steinbeck's travels with charley. he goes on and on about how much she loved montana. trash all over the united states, but montana is the love song for an. and i think the combination of a wide-open spaces but also the fact that we've had the amenity a you would want for a full and happy life. so i think that attract people. it is easy to work here, i think. i mean, it is easy to sort of slipped into montana and have it be what drives you artistically. if they are writing about montana, you know, a place that pervades everything, western identity, you know, their relationship with the land, relationship with the history, the culture. that is of bake to mount a backdrop for any montana said novel or work of nonfiction. there is an endless supply of books about little bighorn. it is funny to think that this event that was a reasonably short in duration and happened along time ago. you would think everything had been unearthed, but it does not bend. there is always new ground to plow. montana is sort of this -- its