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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.

Jungle Jack Hanna...
and His Big Sky Dream
Jack Hanna — the silver-haired, animal expert from television talk shows, recognized rejuvenator of the Columbus (Ohio) Zoo, and longtime world traveler as host of “Jack Hanna’s Animal Adventures”— loves Montana. He discovered the Big Sky State in 1982, when he was invited to speak in Billings.

Museum of the Rockies
celebrates 50 years
Bozeman’s Museum of the Rockies just keeps getting better with age. This world-class museum is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2007 with a roster of exhibits, educational events, and parties bigger and better than anything it has done before. It is also transforming itself with an eye on the next 50 years and beyond.

The Elemental Architecture of Richard Wyman Smith
To some Flathead Lake locals, many of whom are used to a bounty of grand designs along the lake, Joan and Richard Schleicher have the most beautiful home in the area. Tucked into the hillside, it nestles a shoreline where the daily drama ranges from glistening sunshine to rosy-hued mountains and dark tempests.

Getting the Scoop
on Wilcoxson’s Ice Cream
The morphing of taste and texture, of cool, creamy, and sweet, from hard to supple to fluid on your tongue is ice cream’s magic. All life’s sorrows melt away for as long as the ice cream lasts. And this escape is accessible to all (except perhaps lactose-intolerant diabetics).

Rx for Open Land
Montana is a land of wide open spaces, majestic mountain vistas, and calm stretches of wild streams. It is a state where fields of wheat still line rural highways, and the back road is the preferred route of travel. It is a state where a wandering soul can still get lost.

Business by the Web
Zoot Enterprises and RightNow! Technologies are leading software companies in Montana. But many others, large and small, depend on the Internet and Web sites to reach well beyond our state's boundaries. This is a story of three innovative types in our new virtual world.

Allergies and the Air We Breathe
It’s mid-April in Montana. The rivers are flowing without impediment, the ice jams have melted, and the water remains crystal clear before the runoff begins in a month or two.

Bozeman Deaconess
Opens New Facility for Surgical Patients
The new coordinated surgical care facility at Bozeman Deaconess Hospital offers “wrap-around” services for patients having inpatient surgery, one-day surgery and those scheduled for diagnostic and interventional procedures.