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"Wild Montana Skies" was the single from this album; members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. [2] It contains the following dedication from John Denver: "This album is dedicated with great love and respect to the memory of my father, Lt. Col. (Ret.) H.J. "Dutch" Deutschendorf."
Flathead Lake (Salish: člq̓etkʷ, Kutenai: yawuʔnik̓ ʔa·kuq̓nuk) [3] is a large natural lake in northwest Montana, United States.. The lake is a remnant of the ancient, massive glacial dammed lake, Lake Missoula, of the era of the last interglacial. [4]
"I Wanna Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" is a country and western song written in 1934 and first recorded in 1935 by Rubye Blevins, who performed as Patsy Montana. It was the first country song by a female artist to sell more than one million copies.
There are at least 115 named Islands in Montana. These islands occur in rivers, lakes and reservoirs. ... Dream Island, Lake County, Montana ...
In 2013, "Wild Montana Skies" won a poll as the "best song about Montana" run by the Great Falls Tribune. [ 2 ] Reception was not entirely positive; the New York Daily News rated the song as the second-worst song with the word "wild" in the title, second only to " Wildfire " by Michael Martin Murphey .
In 2008, Montana was named the 27th Greatest Movie Character by Empire magazine. [1] The character is partly based on Tony Camonte, the protagonist of the 1932 film ; Camonte was, in turn, an adaptation of Tony Guarino from the 1929 novel , which in turn was a loose fictionalization of real-life Italian-American gangster Al Capone , who was ...
Frontier House is a historical reality television series that originally aired on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States from April 29 to May 3, 2002. The series followed three family groups that agreed to live as homesteaders did in Montana Territory on the American frontier in 1883.
The nearby city of Anaconda was the dream child of industrialist Marcus Daly (1841–1900), whose Anaconda Copper Mining Company (ACM) by 1900 employed three-quarters of Montana's wage earners; it dominated the state's politics and press into the 1950s. The smelters in Anaconda process the copper mined in Butte.