Back country Horsemen is a Montana-made idea that has its roots deep in the spirit of Montana’s wild back country. The concept began on a chilly late fall evening in 1971 when four men sat around a campfire deep in the Bob Marshall Wilderness.

Montana’s highways and byways really are perfect for podcasts.  Thousands of miles are coiled along our beautiful state’s long and winding roads.  Even with the radio on, and beautiful scenery to distract, our lonesome, dusty roads can stretch on and on.

The ninth-largest city of Montana, Havre stands a handful of miles away from the Canadian border in North-Central Montana. Havre flourished by riding on the back of the former Great Northern Railway and a major stop on U.S. Highway 2 in later years.

Corn was a well-established English word for any type of edible grain such as wheat, rye, barley, and the like.  In this tradition, English speakers began calling the native maize “Indian Corn.”  In time, American colonists and their descendants adopted and adapted  “Indian Corn” preparations into such traditional dishes as corn pone, chowder, hominy, spoonbread, succotash, hush puppies. 

In 1982, a pair of enthusiastic University of Montana graduate students walked into the office of wildlife biology professor and pioneering bear biologist, Dr. Charles Jonkel, fired up about the plight of the grizzly bear.