A review of 'Into the Valley' by Ruth Galm.
Items by Charles Finn
Review of “The Story of My Heart by Richard Jefferies: As Rediscovered by Terry Tempest Williams and Brooke Williams.”
The greatest misconception about Western deserts is that they’re vacant.
It was no secret I didn’t want to leave the West.
"100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do," Kim Stafford’s memoir of his brother’s suicide, is more heartwarming than depressing
The author celebrates the (temporary) return of winter in Montana
A fresh-chopped mountain of wood is the prettiest site in the world.
Meeting wilderness on its own terms, without bear spray
The anthology West of 98: Living and Writing the New American West assembles the thoughts of 67 Western writers.
After 20 years in the West he loves, a writer is forced to move back East.
Is a more-or-less trained and captive wolf anything at all like a truly wild wolf?
Glen Chamberlain's short stories bring to life the people of a fictional Montana town.
A lover of old Western architecture spends his days dismantling and recycling tumbledown buildings.
An author's harrowing journey through the grocery store, and a wide range of emotions.
Charles Finn has had the carcass of a Canada goose in the
back of his pickup for a week, pondering its life and death as he
drives through the Montana winter.
Charles Finn discovers a place of power, inside a circle
of stones.
At the Rolling Dog Ranch Animal Sanctuary in Montana,
blind horses, dogs and cats find a second chance.
The writer spends time watching snowy owls
The author's cabin one fall attracted a family of
super-hungry bears
The writer climbs to Lolo Peak and finds it the center of
everything — without the ski area, golf courses and condos
proposed by a developer
A spring day in Montana leads to an encounter with
sandhill cranes, and with beauty
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