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A Tribute to Bob
Barbee: Part 1by John Baden
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Feeding Bears in Yellowstone circa 1930s
Feeding Bears in Yellowstone circa 1930s
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Trekking With Llamas
by Susi Sinay
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Yellowstone and
the Park Service Centennialby John Baden
An Economist's View of
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Black Gold:
The Obsidian Cliff LegacyBy Daniel J. Smith
Long ago, in the rarefied dawn of prehistory, a
paleo-Steve-Jobs noticed... -
Proud Mountains Tall
Love of land and geology...
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Discovering First Montanans:
Portals to the Pastby Les Davis
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The Sheepeaters:
Keepers of the Pasta film by Daniel J. Smith
Features
The Well
Writings By:
Ken Sinay - Wild Thoughts
(Ken Sinay's Blog)
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Daniel J. Smith - YellowstoneGeo
(Colter's Hell)
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Zach Mills - Wildness
(a naturalist in Yellowstone)
New! The Wildness Element
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David Quammen - Journeys
(David Quammen's blog)
July 2014, Teton Wilderness, Wyoming
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Jacob Thacker - Geo View
(a geologist's view of Yellowstone)
New! The Beartooth Plateau and Beartooth Highway
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John Baden - FREE Insights
(on liberty, ecology & prosperity)
New! Bob Barbee: A Great Leader
of the World's First National Park
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Wisdom of the Elders Web Book
Written by Jerry Johnson
In Native American culture tribal members often turned to the wisdom of their elders for leadership and vision. Elders were not always the oldest or even the wisest. They were irreplaceable keepers of...
Watch The Bozeman Videos
Written by TIY Staff
Bozeman is a special place located on the western slope of the northern Rockies in a valley known as "the valley of flowers." Lewis & Clark traveled through the Gallatin valley in their epic trans...
Les Davis 1935-2014
Written by Daniel J. Smith
Les Davis had a fascination with paleoindians, or the first Montanans. For nearly the last fifty years of his life he trapsed the vast and arid landscapes of the Big Sky country imagining the ea...
Ed George 1945-2016
Written by Daniel J. Smith
Yesterday I received the sad news that good friend and associate Ed George passed away over the weekend. He had just returned from a vigorous bike ride. Ed spent much of his life defying t...
"Saffire" the New Music Video by Jim Averitt
Written by TIY Staff
Montana singer-songwriter Jim Averitt just released his new music video, Saffire, about the desires of a traveling musician, here one night and gone the next. As is the lore and sometimes realit...
Black Gold: The Obsidian Cliff Legacy
Written by Daniel J. Smith
Lustrous black Yellowstone obsidian. Photo by Daniel J. Smith.Long ago, in the rarefied dawn of prehistory, a paleo-Steve-Jobs noticed that when he broke a piece of obsidian, the edge of the fracture ...
Proud Mountains Tall
Written by TIY Staff
Proud Mountains Tall is a joint creative collaboration by Eric Kucinski and Jacob Thacker. Born from a longing to travel and explore, PMT's adventures are a solid mix of Art and Science. Compositing T...
Trekking With Llamas
Written by Susi Hülsmeyer-Sinay
In summer it’s time to venture into the backcountry and camp under the stars, sit by the campfire, listen to wolves howl in the night, wake to calls of cranes at sunrise. Yellowstone National Park bec...
Bob Barbee: A Great Leader of the World's First National Park
Written by John Baden
This FREE Insight is the first of a three part series honoring former Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Robert Barbee. FREE enjoyed preparing this e-publication by working with Dan Smith* of Oo...
A Thousand Winters Ago
Written by Les Davis
After breaking camp on a foggy July morning in 1975, the leadoff survey crew loaded up and headed on down the Missouri River by johnboat. We were searching for evidence of archaeological sites eroding...
Ken Sinay Channeling John Colter
Written by Daniel J. Smith
A cross between John Colter and William Clark, with a voice echoing James Earl Jones, a biologist, a beekeeper, a conservationist, Ken Sinay is one of the most passionate and colorful Yellowstone guid...
The Beartooth Plateau and Beartooth Highway (US 212)
Written by Jacob Thacker
To the northeast of Yellowstone National Park lies the Beartooth Highway, one of the most beautiful stretches of road in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Though this high altitude traverse is occasi...
Discovering First Montanans: Portals to the Past
Written by Les Davis
Illustrated by Montana Artist Kit Mather
Twice Upon Historic Times
That Italian ship captain Christopher Columbus discovered the New World has long been accepted as a fact by historians and other sc...
The Sheepeaters: Keepers of the Past
Written by Daniel J. Smith
This was my project in film school back in 1990. I became fascinated with the Sheepeater Indians when I learned of their mountain lifestyle as opposed to the Plains Indians who hunted buff...
Connor Garvey @ Cikan House
Written by Daniel J. Smith
Connor Garvey is a musical force, a force that is somehow more than the sum of its parts - the parts being songwriting, personality, musicianship, charisma... Each part stands alone, but, taken as a w...
The Well
Writings By:
Ken Sinay - Wild Thoughts
(Ken Sinay's Blog)
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Daniel J. Smith - YellowstoneGeo
(Colter's Hell)
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Zach Mills - Wildness
(a naturalist in Yellowstone)
New! The Wildness Element
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David Quammen - Journeys
(David Quammen's blog)
July 2014, Teton Wilderness, Wyoming
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Jacob Thacker - Geo View
(a geologist's view of Yellowstone)
New! The Beartooth Plateau and Beartooth Highway
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John Baden - FREE Insights
(on liberty, ecology & prosperity)
New! Bob Barbee: A Great Leader
of the World's First National Park
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