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My good friend Craig Lancaster, a Billings-based author who conjures a poignant and hilarious novel every few months, tagged me as part of a blogging exercise that’s been going around. I’ll chat a bit here about my writing process. (That probably should be “writing processes” because I work in several categories: anthology, narrative history and…

I emailed a complete book manuscript to my publisher yesterday, a full day ahead of the deadline specified in my contract with Globe Pequot Press. The book, Smaller Stories of Greater Yellowstone, is an anthology of seventy-two tales of early adventures in Yellowstone Park by the people who lived them. The stories in the book…

I left my motel half an hour before the scheduled time for Sherman Alexie’s reading—plenty of time, I thought, to walk two blocks to the Wilma Theater and get a good seat. As I turned the corner I saw the line stretched back three quarters of a block. When the pedestrian light changed I rushed…

Yellowstone Gate, an on-line magazine that covers all the news from Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, has published a very nice article about me and my writing. You can also see selections from my collection of first-person accounts of early travel to Yellowstone Park by scrolling under “History.” Any fan of Yellowstone and Teton…

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I will reprise my presentation. “The Montana Gin Marriage Law of 1935” on October 9, 2013, at 3 p..m. at Aspen Point in Bozeman. Look for details under the Events button above. My parents wedding may have been the only one in Montana in August of 1935. Certainly, it was one of very few. The…