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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The Irish band Solas comes to Butte, Montana, to perform songs from their new album - Shamrock City. The album tells the story of a relative of So...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 14, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Tom Roy Youth Farm, Missoula, MT
This week on Mountain West Voices: teenagers from the Tom Roy Youth Home in Missoula, Montana, have turned a weed-filled lot into a farm that produ...

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


  • Added: Mar 07, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Steve Loken, a Missoula, Montana builder known for energy-efficient, “regenerative construction,” talks about the small-farm upbringing that taught...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 29, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dave Armstrong and one of his Huskies, Credit: Kenton Rowe
This week on Mountain West Voices: Montana dog-musher extraordinaire Dave Armstrong has worked with sled dogs since the 1930's, when he helped trai...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Angella Ahn in Concert
This week on Mountain West Voices: A portrait of Bozeman, Montana resident Angella Ahn, violinist of the world-renowned Ahn Trio.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 07, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Viola Anglin, ca 1938, Leadore, Idaho
This week on Mountain West Voices: A profile of Viola Barrett Anglin, the owner of the general store in Tendoy, in Idaho's Lemhi Valley. For the l...

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


  • Added: Feb 01, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Joseph Baraz, Helena, MT, Credit: Kenton Rowe
This week on Mountain West Voices: a conversation with Hungarian sculptor and long-time Montana resident Joseph Baraz. He discusses his art; his r...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 25, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Drs. Anna and Ron Loge, Big Hole Mountains, Montana, Credit: Clay Scott
This week on Mountain West Voices: Two doctors in southwest Montana - a man and his daughter - talk about the challenges and rewards of rural medic...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 18, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Ralph Yeager on a Montana Marsh, Credit: Clay Scott
On a visit home during the last week of waterfowl season, a man and his father head for the marsh where they have spent thousands of hours; hiding ...

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


  • Added: Jan 11, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 4
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This week on Mountain West Voices: A profile of a young, out-of-work couple in Butte, Montana who open a micro-distillery in an old Uptown building...

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


  • Added: Jan 04, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Basil Pius, Miles City, Montana, Credit: Clay Scott
Basil Pius was a member of Iraq’s Assyrian minority who was flunking out of college...until a 1955 encounter with Agatha Christie at the family boo...

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


  • Added: Dec 23, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Hutterite Women, North Harlem Colony, Northern Montana, Credit: Clay Scott
This week on Mountain West Voices: a rare glimpse into the lives of unmarried Hutterite women, including the singing of 400-year-old, traditional C...

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


  • Added: Dec 16, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Jacob Hofer, North Harlem Colony, Montana, Credit: Clay Scott
Hutterites are a communal, pacifist, Anabaptist sect. So when Jacob Hofer left the North Harlem in northern Montana and joined the army, it was a ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 10, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Allen Secher, ca 1962
Rabbi Allen Secher of Whitefish, Montana, talks about his experience as a 'Freedom Rider' in Georgia and Florida during the civil rights movement o...

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


  • Added: Dec 01, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: PAUL ANDERSEN, BOZEMAN MONTANA, Credit: CLAY SCOTT
This week on Mountain West Voices: a visit to the high tech classroom of Montana's 2011 Teacher of the Year and self-styled 'tech junkie' - Bozeman...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 16, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Fred Davison, Highwood, Montana, Credit: Clay Scott
This week on Mountain West Voices: A profile of Fred Davison, a Montana farmer and rancher whose biggest influence is Leonardo da Vinci. Davison h...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 09, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Jack Price, Avon, Montana, Credit: Clay Scott
When Jack Price returned home from the Korean war in 1953, few people in his small western Montana community understood or seemed to care what he h...

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


  • Added: Nov 02, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: MARGARET CORCORAN AT HER RESTAURANT IN HELENA, MONTANA, Credit: KENTON ROWE
This week on Mountain West Voices: a conversation with scholar of Latin and Greek who returned to the culinary roots of her small-town Montana chil...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 26, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Darrel Kipp, Browning, Montana, Credit: Clay Scott
We travel to Browning, Montana, to visit with Blackfeet language revolutionary Darrell Kipp. He looks back on a career that took him from the Army...

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


  • Added: Oct 19, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Julia Davis Wheeler at Bears Paw Battlefield, Credit: Clay Scott
Nez Perce tribal members make the trek from Idaho to a remote part of Montana to commemorate the final battle between the U.S. Cavalry and the trib...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 04, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2