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The mission of the Western Heritage Center is telling the stories of the peoples of the Yellowstone River Valley and the Northern Plains. Kevin Kooistra,…

Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and part of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Joy Harjo is the first Native American to be named United States Poet Laureate. For more…

Jason DeShaw is a mental health activist and musician from Montana who has six albums to his name and tours extensively. Behind the scenes, Jason nearly…

Donna Forbes and Gordon McConnell have an artful friendship. The two worked together at the Yellowstone Art Museum in the 1980s (then known as the…

Billings author Danell Jones spent seven years researching and writing about a Sierra Leonean writer and barrister who is the subject of her latest book,…

Poet and memoirist Joe Wilkins was born and raised north of the Bull Mountains, out on the Big Dry of eastern Montana. His debut novel, Fall Back Down…

In 2019, Melissa Kwasny and Mandy Smoker were appointed co-Poets Laureate by Montana governor Steve Bullock. As Poets Laureate and women from marginalized…

Maxim Loskutoff was raised in small towns in the west. His award-winning stories and essays have appeared in numerous periodicals as well as anthologies…

Long before the Sierra Club, there was George Bird Grinnell, a man whose vision and prolific writing launched the American conservation movement to…

On this episode of Field Days, rancher Weston Merrill heads to the Montana Winter Fair, where he learns how to be a better advocate for the agriculture…