Distinctly Montana Magazine

COLUMBIA FALLS WINERIES page 39 GREAT FALLS KITCHEN WITCH DM Gal page 13 MISSOULA NOTEWORTHY page 35 'CAT/GRIZ page 54 YWCA page 57 DIRT GIRLS DM Gal page 21 SMITH LAKE page 14 BROWNING BLACKFEET SCULPTURE page 25 HELENA VICTOR WINERIES page 39 DENISE JUNEAU page 47 STREET SCENES DM Gal page 7 BOZEMAN GREG SCHEIBEL page 30 RO SHAM BO page 35 STATE FACTS POPULATION 971,741 ENTERED UNION November 8, 1889 CAPITOL Helena SONG Montana LAND AREA 145,392 Square Miles WATER AREA 1,746 Square Miles SIZE RANKING IN U.S. 4th LENGTH 630 Miles WIDTH 280 Miles HIGHEST POINT 12,799 Feet, Granite Peak LOWEST POINT 1,820 Feet, Kootenai River STATE NICKNAME Treasure State MOTTO "Oro y Plata" (Gold and Silver) ANIMAL Grizzly Bear BIRD Western Meadowlark BUTTERFLY Mourning Cloak FISH Blackspotted Cutthroat Trout FLOWER Bitterroot GRASS Bunch Wheatgrass TREE Ponderosa Pine FOSSIL Maiasaura, or Duck-Billed Dinos GEMSTONE Agate and Sapphire 62 'CAT/GRIZ page 54 AMY SOWERS DM Gal page 8 DIRT GIRLS DM Gal page 21 Did YELLOWSTONE RIVER KESSELHEIM page 19 CENTENNIAL VALLEY CATTLE DOGS page 42 ENNIS DIRT GIRLS DM Gal page 21 WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS SARAH CALHOUN DM Gal page 16 YOU KNOW? NANCY PEARL, a nationally recognized librarian, recently noted in Publishers Weekly that she is an obsessive reader of books about Montana, the place with the sky where nothing gets in the way. She listed the best books "to read before you die." FICTION One Sweet Quarrel by Deirdre McNamer The Girls from the Five Great Valleys by Elizabeth Savage The Corner of Rife and Pacific by Thomas Savage Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley The Edge of the Crazies by Jamie Harrison NONFICTION Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban Homestead by Annick Smith AND TWO GREAT COLLECTIONS Writing Montana: Literature Under the Big Sky The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology What books would you recommend? DISTINCTLY MONTANA | DIGITAL For more personal takes on living in Montana, go to... www.distinctlymontana.com/whywelivehere DISTINCTLY MONTANA • FALL 2012

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