What’s a Shaputz? BY DAVID S. LEWIS To answer the question, What’s a shaputz?, requires some background. —Back in school, we mischievous adolescents played the following practical joke on various people, and it never failed to achieve the desired result. When a classmate happened to make what would now be called an insensitive remark about, say, someone’s ethnicity, or … [Read more...]
The Secret to a Youthful Mind
You Don't Know What You Don't know 01-09-15 BY DAVID S. LEWIS Whatever you happen to be doing at this moment, give this a try—imagine, quite simply, a fish in water. A lake trout, say, swimming in deep water. You might even imagine yourself as this fish. All he’s ever known is water. He starts out in water (as a tender tadpole, or however lake trout start out), barely … [Read more...]
The Risk to Hunters in Grizzly Bear Country
It Does Not Always End Well 01-09-15 BY LISA BARIL Thirty years ago, so few grizzly bears roamed southwestern Montana that their image barely registered in the minds of hunters during their annual autumn quest to fill their freezers or tag the bull of a lifetime. They didn't worry much about surprising a sow with cubs or accidentally luring a bruin with elk bugles or cow … [Read more...]
Cowboy Detective
BY CHARLES SIRINGO Originally published in 1912 The writer was born in Matagorda County, Texas, in the extreme southern part of the State, in 1855, and was reared on the upper deck of all kinds and conditions of cow-ponies scattered throughout the Lone Star State, Kansas, Indian Territory and New Mexico. I spent fifteen years continuously in the saddle, seldom ever sleeping … [Read more...]
Montana Joins 16 States Challenging President’s Unilateral Executive Action on Immigration
01-09-15 HELENA – Montana Attorney General Tim Fox issued the following statement after Montana joined 16 other states in legal action challenging President Barack Obama’s recent executive action on immigration: “Under the United States Constitution, the president’s role is limited to faithfully executing the laws passed by Congress. He can neither bypass the peoples’ … [Read more...]