I live in western Montana and have always been intrigued by old abandoned homes and building that I see all over the state. One of the things that always comes to my mind when I see one of these old homesteads is the thought that someone worked very hard to try to make that place […]
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The Home That was Built to Last
There is a stone house that stands by itself in a cow pasture along highway 12/287 near Winston Montana that has intrigued many. In a time period when life in the west was a remote adventure and homestead structures were thrown together with logs, and don’t last long, the stone house stands just as straight […]
True Cowboys of the West
The title of Cowboy can mean many different things in this day and age. We think of a cowboy as someone who trains horses, or rides in the rodeos, or maybe a cattle rancher who still uses horses to work cattle, but being a cowboy was something different a 100 years ago. When someone talks […]
The Millionaire Who Never Knew It
Sometimes it seems that life deliberately hides things from you until the opportunity has passed you by like a breath of wind that suddenly goes calm before you knew it was really there. Life in the west is no different. A man known simply as Dick was someone who never felt the wind of fortune, even […]
Homesteading the West
When you see old homesteads around the west, they look lonely and forlorn. Most people don’t think much about them, but to me they are monuments to what the life in the west was really like. They are usually very small and very short, crudely built and way too simple to be comfortable. There are […]