WAPITI

I will be in ol’ Montana a week from tonight!  Excited, would be an underestimation. I’m going out with my Uncle, Wayne Tucker, for a couple weeks to hunt Elk and Mule Deer. Oh boy, oh boy, do I love the West. I can’t wait to get back out there in the wild open country that I love so much.

Here are a few Montana quotes that keep me healthy:

Oh, I'll never leave Montana, brother. –River Runs Through It

Dear Jesse, as the moon lingers a moment over the bitterroots, before its descent into the invisible, my mind is filled with song. I find I am humming softly; not to the music, but something else; some place else; a place remembered; a field of grass where no one seemed to have been; except a deer; and the memory is strengthened by the feeling of you, dancing in my awkward arms. –River Runs Through It

The world is full of bastards; the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana.  –River Runs Through It

But when I’m alone in the half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise. Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's greatest flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of those rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters. –River Runs Through It

There was something in the city that he said he couldn’t breathe
And there was something in the country that he said he couldn’t leave
Oh Montana, give this child a home
Give him the love of a good family and a woman of his own
Give him a fire in his heart, give him a light in his eyes
Give him the wild wind for a brother and the wild Montana skies

                -John Denver

God made Montana for the wild man, for the Piegan and the Sioux and Crow. –Ian Tyson

Ah' when I first saw Montana I knew I would love her. I'd ride her great ranges for the rest of my days. –Ian Tyson

My name is bob fudge, I died in Montana. –Ian Tyson