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By: Meghan Saar 03/01/2008
A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
The author moved back to his hometown after his first novel about Montana was a big hit, The Big Sky, published in 1947. The Old Trail Museum in Choteau houses his typewriter, family photographs and a scrapbook detailing his journalism career in Lexington, Kentucky. The Big Sky state has not forgotten the man who gave it its nickname.
Walking the Read
Hike Ear Mountain, part of the Montana Tetons, which early settlers called Elephant Ear Butte. While here, reread the last few paragraphs of The Big Sky, in which Mountain Man Boone Caudill recalls this landmark.
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