Montana Quarterly’s Fall 2007 Issue

By Special Advertiser, 10-01-07

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The Fall 2007 edition of Montana Quarterly has hit newsstands across Big Sky Country. The magazine’s opening feature, written by Bozeman area sports writer Jeff Welsch, looks at the legacy of Wayne Estes, Anaconda’s “gentle 6-foot-6 giant” who, 42 years after his tragic death, still “dominates the high school trophy case the way the abandoned smelter stack still casts a long shadow over the town.” Welsch’s piece, engrossing and terribly sad, honors Estes and the community that cheered for him, and demonstrates, through those who knew Estes best, that there is no statute of limitations on grief.

The magazine also features Scott McMillion’s “Dances with Dinosaurs,” the story of 95-year-old Marion Brandvold of Bynam, Montana, who “changed the world with a coffee can full of dinosaur bones” and helped position Montana on the “dinosaur digger’ map of the world.”

Michael Punke recreates the political strife that led to 1918’s extraordinary special session of the Montana Legislature, which would “effectively repeal the First Amendment, give tyrannical power to a small group of zealots, invade the lives of ordinary Montanans...and set a precedent for a national law that mirrored Montana’s restrictions.”

Alan Kesselheim looks at how one stubborn rancher’s persistence and hard work is preserving fish in the Tongue River; Bill Bilverstone writes of and photographs the Montana National Guard combating the flow of would-be illegal immigrants and drug traffickers in the deserts of New Mexico; Joe Kolman and Thomas Lee open op the governor’s mansion, “a monument to bad planning that is slowly overcoming its portrayal as a blight on the state’s highest office;” John Clayton and Thomas Lee peer into Montana’s Bighorn Canyon and much more.

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