As a longtime subscriber and sometime contributor to High Country News, I always look forward to your feature reporting – especially when the reporter is Ray Ring. But I have seldom been not only so disappointed by an article’s obvious slant, but also so absolutely astonished by the lack of breadth in Ring’s information-gathering (it […]
Mary Zeiss Stange
Posted inFebruary 6, 2006: The Killing Fields
Living with the ghosts of the Indian Wars
I live in enemy territory. The problem is, I am the enemy. Montana’s Department of Commerce calls it “Custer Country”: the southeastern region of the state, a million or so acres of sage-dotted grassland, juniper draws and hillside stands of ponderosa pine, stretching east from Billings to the Dakota border. My husband and I raise […]
Posted inDecember 6, 1999: Peggy Godfrey's long, strange trip
Coming home to the country
EKALAKA, Mont. – We called it the Mother Tree: a mature ponderosa pine on the crest of a small hill, with an acre or so of seedlings and saplings draping the hill’s leeward side, a mini-forest in the making that was the product of scores of pinecones shed by that lone adult. We drove past […]