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A Collection Like No Other

The late Ed Gilliland’s extraordinary historical photo collection will now be preserved forever at Northwest Montana History Museum and available to view online

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Wild Horse’s Wild History

Over the decades, all sorts of plans were concocted for Wild Horse Island: resorts, a power plant, a large marina, farms, an Arabian and Thoroughbred horse operation, hundreds of homesites. But a much better idea won, and today it’s one of Montana’s largest state parks.

Montana

Meet the Joneses

Since purchasing their dream property on Big Mountain, the self-made billionaires have expanded their land portfolio to include nearly one-fifth of all private land in Flathead County. Their aim isn’t to expand their business empire or build an inclusive resort, they say, but rather to create a family legacy and establish a reputation as good neighbors.

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The Wild Within

In his new book ‘Four-Fifths A Grizzly,’ acclaimed Whitefish author and biologist Doug Chadwick turns the microscope lens inward and posits that in order to save the planet, we must first save ourselves

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Facing Main

Foy’s Lake

I love seeing the families gathering at the shore, with the toddlers yelping at the scores of minnows at their ankles

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Over the decades, all sorts of plans were concocted for Wild Horse Island: resorts, a power plant, a large marina, farms, an Arabian and Thoroughbred horse operation, hundreds of homesites. But a much better idea won, and today it’s one of Montana’s largest state parks.

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Project 7

A six-part series on notorious Flathead Valley militia leader David Burgert, who vanished into the wilderness after a shootout with sheriff's deputies in 2011

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Media director Hunter D'Antuono discusses his relationship with documenting the world around him and his thoughts on the 10,000 photos that are part of Ed Gilliand's legacy

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