And this one called "The Fall of the Cowboy" by Frederic Remington as well...
I like the colors in "Where Wild West Went" by Stephen Morath...
I bet Woody would like Montana...
Montana is...
Montana is also a good place for rainbows, either the fishy type shown in this picture called "Rainbow Trout" by Eileen Klatt -
Or the kind this cowboy is looking at in "Fringe Benefit" by Duane Bryers -
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Montanan's take a lot of pride in John Steinbeck's love of Montana.
Steinbeck's Travel's With Charley has some of his travels in Montana. Some of which are described in words and beautiful pictures in About Montana | The University of Montana.
If you aren't familiar with the book, this review by Edward Bosnar (Zagreb, Croatia), one of Amazon's Top 1000 Reviewer's, provides a look at Travels With Charley -
"Still very fresh
It's amazing how relevant Steinbeck's observations of America are forty years after he wrote this book. In fact, much of what he says seems to apply even more now than when he first wrote it, such as when he observes: "the mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if in no other way, we can see the wild and wreckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index." In a similar vein, he wonders, when considering the expansion of large cities, "why progress looks so much like destruction." Steinbeck's sarcasm also comes to the surface when he notes some of the many odd habits and leisure activities of Americans, such as antique-hunting in omnipresent antique shops, which he felt were "bulging with authentic and attested trash from an earlier time." He was also quite impressed with the country's intrepid hunters, to whom he feared his poodle Charley would look like a buck deer. After spending an evening in Maine with some migrant farms workers from Quebec, he expressed (rather vainly, in retrospect) his hope that the country would not some day be overwhelmed "by people not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat." Far from being simply critical though, what comes out of this book is Steinbeck's great love for the country. His view that the "American identity is an exact and provable thing" still rings true today. "Travels with Charley" is not just classic travel literature, it is also a very readable and informative set of observations on America in the mid-20th century and beyond."
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Maybe this spring or summer would be a good time to take your family, friends or just your self out on a road trip for your very own Travel's With Charley. Maybe swing by Montana. It's a pretty place, a big place and an interesting place, as described in the State of Montana Vacation, Adventure, Recreation and Travel Planning Guide
Happy trails to you...
