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We march happily into another glorious western Montana autumn, following the lead of the University of Montana Marching Band. photo by michael gallacher ...
Jazz Birds

by joe nickell Professor Erick Greene has spent years recording the subtleties of a songbird’s serenade. In his office at the University of Montana recently he listens to the distinct spectrograms of five different lazuli buntin...
Co-workers & Friends Sunday Sisters

by betsy cohenphotos by linda thompson The mood in the car driving back to the Missoulian was sober, having just watched loved ones say goodbye to members of the Montana National Guard at Missoula International Airport in January 2010. During...
Marchi Angus Ranch

by lori grannisphotos by kurt wilson Initially, there was a lot of resistance to the breed in the U.S. because of aesthetics,” says Wagyu cattle rancher Jon Marchi. “People thought they looked like a dairy cow with horns.” Th...
Feels Like Home

by chelsi moyphotos by tom bauer The 83-year-old Italian Renaissance house on the corner of Gerald and Keith avenues has been home to five university presidents, a math professor, a doctor and countless numbers of University of Montana students. So it�...
Zemke's Wolfpack

by fritz neighbor Hub Zemke’s life was made for the movies. There’s really no other way to put it. Born in Missoula to German immigrants, Hubert Zemke was a standout boxer who was nicknamed “The Hub” by none other than legendary Missoulian sport...
Strokes to Victory with Coach Berkoff

by bill speltzphotos by kurt wilson In the first rays of the day, Missoula Aquatic Club swimming coach Dave Berkoff, right, talks with team members before practice begins. Berkoff, with his stopwatch constantly at hand, watches swimmers as ...
25 and counting

written by nick lockridgephotos by kurt wilson and dwan feary The University of Montana Grizzlies run out of the tunnel entering Washington-Grizzly Stadium on Oct. 18, 1986, for the first game in the new facility. “The neatest thing then,...
A Game-day Traditional: Bloody Mary

by jenna cederbergphoto by tom bauer The cocktail might be complicated, but the tradition is simple. Before University of Montana football fans head to their seats inside Washington-Grizzly Stadium, they reach for a Bloody Mary to get them ready for the...
Reading Montana

by barbara therouxphoto by kurt wilson This fall, two organizations that honor and promote authors and literature of the West will present conferences in Missoula from Oct. 5-8: the Western Literature Association and the Humanities Montana Festival of th...
Foul-weather Friend

by bob meserollphoto by michael gallacher It’s October. Many fishermen are now afield with their bird dogs. The day dawns gray and gloomy. A light drizzle falls and there’s a nip in the air. That means just one thing to me: baetis, the foul-weathe...
Bread Basics

by greg patentphotos by michael gallacher In the 1930s, Clive McKay, a professor of animal nutrition at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., showed through his research that diet affected health and longevity in animals. If the same principles could be ap...
Festivals of Plenty

by sherry devlinphotos by kurt wilson and linda thompson Fall may be Missoula’s best-kept secret. The golden air, sprinkled with lightly falling leaves. The long and balmy afternoons. The laughter and loudness of Griz football Saturdays. There are app...
1946 | big hunt

Bonner resident Clarence Nelson has a photograph taken with an elk he shot in 1946. Nelson has the animal loaded onto a vehicle homemade from what had been a Model T. The rifle is an octogan barreled 30-30. Photograph courtesy of R. Wade Nelson ...
Summer Mornings

by greg patentphotoss by michael gallacher Egg casserole with ham, cheese and mushrooms, buttermilk yogurt pancakes or buttermilk cinnamon waffles can perk up anyone’s appetite on a lazy summer weekend morning. I’m not suggesting you make all three a...
Itty-Bitty Flies

by daryl gadbowphoto by michael gallacher (on_the_fly.jpg) During the early years of my fly-fishing evolution, one of my neophyte companions generically referred to any hatch of especially small flies as “itty-bitties.”In his parlance, itty-bitties w...
Summer Fly Box

by bob meserollphotos by michael gallacher It’s 90 degrees in the shade, if you can find any.The river is glassy, not a rise form to be seen.The pale morning duns have long since vanished and it’s hours before the caddis will begin their nightly danc...
Reading Montana

by barbara theroux photo illustration by linda thompson This time of year, libraries, sports shops and bookstores have displays of hiking, camping, fishing and touring books. Locals and visitors look for the best, the one book to give or take to the lak...
Annie Loughlin "The Golf Letters: Tee Tales"

written by Bill Speltz photographed by Tom Bauer Annie Loughlin posed a question of her mother recently, curious about the perpetual frown worn by a mutual acquaintance.“My mother looked at me and said, ‘Well don’t you know at some point your face ...
Mr. Woodworth

Written by BETSY COHENPhotographed by LINDA THOMPSON His name is Jeff Rolston-Clemmer, but this Missoula home remodeling and design expert might as well go by the name “Mr. Woodworth.”Over the past few years, Rolston-Clemmer has quietly plied his tal...