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Wearing britches and catching cutthroats, circa 1934. Montana Whiskey
Co. founder's grandmother and great aunt with the day's catch.
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SITE OF MACLEAN'S SHORT STORY "BLACK GHOST"
Fish Creek
[Maclean's] description of the inferno is nightmarish, surreal, even expressionist :
"IT WAS A WORLD OF STILL-WARM ASHES THAT HAD INCUBATED ONCE-HOT HOLES. THE BLACK POLES
LOOKED AS IF THEY HAD BEEN BORN OF THE GREY ASHES AS THE RESULT OF SOME VAST EFFORT AT SEXUAL
INTERCOURSE AT THE EDGES OF THE AFTERLIFE. WHEN THE VAST EFFORT WAS OVER, IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT
THE POLES WERE BORN DEAD AND THE ASHES THEMSELVES LIVED ONLY BECAUSE THE WINDS MOVED THEM."
