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In a great new book by Montana writer Brian D'Ambrosio, some of the state's great artists, musicians, and writers get the credit they deserve. Here are a list of the locals profiled: John Well-Off-Man : Multimedia Artist;
David Boone: Obsessive Art of Songwriting Mike Bader: Blues Scholar Immersed in Subject
Rich Adams: Graphite Pencil Artist
Lee Kierig : The Merry Man and His Mighty Machines Rudy Autio: Master Ceramicist
George Gulli: Totemic Art
Richard Paup: Street Photographer
Skip Horner: Adventure Guide
Josh Smith: Knife Maker
George Ybarra: Alloy Artist
Greg Pape : Montana Poet Laureate
Steve Wilson, Corvallis, Montana: Art as Life
Jimmy "The Hat Man" Harrison
Jim Agnew
Guy Bingham Carl Haywood: Tracking David Thompson
Bill Whitfield : Ghost Towns and Gold Camps
Lemuel Oehrtman: Blacksmith
Mike Gouse: Gun Engraver
Larry Townsend: The Cowboy Way
Aaron Crowder: Hope in Haiti
Carl Bock: Dances with Wolves
Andrew Maisel: Mission Mountain Joinery
Sean Kochel: Kochel Apiaries
John Walker Guitars
Ram Murphy: Seizing the Subcontinent
Talk about a list of stories. As described in the book, "t he presence of a continuous stream of artistic, literary, and scientific individualists and transplants makes Western Montana a remarkably self-sufficient place from a cultural point of view. That very same self-suitability exists in the peerless personality of the state itself and of its people. The visitor who has been there once tends to return again and again. Newcomers get so infatuated with its alluring charm that they usually remain there for life."
So it seems that this book has captured that charm. It's a large book loaded with hundreds a pictures and images of great art and people. The author shows that lif e in Western Montana is a wide variety of actions and intentions, a a lifestyle of everything from pottery, ranching, gun engraving, photography, film making and painting, to writing, drawing, hat making, saddle making, furniture construction, and sculpting a certifiable gamut of crafts, callings, and disciplines.
In one year of working as a journalist, from June 2007 to June 2008, Brian D'Ambrosio met and spent time with but a few of the many eclectic personalities that make this part of Big Sky Country so unique. During this period, he was first struck with the idea of gathering such stories a diverse potpourri of subject matters and materials and placing some of the most interesting ones all in the very same book.
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