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LARCH MADNESS PAGE 14
DOUG SCHMITTOU resides in Billings and is a freelance
writer. His research focuses on travel in the North-
ern Rockies, evidence-based wellness protocols,
and nineteenth-century Plains Indian art, material
culture and ethnohistory. Previous publications
appeared in Montana The Magazine of Western
History, Plains Anthropologist and American Indi-
an Quarterly.
MONTANA'S MYSTERIOUS ROCK SHOW
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HOLLY MATKIN is a native Montanan who lives with
her husband at the foot of the Elkhorn Moun-
tains. She covers a wide variety of topics as a
freelance writer for multiple local and national
publications, and especially enjoys writing travel,
history, and human interest pieces.
GOLD! MONTANA'S STAMPEDE
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PATTI ALBRECHT is a fifth-generation Montanan.
She opened Earth's Treasures Fossil & Min-
eral Museum in Bozeman in 1989. Besides
exploring with her grandkids, she enjoys
panning, hiking and writing. Articles have
appeared in Montana Parent and Outside
Bozeman. Her passion is rockhounding.
EAST TO GOLD MOUNTAIN
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HEADFRAME SPIRITS PAGE 44
WE DIED AN EASY DEATH PAGE 54
SHERMAN CAHILL is a freelance writer who lives in
Butte, Montana. He enjoys film, Westerns, crime
fiction, and residing in the best city in America, if
not the world.
WILD WEST WORDS
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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.
I AWAIT THE DEVIL'S COMING
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LINDSAY DICK is a freelance copywriter living and
working in Missoula. Originally from Bozeman,
her writing and research interests include history,
health and wellness, literature, and historic pres-
ervation. She enjoys gardening, hiking, reading,
and horror movies.
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