Recent Posts – Scott McMillion's articles and broadcasts:
“Elvis Has Left the Building”
By Scott McMillion
Bugle Magazine
November/December 2009
The biggest, surliest and most charismatically violent bull to ever gore an Aerostar, Number Six was the Elvis of elk, but he wasn’t singing “Love Me Tender.”
“Land Snorkeling with Clyde Aspevig”
By Scott McMillion
Montana Quarterly
Fall, 2009
Go outside. Walk Slowly. Pay attention. Listen. Smell the air. Taste it. Look at the soil and see how it responds to your step. Notice which grasses shine brightest in the morning dew. Compare birds, the differences in wing and shape and flight pattern. Maybe kick over a rock, see [...]
“A Dose of Politics”
By Scott McMillion
Montana Quarterly
Fall, 2009
After a decades-long political career, Montana’s powerful Senator Max Baucus has the eyes of the nation on him, awaiting a health care bill that will make everyone feel better. Or worse.
“Getting Another Shot”
By Scott McMillion
Montana Outdoors
September/October 2009
Photography by Erik Petersen
Brandon Renkin isn’t very big. Though he’s 15 years old, he weighs just 38 pounds. But it’s almost all heart. The rest of it is brain and spunk, wrapped in a layer of patience. These are things that make a hunter.
“The Wrong Man”
By Scott McMillion
Montana Quarterly
Summer, 2009
Photography by Thomas Lee.
A sloppy defense and shoddy science cost Jimmy Ray Bromgard 15 years of his life after he was put in prison for a terrible crime he didn’t commit.
“Evolution of a Paleontologist”
By Scott McMillion
Montana Quarterly
Summer 2009
Photography by Thomas Lee.
Labeled everything from “lazy and dumb” to “genius,” Jack Horner uses his unique mind to push the envelope with his latest idea: hatching a chickenosaur.
“Hard Times in the Last Best Place”
By Scott McMillion
Montana Quarterly
Spring 2009
Photography by Thomas Lee.
Twenty years ago, Bill Kittredge and Annick Smith completed their remarkable collection of Montana literature, a book they called The Last Best Place. And that title sure did sing to us, even if the tune was a little sad. It told us that we Montanans had something the [...]
“Swimming with Giants”
By Scott McMillion
Western Art & Architecture
Winter/Spring 09
Every afternoon for 10 days, John Banovich went to the banks of Botswana’s Khwai River, where families of elephants gathered to eat and drink and bathe. With 25 trips to Africa under his belt, he’d seen a lot of elephants, but he wanted to see more, to learn [...]
“Under the Red Hat”
By Scott McMillion
Montana Quarterly
Spring, 2009
Photography by Thomas Lee
Montana State University researcher Gary Strobel’s newest discovery, “myco-diesel,” just might change the world.
“A Friendly Harvest”
By Scott McMillion
Montana Quarterly
Winter, 2008
Out on the prairie between Malta and Saco, halfway between the Missouri River and the Canadian border, out where the hot water bubbles from the ground, a man and his preacher bent over a horseshoe pit and had a discussion.
The preacher maintained his shoe had fallen close enough to the pin [...]
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Scott McMillion has been an award-winning journalist and author for more than 20 years. He is the author of "Mark of the Grizzly," now in a new revised and updated edition, and has been senior editor of the critically acclaimed Montana Quarterly for the past six years.
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