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Montana: Land of uncommon contrasts

August 13, 2012 /

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Montana is a composite; its identity defined by the beholder. The journalist Joe Howard saw it as "high, wide, and handsome;" the historian Harry Fritz as "a land of contrast;" and K. Ross Toole described "an uncommon land."

East to west, Montana’s landforms vary from an occasional saline, wind-whipped desert to lush wheat fields to unexpected snow-clad peaks. The engines of our economy are advanced by solitary artists and oil and gas roughnecks, by bankers, balers and bartenders. The author Wally Stegner reminded us that out this way we have "more fry cooks than farmers."

By PAT WILLIAMS

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