Summer 2025

Mountain Outlaw

Immersive storytelling from the wildest corners of Montana. Each issue brings you closer to the landscapes, adventures, and lives that define this remarkable region.

Featured Outlaw

In a dark forest of characters, Michael Keaton finds levity at home in Montana. BY TOBY THOMPSON Cowboys and Indians encircle Michael Keaton. Not real cowpokes, Native people or even…

Inside This Edition

Molly Tuttle on her love for music, wild places and the human connection. BY BELLA BUTLER If hope is the…
BY TAYLOR OWENS Along the banks of Montana’s upper Madison River, just above Varney Bridge, lies a lodge where the…
A photographer and hotshot turns his lens to the flames. PHOTOS BY KYLE MILLER WORDS BY BELLA BUTLER Home is…
Returning indigenous roots to Yellowstone. BY CHRIS LA TRAY It is a sweaty evening in mid-August of 2022 on the…
Sunshine gets all the fanfare, but I live for foggy mornings on the river, mist rising in clouds from its…
A longtime tent camper tries sleeping on wheels. BY ELISABETHER KWAK-HEFFERAN To tell the truth, I didn’t want to like…
A trout fisherman’s foray in Caribbean flats. BY JOE CUSICK W hen we arrived at our cheap hotel in San…
BY TAYLOR OWENS I love to work. I love to create. I have to create,” said Ren Ferguson, renowned luthier…
Rediscovering the Shortline Route. BY JAMES MCKEW Editor's Note: The following story is a fictionalized telling of the Washburn-Doane Expedition…