Distinctly Montana Magazine

2021 // Spring

Distinctly Montana Magazine

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w w w . d i s t i n c t l y m o n t a n a . c o m 9 ORPHAN TRAIN RIDERS OUT WEST PAGE 68 TERESA OTTO is a freelance writer, photographer, and retired pediatric anesthesiologist based in Billings. When she's not traveling around Montana or our big, beautiful world, she serves as a waitress and housekeeper for two rescued cats and a dog. Fol- low her travels at www.thenomadsdaughter.com. NOT JUST C.M. RUSSELL PAGE 72 BRIAN D'AMBROSIO is the author of more than 10 books and his articles have been published in local, regional, and national publications. D'Ambrosio's favorite journalistic topics or subjects: history, music, architecture, vernacular artists, boxing, photography, forgotten inventors, and obscure American poets and authors. Also a private investigator, he may be reached at dambrosiobrian@hotmail.com FROM POKER TO HORSESHOES PAGE 76 BILL MUHLENFELD is the former owner and publisher of Distinctly Montana. Hard to get him to leave, so you may be seeing him in these pages from time- to-time. AFTER THE BURN PAGE 80 LARRY EVANS, named "the Indiana Jones of mush- rooms" by a diplomat in the Russian Far East during the 1990s, has spent years researching mushrooms and nontimber forest products in Asia and the Americas. He is a certified mushroom ven- dor and taught mycology at UM and the Glacier Institute for decades. He is a founder of the Western Montana Mycological Assn. (fungaljungal.org) and has recorded 2 CDs of mushroom music, Fungal Boogie (2003) and Fungal Boogieman (2007) and appeared in Ron Mann's comedocumentary Know Your Mushrooms (2009). WILD WEST WORDS PAGE 92 CHRYSTI "THE WORDSMITH" SMITH was born some decades ago in Poplar, where she misspent her youth rid- ing horses and motorcycles. Putting those things behind her as adult, she turned toward studies in archeology/anthropology at MSU, where she also accidentally discovered radio broadcasting. She has been producing "Chrysti the Wordsmith" at MSU's radio facility, KGLT-FM, since 1990. LINCOLN COUNTY PAGE 92 A native Montanan, BRYAN SPELLMAN has lived all over the state, and now lives in the foothills of the Cab- inet Mountains. A graduate of UC Berkeley, he is now retired from a career centered in the School of Fine Arts at the University of Montana. In retire- ment, he spends his time on weaving, photogra- phy, travel, writing, and, yes, geocaching.

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