Where in Montana do you live? My wife an I met in Bozeman. My great grandparents were homesteaders in Montana.
My grandfather wanted to strangle Chet Huntley for telling everyone in Hollywood to go up there. He hated him because it was Chet who began calling Montana Big Sky country.
It used to be called the Treasure State because of its status as the country’s foremost producer of metallic treasure—gold, silver, and, most importantly, copper.
The copper Kings of Butte are even involved in a landmark Supreme Court case that ruled the person who owned the land on top, owned the minerals under it, even if the minerals went diagonally into their neighbors property.
Their neighbor would still own the land on top, but the minerals under it belonged to the guy who owned the land the minerals were originally tapped at the peak from.
The ruling spelled the inevitable demise and bankruptcy of the losing copper king. Any way, great country, and the best fly fishing in the world. Especially on the Gallatin River in the canyon. My grandfathers property had the Gallatin river as his own private backyard fly fishing area.
Sop where in Montana do you live?
Bighorn river country. I’m from Alaska and Washington and have only lived here for 8 years. Love the agates and trout fishing but other than the long winters of Alaska I miss it in a way that cannot be measured. I don’t miss one minute of uber liberal Washington. SF of the North.