Mountain West Voices

Series produced by clay scott

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Mountain West Voices is an ongoing series that looks at the Rocky Mountain West - including Western Canada - through the medium of radio storytelling. Each piece in the series profiles an individual or community, introducing listeners to the compelling stories that are part of the human landscape of our region.

Mountain West Voices is an ongoing series that looks at the Rocky Mountain West - including Western Canada - through the medium of radio storytelling. Each piece in the series profiles an individual or community, introducing listeners to the compelling stories that are part of the human landscape of our region.


176 Pieces

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Mountain West Voices producer Clay Scott finds himself in the emergency room, and reflects on personal stories of health crises in the U.S. and abr...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 23, 2013
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on Mountain West Voices: A visit with Paul Taylor: Utinerant storyteller, teacher and didgeridoo player from Laramie, Wyoming, via Adelai...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 16, 2013
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Anne & Willie Langji, Helena, Montana, Credit: Clay Scott
This week on Mountain West Voices: A Cameroonian-American couple, while visiting relatives in Montana, talk about cultural identity and their evolv...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 09, 2013
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Margaret Kesckemeti - Self Portrait
Margaret Kesckemeti passed away last summer at 98 in a one-room log cabin without running water in Roundup, Montana, near the homestead shack where...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Caitlin Chiller, Simms, Montana, Credit: Clay Scott
This week on Mountain West Voices: a visit to a high school English class in Simms, Montana, where Caitlin Chilller talks about the challenges of o...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 24, 2012
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on Mountain West Voices: Missoula, Montana native David Thatcher remembers his role in the "Doolittle Raid" - a 1942 bombing raid on the ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on Mountain West Voices: 14-year-old Kaitlyn Galahan talks about her late father, and about the love of archery and the outdoors that he ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Bob Harsha, Columbus Montana, Credit: Clay Scott
Mountain West Voices producer Clay Scott gets a trim in the Columbus, Montana shop of Bob Harsha, a 93-year-old barber who has been cutting hair in...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2012
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Susan Sanford and Brian Brown on their Montana farm, Credit: Clay Scott
Susan Sanford's father pushed her to leave the family's isolated farm in north-central Montana so she could experience the world. After her father...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 3
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This week's edition of Mountain West Voices takes listeners from a game check station along the Continental Divide in Southwest Montana, to the Elk...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Pauline Olson, Augusta, Montana, Credit: Clay Scott
This week on Mountain West Voices: 80-year-old leather worker Pauline Olson of Augusta, Montana, talks about God, deer hunting, and a life of strug...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Hugo Tureck, Coffee Creek, Montana, Credit: Clay Scott
This week on Mountain West Voices: Hugo Tureck, a central Montana rancher and farmer (and former sociology professor), talks about his relationship...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Judy Tureck, Coffee Creek, Montana, Credit: Clay Scott
This week on Mountain West Voices: Central Montana rancher and farmer Judy Tureck talks about her connection to the land that surrounds her, and ab...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Saw Whet Owl, Credit: Clay Scott
This week on Mountain West Voices: A nocturnal adventure with Saw Whet owl researchers in Montana, and a visit Denver Holt of the Owl Research Inst...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 10, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Homesteaders, Southwest Montana, Credit: Beaverhead County History Museum
"A Fair Chance" is a special, half-hour edition of the weekly radio series Mountain West Voices that examines the remarkable legacy of homesteading...

Bought by WRPI, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 04, 2012
  • Length: 28:36
  • Purchases: 3
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This week on Mountain West Voices: A flight through the mountains of southwest Montana with back country pilot Jeanne MacPherson.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on Mountain West Voices we go to Dell, population 35, in southwest Montana, where a one-room schoolhouse-turned café has been the center ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 19, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on Mountain West Voices: a visit with the descendants of the Volgadeutsch (ethnic Germans from Russia) who homesteaded along the Musselsh...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 12, 2012
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on Mountain West Voices: 96-year-old Montanan Bert Somers recalls his life as an itinerant, 16-year-old boxer in the Northwest during the...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 31, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Blackie Nelson, Helena, MT , Credit: Clay Scott
This week on Mountain West Voices: Guitarist Blackie Nelson talks about life as a professional jazz musician in Montana in the 1940's.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2