Bill Croke

Newly inaugurated Democrat Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer had a meeting with Republican legislative leaders in Helena recently, ostensibly to discuss…

Shoot, Minnie, Shoot! by Happy Jack Feder A Big Sky Stories Book 164 Pages, Paperback, $14.95 (shootminnieshoot@yahoo.com) In 1887, the…

CODY, Wy. — Montana Shakespeare in the Parks might be the most traveled theater troupe in the world. Every summer…

CODY, Wy. — The blue mountains are mottled with cloud shadows. Cottonwoods stir in the breeze, and that sizzling sound…

CODY, Wy. — Michael Martin Murphey and his Rio Grande Band made their annual stopover in Cody recently, performing at…

Residents of and travelers in the American West know that there is no shortage of places named after the mountain…

CODY, Wy. — I turned 50 recently and found that sobering fact a grand excuse for a visit to the…

In a more genteel time author photographs were found on the back of a book’s dust jacket, or a smaller…

After an absence of six years I recently returned to my hometown of Warwick, New York, for a wedding. A…

I recently returned from a writers conference in Bozeman, Montana, a lively high tech outpost of the upscale New West….