"Fifty-six Counties: A Montana Journey" by Russell Rowland

It’s a good thing Billings writer Russell Rowland got a second opinion.

The first time he pitched the idea of traveling to all of Montana’s 56 counties to write a book about them, an editor Rowland was dating in San Francisco at the time said it was an awful idea and no one would buy his book.

Rowland made a second pitch more than a decade later to a different editor after his novel, "High and Inside," was published, and his two-year journey began. Now he’s traveling Montana again to sell copies of the book, "Fifty-six Counties: A Montana Journey." http://www.bangtailpress.com/fifty-six-counties-a-montana-journey-by-russell-rowland/ Rowland’s book tour will stop at 16 Montana cities from Broadus to Polson and take him to Idaho and Washington.

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