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HALLIE ZOLYNSKI is a freelance writer and photographer
living in Butte with a small outdoor business called
The Nomadic Ice Axe teaches outdoor education.
When not teaching you can find her out roaming
the remote backcountry of Montana. Articles have
been in Outside Bozeman, Bozeman's Own and MSU Field Guide
focusing on the outdoor life and rural Montana.
IN SEARCH OF THE AMERICAN INCOGNITUM
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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 pro-
ducing "Chrysti the Wordsmith" at MSU's radio facility, KGLT-
FM, since 1990.
OLD BROKE RANCHER
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GARY SHELTON was born in Lewistown in 1951 and has
been a rancher, a railroader, a biker, a teacher, a
hippie, and a cowboy. Now he's trying his hand at
writing in the earnest hope that he'll make enough
at it to make a down payment on an RV. Hell, scratch
that. Enough to buy the whole RV.
THE SALISH DISCOVERY
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DOUG STEVENS (aka "graytrekker"), is a retired sci-
entist and college educator. He is also a freelance
writer and photographer living near Polson. Part of
his experience of Montana's grandeur is not only
backpacking through and photographing its epic
scenery, but in tracing the footsteps of those who
have gone before—learning their stories and their impacts on
today's life and landscapes. Doug's printshop can be found at:
graytrekker.darkroom.tech/
TRAVELERS' REST
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LINDSAY TRAN 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 preser-
vation. She enjoys gardening, hiking, reading, and
horror movies.
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