The moment in 1947 when the man who would write the 1964 Wilderness Act first got on a horse for a ten-day pack trip into the Wyoming wilderness.

The giant entered Yellowstone National Park squeezed into the back seat of a white Ford Model 81A DeLuxe sedan, arms akimbo, knees spread wide. It was June 27, 1938, and he was a famous writer scribbling notes for a big novel.

In the 1930s, Rosalie Edge helped spark the park's revolution in predator ecology. Why has nobody heard of her?

Rosalie Edge also raised hell in Montana, to the great benefit of its American white pelicans.

Howard Zahniser's inspriation for the 1964 Wilderness Act came at a potential dam site in Wyoming's Bighorn mountains.

In 1879, Yellowstone superintendent Philetus Norris made a fateful call that epitomized the park’s relationship with Indigenous people—and thus with the world

Famous for his epic hikes and the wilderness area named for him in Montana, Bob Marshall’s impact spread around the nation.

In his new book, Crossings, author Ben Goldfarb charts a course through the complicated intersection of roads and ecology -- with particular implications for greater Yellowstone.

After Yellowstone rangers slaughtered 4,300 elk in 1961 to try and control overpopulation, zoologist Starker Leopold advocated systematic, scientific management of natural areas—a revolutionary approach at the time.

Like a country music song, the rise of fall of the 1910s cowboy movie actor William S. Hart ends with a sort of redemption—and a surprising Montana twist.

A literary giant, Dashiell Hammett invented the American private detective novel. His books The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man became legendary movies.  Why did he set his first novel  in Butte?

In the 1990s, when I was a young writer hoping to improve, I did a very ‘90s thing. I joined a listserv. WriterL was like my MFA in Creative Nonfiction, except that it was just a few minutes of my Inbox every day for fifteen years. 

At 2:00 a.m. on June 7, 1896, a Great Northern train pulled into the station at Blackfoot, Montana, bringing three Yale graduates to some of the last great stretches of the fabled American West.

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