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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This week on Mountain West Voices: Esther Rivera shares stories from her childhood in the small but tightly knit Mexican community of Billings, Mon...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Larry Kuntz, Spokane, Washington, Credit: Clay Scott
In 1937, the parents of 5-year-old Larry Kuntz were shot to death in an argument over wheat. Larry was beaten and left for dead. After years of s...

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


  • Added: Mar 12, 2013
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 4
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In 1937, Cassandra Norman's great-grandfather murdered the parents of 5-year-old Larry Kuntz, pistol-whipped the boy and left him for dead. Norman...

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


  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Jim Fox, Harlem, Montana, Credit: Kenton Rowe
This week on Mountain West Voices: excerpts from past stories in our series. You will hear the voices of some of the remarkable individuals we've ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Shearers on Break, Lavina, Montana, Credit: Clay Scott
This week on Mountain West Voices: A look at the life of the international community of workers who follow the sheep shearing seasons around the wo...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 05:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: John Lehfeldt, Lavina, Montana, Credit: Clay Scott
This week on Mountain West Voices: A visit to a remote ranch in central Montana, where five generations of the Lehfeldt family have raised sheep.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Chelsia Rice, Helena, Montana, Credit: Clay Scott
This week on Mountain West Voices: A conversation with Chelsia Rice, a freelance writer who was unlucky enough to be diagnosed with a rare cancer w...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: May 01, 2013
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Sapphire Carter, Credit: Clay Scott
Sapphire Carter's mother told her she would have to learn to 'walk in two worlds.' That was before the Chippewa-Cree girl from the Rocky Boy's Ind...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Ruth Walter, Judith Gap, Montana, Credit: Clay Scott
This week on Mountain West Voices: When Ruth Walter and her husband, both of them with 8th grade educations, decided to take their three children a...

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


  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Exchange Students, Judith Gap, MT, Credit: Clay Scott
Four exchange students - from China, Thailand, Korea and Mexico - spend a year in tiny Judith Gap, Montana. All four students are from cities of s...

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


  • Added: May 27, 2013
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Fred Reed, Missoula, Montana, Credit: Clay Scott
This Week on Mountain West Voices: A Retired Sociology Professor Talks About the Difficulties of a Mixed-Race Upbringing in Mostly White Montana.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 11, 2013
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Lacing Up Tap Shoes, Credit: Clay Scott
This week on Mountain West Voices: A visit to the tap dance studio of Justin Trafton in Helena, Montana.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2013
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Greg Morley, Swan Lake, Montana, Credit: Clay Scott
This week on Mountain West Voices: Master canoe builder Greg Morley talks about his life-long love of exploring the wilderness in his own hand-craf...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 24, 2013
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Leo J. in Montana, Credit: Clay Scott
This week on Mountain West Voices: Itinerant, bike-riding singer-songwriter and storyteller Joel Shupack (aka Leo J.) passes through Montana on his...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 03, 2013
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Linda Oakes, Nekaneet Saskatchewan, Credit: Clay Scott
This week on Mountain West Voices: A visit to the Nekaneet Reserve in southwest Saskatchewan. Elder Linda Oakes talks about racism, about the impo...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 17, 2013
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Alvin Francis and Clarence Oakes, Saskatchewan, Credit: Clay Scott
This week on Mountain West Voices: The second in a series of stories from the Nekaneet Reserve in the Cypress Hills of the Canadian province of Sas...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2013
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 2
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After spending many years as aid workers in Haiti, a Canadian couple returns home, and discovers that they can continue their humanitarian mission ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 31, 2013
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Marc Jarvey, Rocky Boy Reservation, Montana, Credit: Clay Scott
This week on Mountain West Voices: As Marc Jarvey prepares to leave the Rocky Boy's Reservation for his freshman year at Montana State University B...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on Mountain West Voices: Part 1 of a series telling the story of Maria Zimina - later Marie Johnson of Polson, Montana - who was caught u...

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


  • Added: Sep 04, 2013
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Susan Miles, Helena, MT, Credit: Clay Scott
After a lifetime of advocating for wilderness protection and mental health issues, Montana resident Susan Miles has become an advocate for research...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 11, 2013
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2