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MUSEUM OF MONTANA FLYING PAGE 68
NICK MITCHELL lives with his wife and two children in Kalispell
and has always been interested in Montana and Western history.
He loves a good book, a tasty brew, and his family, though not
in that order. He's only recently started writing, so he'd like it if
you'd be easy on him.
GET TO KNOW WIBAUX COUNTY
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A native Montanan, BRYAN SPELLMAN has lived all over the
state, and now lives in the foothills of the Cabinet 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 retirement, he spends his time on weaving, photography, travel,
writing, and, yes, geocaching.
THE WILD BUNCH TRAIN ROBBER PAGE 88
CHRIS ENSS is a New York Times bestselling author who has been
writing about women of the Old West for more than thirty years. She
has penned more than fifty published books on the subject. Her work
has been honored with nine Will Rogers Medallion Awards, two Elmer
Kelton Book Awards, and a Willa Cather Award from Women Writing
the West. Her recent works include The Doctor Was A Woman: Stories
of the First Female Physicians on the Frontier and An Open Secret:
The Story of Deadwood's Most Notorious Bordellos.
MONTANA MUSINGS
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BILL MUHLENFELD is the former owner of Distinctly Montana
and a self-described serial entrepreneur. When he is not
puzzling over the human condition he enjoys puzzling over
crosswords.
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS
Kansas University
Natural History Museum
National Anthropological Archives,
Smithsonian Institution
Tom Rath
Douglas A. Schmittou
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