Articles written by Ruth Little With Rick & Susie Graetz

Ruth Little with Rick and Susie Graetz, U of M Office of Research and Creative Scholars|Updated Feb 23, 2021

Sixty miles east of Missoula on Interstate 90, at milepost 166, a highway marker shows an exit for Gold Creek. In the absence of signs designating this as a significant spot in Montana's chronicles, motorists zip by at 80mph without a thought of stopping. A southerly glance shows the peaceful ranch lands of the Clark Fork River Valley gradually ascending upward toward the Flint Creek Range's peaks. And just a bit east of the road into this small community of about 200 people,...