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...]
Gardiner, Montana—End of the Line
A Town's Raw Mountain Mood at Yellowstone's North Entrance BY LISA BARIL During the summer of 1911, Dorothy Pardo boarded a south-bound locomotive at the red brick train depot in Livingston, Montana. She was destined for the small mountain town of Gardiner at Yellowstone National Park's doorstep. During the leisurely two-hour ride through Paradise Valley, Dorothy leaned out … [Read more...]
The Secret to a Youthful Mind
You Don't Know What You Don't know 01-09-15 BY DAVID S. LEWIS Whatever you happen to be doing at this moment, give this a try—imagine, quite simply, a fish in water. A lake trout, say, swimming in deep water. You might even imagine yourself as this fish. All he’s ever known is water. He starts out in water (as a tender tadpole, or however lake trout start out), barely … [Read more...]
The Apache Kid
BY TOM HORN Originally published in 1904 (The conclusion of Life of Tom Horn) Early in April of 1887, some of the boys came down from the Pleasant Valley, where there was a big rustler war going on and the rustlers were getting the best of the game. I was tired of the mine and willing to go, and so away we went. Things were in a pretty bad condition. It was war to the knife … [Read more...]