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...Detroit hosted Super Bowl XVI, a memorable game that saw Montana??s 49ers edge out the Bengals, but XL is entirely different—and not just because of the teams. This time, it means a lot more for a city that’s been preparing for the fifth of February for over five years. This time, the Super Bowl is at the heart of the city’s revitalization plan...
Joyce T. Bowden gave up everything—cloistering herself for seven years in Montana??s mountains and forgoing her family and hometown—so that, by the age at which some are reaching the apex of their careers, she could be a rookie...
Hoping to find flames, she moved west to Montana??s Yellowstone National Park, where she dispersed law enforcement and medical expertise and fought a few fires on patrol. It was a good job, but it came at a cost. She virtually had to give up contact with the world, getting just one day a week to make calls and check mail in town. And every winter, she risked “furlough,” or being temporarily laid...
...something grossly different than a St. Albans one—characterized by reading books outside of the classroom and dabbling in local politics. Other Montanans who didn’t have the luxury of living in “the city” (the metropolis of Great Falls, Montana??s second-largest “city,” is about 50,000 people large) experienced even rougher hands-on education: taking time off of school to sit in a combine, a harvester machine as large as a monster truck...
Ziegler is hardly the first author whose fiction takes place in a distinctive homeland. But she readily admits that Montana??once booming with a strip-mine economy, now characterized mainly by casinos, bars and interminable cold—is not an immediately attractive scene...