Donna Allison’s cabin photo


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Bonanza Creek Guest Ranch

Since the 1870′s Montana ranchhands have roamed the range and worked cattle along the banks of Bonanza Creek. A century later, very little has changed…we’ve just now set a place at the table for you.
We offer new trails every day, cattle work, team penning and good ranch horses to do it all on. No head to tail stuff. Horses are available for the advanced rider or the beginner and those in between with lessons available. Handicap riding is also available.

Petra and Vanessa


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Bonanza Creek Guest Ranch

Since the 1870′s Montana ranchhands have roamed the range and worked cattle along the banks of Bonanza Creek. A century later, very little has changed…we’ve just now set a place at the table for you.
We offer new trails every day, cattle work, team penning and good ranch horses to do it all on. No head to tail stuff. Horses are available for the advanced rider or the beginner and those in between with lessons available. Handicap riding is also available.

Karrer – Indian interior


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Bonanza Creek Guest Ranch

Since the 1870′s Montana ranchhands have roamed the range and worked cattle along the banks of Bonanza Creek. A century later, very little has changed…we’ve just now set a place at the table for you.
We offer new trails every day, cattle work, team penning and good ranch horses to do it all on. No head to tail stuff. Horses are available for the advanced rider or the beginner and those in between with lessons available. Handicap riding is also available.

Trail Riding Western Montana

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Horseback Riding In Montana

Climb into the saddle and join a rich Montana tradition of horses, riders, and packers. Richer, though, than this heritage is the land from which it springs. From the back of a horse, you can glimpse country in Glacier National Park, in major national forest lands, and in wilderness areas of western Montana few people ever see. Ride along the Rocky Mountain Front where the prairie meets rocky escarpments and explore other great Montana mountain ranges-Swans, Bitterroots, Gallatins, and beyond. From horseback you will enjoy the same vantage point held by nomadic tribes, early explorers, and hard-working cowhands and wranglers. Trail Riding Western Montana is the only trial guide written specifically for the Big Sky State’s horseback riders and is chock-full of tips on the best trails for horses, equine first aid, and preparing yourself and your horse for the rigors of backcountry riding. Trail descriptions, maps, and photos provide first-hand information for short day rides and extended pack trips. Also included are packstock regulations. Don’t forget to pack Trail Riding Western Montana in your saddlebags before you head out on your next backcountry riding adventure.

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little bastard


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get back in the water an grow up!

Joseph Nessel, Butte, Montana (1901)


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Joseph Nessel, Butte, Montana (1901)

Fish, Cured and Salted Meats
Produce and Groceries

Image taken from pg 46 of Souvenir history of the Butte Fire Department by Peter Sanger, Chief Engineer.
View entire book at the Montana Memory Project.

Unique ID: mze-butt1901 pg 46

Type: Pamphlet

Contributors: Sanger, Peter, Peoples Pub. Co. Butte, Mont.

Date Digital: September 2009

Date Original: November 1901

Source: Butte Digital Image Project at Montana Memory Project (read the book)

Library: Butte-Silver Bow Public Library in Butte, Montana, USA.

Rights Info: Public Domain. Not in Copyright. Please see Montana Memory project Copyright statement and Conditions of Use (for more information, click here). Some rights reserved. Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works.

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City Market, Butte, Montana (1901)


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City Market, Butte, Montana (1901)

Fruits, Vegetables, Butte and Eggs
Fish and Game in Season

Image taken from pg 38 of Souvenir history of the Butte Fire Department by Peter Sanger, Chief Engineer.
View entire book at the Montana Memory Project.

Unique ID: mze-butt1901 pg 38

Type: Pamphlet

Contributors: Sanger, Peter, Peoples Pub. Co. Butte, Mont.

Date Digital: September 2009

Date Original: November 1901

Source: Butte Digital Image Project at Montana Memory Project (read the book)

Library: Butte-Silver Bow Public Library in Butte, Montana, USA.

Rights Info: Public Domain. Not in Copyright. Please see Montana Memory project Copyright statement and Conditions of Use (for more information, click here). Some rights reserved. Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works.

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Due North of Montana: A Guide to Flyfishing in Alberta

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Fishing In Montana

Are you tired of flyfishing those brand-name U.S. trout streams that promise big fish but produce mostly big crowds? Then a trip to Alberta is the perfect solution, and “Due North of Montana” is the guidebook you’ll need.

A few hours’ drive from some of the most famous trout waters in the lower forty-eight will take you to rivers you’ve probably never heard of before—rivers like the North Raven, where you’ll find big browns rising in a spring creek; or the Elk River, touted as perhaps the best westslope cutthroat stream in North America.

Eleven of Alberta’s best southern and central trout streams are covered in this book, from the metropolitan Bow to the precipitous gorge of the Highwood River. Alberta native Chris Dawson tells you where to fish, when to go, and what flies to use. Maps help you locate the rivers and their access points. With “Due North of Montana” you can make your own discoveries in waters that are as uncrowded as America’s rivers twenty years ago.

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Rally hat


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Eric dons a fine Char Bloom hat in efforts to swoon us into believing it will help the "slump"

early October Snow in north Yellowstone


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Fish Tank @ The Fat Cat


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In Missoula

Inventing Montana: Dispatches from the Madison Valley

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Fishing In Montana

“Ted Leeson is taking us in the only direction the literature of angling should go: toward finding our place in the natural world. His voice is indispensable.”—Thomas McGuane

Every summer for two decades, Ted Leeson and a maverick group of close companions have returned to an old ranch house on the benchland overlooking the Madison River. Trout and fly fishing may be at the heart of their ritual return, but their experience goes far beyond the fishing. Leeson contemplates both the human and natural landscape brilliantly: the fly-anglers’ passionate, ironic, and sometimes hilarious allegiances to what they do; the intriguing Madison Valley and its creatures and flowers; the trout town of Ennis; maps and their revelations; the “green-card” experience of living in a place in which you are not native; the nature of leisure.  

Full of wit, surprise, shrewd observation, and wisdom, this book tells a story about creating a place of temporary liberty, and inhabiting a world fashioned of your best imaginings, where you might, for a time, live the potencies of a place that you have shaped and has shaped you. No lover of the very best writing about fly fishing and the natural world can afford to miss this stunning book.

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Hiking in Glacier Park – Montana


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The Ridge Trail behind Mt. Reynolds.

Hiking in Glacier Park – Montana


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The Ridge Trail behind Mt. Reynolds.

Hiking in Glacier Park – Montana


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Hiking Glacier and Waterton Lakes National Parks, 3rd: A Guide to More Than 60 of the Area’s Greatest Hiking Adventures (Regional Hiking Series)

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McCarthy & Choquette, Butte, Montana (1901)


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McCarthy & Choquette, Butte, Montana (1901)

Image taken from pg 46 of Souvenir history of the Butte Fire Department by Peter Sanger, Chief Engineer.
View entire book at the Montana Memory Project.

Unique ID: mze-butt1901 pg 46

Type: Pamphlet

Contributors: Sanger, Peter, Peoples Pub. Co. Butte, Mont.

Date Digital: September 2009

Date Original: November 1901

Source: Butte Digital Image Project at Montana Memory Project (read the book)

Library: Butte-Silver Bow Public Library in Butte, Montana, USA.

Rights Info: Public Domain. Not in Copyright. Please see Montana Memory project Copyright statement and Conditions of Use (for more information, click here). Some rights reserved. Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works.

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School of fish in Lake McDonald


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August 14, 2010

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Brown trout caught on an elkhair caddis, and released v soon after this picture on Prickly Pear Creek in Montana 2004

Montana


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I just thought this was hilarious. It was in no way posed or set up. This was just stuff laying on the ground.

Bonanza lodge


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Bonanza Creek Guest Ranch

Since the 1870′s Montana ranchhands have roamed the range and worked cattle along the banks of Bonanza Creek. A century later, very little has changed…we’ve just now set a place at the table for you.
We offer new trails every day, cattle work, team penning and good ranch horses to do it all on. No head to tail stuff. Horses are available for the advanced rider or the beginner and those in between with lessons available. Handicap riding is also available.

Herding cattle


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Bonanza Creek Guest Ranch

Since the 1870′s Montana ranchhands have roamed the range and worked cattle along the banks of Bonanza Creek. A century later, very little has changed…we’ve just now set a place at the table for you.
We offer new trails every day, cattle work, team penning and good ranch horses to do it all on. No head to tail stuff. Horses are available for the advanced rider or the beginner and those in between with lessons available. Handicap riding is also available.

Montana


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At the Stockfarm in Montana. Makes you feel pretty small in a big world, and realize you shouldn’t spend time worrying about stuff that doesn’t matter. Live life.

Montana


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My vacation to the Stockfarm in Montana

10 Mile round-trip Hike to the north end of the sandspit near Morro Rock, from the Montana de Oro CA State Park MdO Sandspit parking lo


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10 Mile round-trip Hike to the north end of the sandspit near Morro Rock, from the Montana de Oro CA State Park MdO Sandspit parking lot, 06May2010. Photo by Michael "Mike" L. Baird, mike [at} mikebaird d o t com, flickr.bairdphotos.com; Nikon P6000 w/ built-in GPS, handheld. To use this photo, which has the most liberal Creative Commons Attribution license possible attached, please see the access, attribution, and commenting guidelines at www.flickr.com/people/mikebaird/#credit

44430 Winston Rod Company


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WHILE THE YEAR 1929 is a rather infamous date in financial circles, it is cherished by anglers worldwide. For that is the year, following the stock market crash, that Robert Winther and Lew Stoner acquired the Western Fishing Rod Company of San Francisco. Almost immediately, the bamboo rods these two men built earned a reputation for performance and exceptional quality. These rods were called "Winstons", a contraction of the two men’s last names.

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Why?


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it’s like the pink BB gun:
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can’t we teach a girl to fish without all this cuteness?
^__^

don’t believe the hype.

Have you ever seen any of the above pictured girls actually fishing?
I didn’t see any with Transformers or G.I. Joe on them for the boys.
Not even any with tough looking skulls. Oh, I take it back, I see the edge of a Spiderman fishing pole on the right. Still, he’s kind of a milquetoast as far as heros go.

Get back in the kitchen ladies. The outdoors is for menfolk.

AAble252


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Watching the rods, watching the fish-finders. There are decks of cards for solitaire in the slow times.

Fly Fishing Montana: A No Nonsense Guide to Top Waters (No Nonsense Fly Fishing Guidebooks)

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P. C. Gillis, Merchant, Butte, Montana. (1911)


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P. C. Gillis, Merchant, Butte, Montana. (1911)

Image taken from pg 40 of Cartoons and Caricatures of Prominent Men of Montana

Unique ID: mze-cart1911 pg 40

Type: Book

Contributors: J. C. Terry – Artist & Publisher, McKee Printing Co.

Date Digital: November 2009

Date Original: 1911

Source: Butte Digital Image Project at Montana Memory Project (read the book)

Library: Butte-Silver Bow Public Library in Butte, Montana, USA.

Rights Info: Public Domain. Not in Copyright. Please see Montana Memory project Copyright statement and Conditions of Use (for more information, click here). Some rights reserved. Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works.

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Montana 060cmp


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Hop in for the ride of your life.

Any Fish here?


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Dipping our line in a mountain lake.

Montana’s Best Fly Fishing: Flies, Access, and Guide’s Advice for the State’s Premier Rivers

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Fishing In Montana

Local guides and outfitters on techniques and tackle

Whether you want to target trout sipping Tricos on the Missouri, pack in to the South Fork of the Flathead for a wilderness adventure, or simply find a good spot to fish while on a vacation to Glacier or Yellowstone National Park, this guide is the best place to start for a successful fishing trip. With stunning photos, detailed maps and hatch charts for each river, photos and recipes of the most effective fly patterns, and insider information from local guides and outfitters, Montana’s Best Fly Fishing is an essential reference for the best fishing in Big Sky Country.

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Vanessa riding Tia


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Bonanza Creek Guest Ranch

Since the 1870′s Montana ranchhands have roamed the range and worked cattle along the banks of Bonanza Creek. A century later, very little has changed…we’ve just now set a place at the table for you.
We offer new trails every day, cattle work, team penning and good ranch horses to do it all on. No head to tail stuff. Horses are available for the advanced rider or the beginner and those in between with lessons available. Handicap riding is also available.

A ride through the woods


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Bonanza Creek Guest Ranch

Since the 1870′s Montana ranchhands have roamed the range and worked cattle along the banks of Bonanza Creek. A century later, very little has changed…we’ve just now set a place at the table for you.
We offer new trails every day, cattle work, team penning and good ranch horses to do it all on. No head to tail stuff. Horses are available for the advanced rider or the beginner and those in between with lessons available. Handicap riding is also available.

Fodor’s Montana & Wyoming, 4th Edition: with the South Dakota Black Hills (Travel Guide)

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