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THE FLATHEAD LAKE MONSTER PAGE 12
EDNOR THERRIAULT'S books include Myths and Legends
of Yellowstone, Seven Montanas, and Montana Curi-
osities, the best-selling title in Globe Pequot's Curi-
osities series. His latest project, Haunted Montana,
has just been released. He's also a musician (Bob
Wire) and lives with his wife Shannon in Missoula.
I DIDN'T DIE IN MONTANA
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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.
LIGHTNING IN THE WILD
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Bozeman wildlife biologist BRUCE SMITH is an
award-winning author of five nonfiction books of
natural history, science, and outdoor adventure,
including Life on the Rocks: A Portrait of the Amer-
ican Mountain Goat, which won the National Out-
door Book Award. His new middle-grade eco-adventure trilo-
gy, Legend Keepers, costars an orphaned mountain goat and a
twelve-year-old boy.
THE LAKOTA DELEGATION
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WHEN STEAMBOATS RULED MONTANA'S WATERS PAGE 36
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, materi-
al culture and ethnohistory. Previous publications
appeared in Montana The Magazine of Western
History, Plains Anthropologist and American Indian Quarterly.
WILD WEST WORDS
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CHRYSTI "THE WORDSMITH" SMITH was born some de-
cades ago in Poplar, where she misspent her youth
riding 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.
SOUTHWEST MONTANA'S HOT SPRINGS
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CHARLIE DENISON is a freelance writer and newspa-
per editor who—10 years ago—fell in love with hot
springs (and a beautiful Montana native), inspiring
the Indiana native to make Montana his long-term
home. When not writing or soaking, he enjoys
playing music and exploring more of the Treasure State with
his wife. They live in Boulder.
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