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Our Crow Poet

Henry Real Bird Is the Real Deal BY DAVID S. LEWIS Moments ago, I walked with Henry Real Bird on Living-ston’s 9th Street Island, along a sandy bank of the Yellowstone’s far channel. Earlier, he had spotted the location from the highway. The Absarokas rise there against the southeastern sky, and Henry wanted it that […]

Mark Twain’s Big Sky Tour

Twain’s Mastery Delighted Audiences, Disarmed Soldiers, Condemned the Corrupt BY GEORGE EVERETT Long after his stints as a newspaperman in the gold and silver camps of Virginia City, Nevada, Samuel L. Clemens was a nationally famous writer and speaker known as Mark Twain. Even as he continued to write during his most prolific period, in […]

Muslims in Montana

Hailing from Illinois to Indonesia BY CAROL SCHMIDT The 29-year-old electrical engineering major from Cicero, Illinois, likes to camp and hunt, has an extraordinarily firm handshake and answers questions with a crisp “Yes, ma’am.” He’s divorced yet passionate about being a good father to his young daughter, is unrelentingly patriotic and has a love affair […]

Harry Rutter Was a Cowboy

Harry Rutter, older years. He Drove Cattle to Montana, Put Away Outlaws, and Got the Girl BY PAT HILL Though his 2009 induction into the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame simply states Harry Rutter was a cowboy, long-deceased friends and surviving family members agree that Rutter was quite a man out of the saddle as […]

Henry Real Bird—Crow Indian, Working Cowboy, Poet Laureate

Crow Culture Survives and Merges with the Modern World through Montana’s Poet Laureate BY PAT HILL Montana’s Poet Laureate Henry Real Bird is a traditional Crow Indian who made his bones in the literary world writing cowboy poetry. “It’s an honor I’m lucky to get…I appreciate it,” said Real Bird, who was selected last September […]

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