Featured in Explore Big Sky‘s 2019-20 Gift Guide!
A Million Acres: Montana Writers Reflect on Land and Open Space
Edited by Keir Graff
Photography by Alexis Bonogofsky
Montana’s stunning landscape shapes all who live there and all who visit.
In twenty powerful pieces of writing—essays, memoirs, short stories—the state’s finest contemporary writers explore the plains, rivers, and mountains of Big Sky Country. They show us how natural beauty and hardship are two sides of the same coin, and how sometimes the only way to cure heartache is to visit the great outdoors.
From a hardscrabble upbringing to the pain of losing the family land, from death on a river to the awe of landing a big fish, from backcountry encounters with grizzly bears to an out-of-stater’s happiness at making Montana her home, A Million Acres offers a wonderfully diverse range of experiences and perspectives.
Framing these words are twenty-eight breathtaking photographs that render these open spaces in gorgeous color.
Come to Montana: in words, in pictures, in person. And see what makes the Last Best Place worth saving.
Featuring essays and stories by: Rick Bass, Alexis Bonogofsky, Christine Carbo, Janet Skeslien Charles, Gwen Florio, James Grady, Keir Graff, Laulette LeDoux Hansen, Jamie Harrison, Eric Heidle, Sterling HolyWhiteMountain, Allen Morris Jones, Carrie La Seur, Maxim Loskutoff, Antonia Malchik, Maile Meloy, Caroline Patterson, Jim Robbins, Russell Rowland, and Joe Wilkins.
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Each sale supports the work of The Montana Land Reliance.
Learn more about A Million Acres!
“Million Acres literary anthology marks Montana conservation milestone” (Missoulian)
“Montana Land Reliance milestone marked in anthology” (Daily Inter Lake)
“New MLR book A Million Acres celebrates Montana land and writers” (Helena Independent Record)
“Reading the West” (Big Sky Journal)
“Whitefish authors part of book featuring state’s wild spaces” (Whitefish Pilot)
“A Million Acres” (Montana Public Radio)
Praise for A Million Acres!
“Remarkable . . . replete with perfect moments, there for the grasping.”
—Montana Quarterly
“A book to treasure.”
—Edible Bozeman