BURCHINAL — They say Herb Mestad was an old-fashioned farmer who could fix anything. He passed the farming-and-fixing genes down to his son, Lynn, who in turn passed them to his daughter, Kim. Which ...

DEER LODGE — The iconic beaverslide hay stacker was invented in 1908 in Montana's Big Hole Valley, not far from Missoula. Named after Beaverhead County in which the valley sits, they're so effective ...

Editor’s note: This tour of small businesses across the country highlights the imagination, diversity, and resilience of American enterprise. Karl Matlack remembers that first summer after high school ...

The Little Blackfoot Valley is filled with lush hay fields. You already may have noticed the rounded haystacks and commented on the strange lodgepole structures standing in many of the fields. This ...

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