Spring 2007



Fishing Lodges Worth the Dry Fly

Homesteading: The Hope and Hardship

"Into the Wild" with Jack Hanna

Montana's Web-based Businesses

Museum of the Rockies Celbrates 50 years


Q Cuisine Restaurant
Michael Schaer is creating a neighborhood along Montana Avenue in Billings. The cornerstone of that community is the Q Cuisine Restaurant which offers bistro comfort food in an eclectically decorated space.





To Catch the Majesty:
The Art of Joe Abbrescia
A breeze glides up the sloped meadow, brushing you softly and then slipping off into the trees. Patches of Indian paintbrush and kinnikinnik variegate the dusty emerald grasses.





Fishing Lodges
Worth the
Dry Fly

Stellar fishing opportunities abound in Montana. Here’s information about a few of the state’s lodges.





Feast or
Famine Hope and Hardship in Montana’s Homestead Years
In the dark, early years of conflict between the Northern and Southern States, when Civil War threatened to forever shatter all that the founding fathers had created, Abraham Lincoln signed a momentous piece of legislation. 




Five Great Things to Do In Spring
No one knows exactly how kite flying got started, but it is believed that kites in one form or another were hanging in the sky in China over 2000 years ago. Rumor has it that the first kite was born when a Chinese farmer tied his hat to a string to keep it from flying away in the wind. 





The Wilma Theatre
Thrives Despite Flood and Fire in Missoula
This bitter cold night movie-goers just trickle in from Higgins Avenue. “Two for the Curse of the Yellow Flower,” one young man asks.
“It’s Curse of the Golden Flower,” says gray-haired Bill Emerson, with a hint of bruised pride in his voice.



Resource Guide: A Montana Calender of Events for May and June
The average square mile of land in Montana contains 1.4 elk, 4 pronghorn antelope, and 3.3 deer.










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