Bill Croke

On the Rocky Mountain Front in Montana the Great Plains meet the mountains without the buffer of foothills. It is…

Many tourists visiting the West treat the national parks and environs as if they were giant, open-air petting zoos. For…

I once pursued an unheralded career as a fictionist. I am the author of a bad untitled novel in manuscript,…

In the far northern reaches of Yellowstone National Park is the Lamar Valley, a small American Serengeti of grass, cottonwood,…

A ceremony at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello recently kicked off the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial celebration, with events scheduled along the…

A news item on the Fox website recently caught my eye. It was about a March 21st incident outside a…

I first went west at 21 in 1975, possessed of the crazy idea that I would strike it rich panning…

Ted Turner has been in the news lately. The legendary media titan resigned his seat on the board of AOL-Time-Warner,…

American academia has long found conservative ideas and their proponents to be anathema. Every speech or seminar appearance by a…

I’ve been walking on the prairie east of town lately (the roomy Big Horn Basin stretching off sixty miles to…