Bill Glasscock, Jeff Holter’s chief collaborator at the Holter Research Foundation, tests a Holter Heart Monitor on the streets of Helena, no date. Photographer unknown. Collection of Joan Treacy Holter.
Patricia Forsberg, Tonight, with No One to Wait For, 1999, gouache, ink and collage on paper, 11 x 4 inches. © 1999 Patricia Forsberg. Photograph by Guy duVon.
Richard S. Buswell, Smelter Slag, silver gelatin print. © Richard S. Buswell.
Rudy Autio, Cannon Beach, 1983, acrylic on paper, 34 x 34 inches. Collection of the Holter Museum of Art. Gift of Miriam Sample. Photograph by Kurt Keller.
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Table of Contents
This Issue’s Original Work
Fiction
Excerpt from In the Scatter of the Moonlight, a novel by Scott Hibbard
“Tu B’Shvat: for the Drowned and the Saved,” a story by Melanie Rae Thon
“In the Grips,” a story by Chris Nicholson
Excerpt from The Watershed Years, a novel by Russell Rowland
“Another Quentin Houlihan,” a story by Matt Pavelich
Poems
“Sunlight on Houses,” a poem by Michele Corriel
“Nocturne,” a poem by Phil Cohea
Five poems by Paul S. Piper
Six poems by Greg Keeler
Nonfiction
“Island Nouveau,” a memoir by O. Alan Weltzien
Visual Arts
Drawings, by Wes Mills (plus an interview with the artist by Jennifer A. Gately)
From the Archives
Third installment: “Cabin O’Wildwinds: The Story of An Adventure in ‘Homesteading,’” by Ada Melville Shaw; originally published in The Farmer’s Wife, 1931
Essays
Education
“‘The People’ of Montana: In Exegesis of Indian Education for All,” by Nicholas CP Vrooman
Literature
“Pioneers and Indians: Romanticism, Revisionism, and Post-Revisionism in the Fiction of the American West,” by Karen Fisher
“When Cowboys Became Capitalists and the West Became New,” by John Clayton
“Bert Hansen: Montanan,” by Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs
“‘I learn by going where I have to go’: Initiatory Turnings in Poetry, Philosophy, and Religion,” by Robert Baker
Rural Philanthropy
“‘Stuck Situations’ in the Philanthropic Divide: The Need for Nonprofit Capacity,” by Michael Schechtman
Science & Health
“Probing the Unknown,” an excerpt from the biographical essay, “Norman Jefferis ‘Jeff’ Holter: A Serendipitous Life,” by Rick Newby
Visual Arts
“The Hegemonic Eye: Can the Hand Survive?” by Chris Staley
“Rudy Autio: Coming Home to the Figure,” by Rick Newby
Rudy Autio, a short film by Chris Autio (Large 32 mb file, Quicktime required for viewing)
“Traces—Montana Frontiers Revisited,” photographs by Richard Buswell; essay by Julian Cox
Travels & Translations
“Dinner
at Olympia’s,” an East African memoir by Gilles Stockton
“Long Lines of Dancing Letters: The Japanese Drawings of Patricia Forsberg,” by Rick Newby
Reviews
Gallatin Canyon: Stories, by Thomas McGuane, reviewed by Ken Egan
The Taos Truth Game, by Earl Ganz, reviewed by Rebecca Stanfel
The Watershed Years, by Russell Rowland, reviewed by Jodi Schmitz
Montana Women Writers: A Geography of the Heart, edited by Caroline Patterson, reviewed by Hilary Hoffman
Poems Across the Big Sky: An Anthology of Montana Poets, edited by Lowell Jaeger, reviewed by O. Alan Weltzien
Dancing to the Edge, Tappan/Roberti/Williams Trio, reviewed by Keith Raether
In Memoriam
Rudy Autio, by Richard Notkin, Stephen Glueckert, & Beth Lo
Liz Claiborne, by Brian Kahn
Senator Pat Regan, by Teresa Cohea and Mignon Waterman
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Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall - 2008