His Legacy Was a Series of Remarkable Firsts, Including the Nobel Prize BY BOB BROWN President Obama isn’t the first American President to win the Nobel Peace Prize.  The first President, as well as the first American, to receive that coveted honor was a one-time member of the Montana Stock Grower’s Association. Theodore Roosevelt was […]

And Shakedown Artists like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton Know It BY DAVID S. LEWIS The Montana Pioneer fielded an inquiry recently from Alyssa Litoff, a producer at Nightline, ABC’s late night news show. The request was simple—any photo we might have of a certain Bozeman real estate developer. No mention was made, at first, […]

…Robert Redford Never Made by David Stein If a roughneck arms peddler rode in telling three different stories how his wife died in the wilderness, a good detective might suspect foul play and start asking questions. The suspect is Andrew Garcia, author of the Montana classic Tough Trip Through Paradise, edited by my late father […]