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“A brief wave of Montana envy unworthy of a proud Dakotan”

December 5, 2011 | 1 Comment

Another “holy cow, Montana is amazing!” essay, this time from North Dakota! An excerpt:

The strange thing is that, freshly returned from a hectic professional journey, my main memories are not of Lewis and Clark, but of the magic of Montana. I love North Dakota with all of my heart and soul, and I try to be one of its principal cheerleaders, but the minute I clear Wibaux in the westbound lane I find myself muttering, “If there were only one state, it would have to be Montana.” I hate it that they look down on us (we got yet another lifetime dose), but no wonder they look down on us!

The whole of Montana just takes your breath away, over and over again, and in the end you cannot believe that one state can be allowed to contain so much that is unbelievably beautiful.

The author of the essay is Clay Jenkinson, who is the Theodore Roosevelt Center scholar at Dickinson State University, as well as Distinguished Scholar of the Humanities at Bismarck State College and director of the Dakota Institute.


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  1. Jim Larson on December 8, 2011 3:49 pm

    I’ve driven I-90 between Butte and Billings hundreds of times, and I have never tired of the view.

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