednesday in early Spring, while residents of Livingston went about their daily routines, a bizarre transaction was taking place on the outskirts of town. Two men met in the parking lot of the local truck stop. According to court documents filed March 26 in Park County, … [Read more...]
The Outlaw State of Mind
And the Outlaw Mind of the State 05/12/15 BY DAVID S. LEWIS In the Old West, a thin line ran between law and outlaw. Look at Tom Horn, the Pinkerton detective hanged for murder, and Wyatt Earp, a legendary lawman, but also well disposed to pistol whipping suspects about the face and head—with the 12-inch barrel of his Buntline revolver. The annals of the Old West are, … [Read more...]
On the Outlaw Trail
A Bat Masterson Bar Fight, Tracking the Wild Bunch BY CHARLES A. SIRINGO From Cowboy Detective On returning to Santa Fe [in 1895], I received a telegram from W.O. Sayles [fellow Pinkerton detective], saying that he had found the right trail [of the train robbers we were pursuing], going through Pagosa Springs, and over Mosca Pass into the Wet Mountain Valley. Shortly … [Read more...]
Hunting Morels, Trade Secrets
BY TOM DICKSON 05/12/15 Here’s one, says Larry Evans, reaching under a fallen tree to harvest his find before bounding higher up the charred mountainside. “Here’s another,” he calls out. On this cloudy mid-June morning, I’m trying to follow Evans up an impossibly steep south-facing slope of the Swan Range in the Seeley-Swan Valley. Evans scrambles back down the hillside, bent … [Read more...]
Living in Gardiner, Montana
BY LISA BARIL 05/12/15 The small mountain town of Gardiner, Montana, lies nestled in the shadows of the Absaroka Mountains to the east and the Gallatin Range to the west. Its southern edge meets Yellowstone National Park at the confluence of the Yellowstone and Gardner Rivers, and then stretches three miles northwest along a narrow swath of dry sagebrush scrublands. If … [Read more...]