A Tale: A Battle With Fleeing Nez Perce — 1877

March 31, 2011

“I saw half a dozen guns leveled at me so I made myself small as I could…. Bang! bang! bang! then zip! zip! zip! went the balls, but none struck me.”

A Tale: Crashing Through Yankee Jim Canyon in a Wooden Boat — c. 1902

March 27, 2011

“Driving at all of fifteen miles an hour, [the boat] crashed with the shattering force of a battering ram. Indeed, it speaks a lot for her construction that she simply telescoped instead of resolving into cosmic stardust.

A Tale: Ernest Thompson Seton Retells the Story of a Bear Fight

March 26, 2011

“Why, that is the worst Grizzly that ever rolled a log in the Big Horn Basin.”

An Event: Presenting The Best Montana Books of 2010 at Country Bookshelf

March 23, 2011

The Montana Book Award Winner and Honor Books really are great this year.

A Tale: Grandma Told Me Abuse Killed the Handkerchief Pool

March 19, 2011

“We wondered where it [the handkerchief] had been when lost to sight—what it had seen underground, and what tale it could tell if gifted with speech.

A Tale: In a Country Swarming With Grizzly Bears — 1874

March 15, 2011

“Jack fired. Hit him. The bear gave one tremendous yell—looked round a moment—then tore up the ground like mad and flew at the trees, sending the bark flying in all directions. “

Montana Book Award Honors The Last Stand by Nathaniel Philbrick

March 13, 2011

On June 25, 1876, General George Armstrong Custer attacked a coalition of Sioux and Cheyenne near the Little Bighorn River …

Montana Book Award Honors Visions of the Big Sky by Dan Flores

March 10, 2011

Visions of the Big Sky would be a great book to put on your coffee table for your guests to leaf through. But they shouldn’t skip the marvelous text. Neither should you.