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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Caption: RANDY RIEMAN, DILLON, MONTANA, Credit: CLAY SCOTT
This week on Mountain West Voices: A profile of Randy Rieman of Beaverhead County, Montana, who is a cowboy-poet and a gifted horse trainer. He ha...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 28, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Adin Kloetzel on his Horse: Ovando, Montana, Credit: Clay Scott
This week on Mountain West Voices: A conversation with a 14-year-old Montana boy about the advantages of a rural education. (His entire school had...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 20, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Game Warden Kqyn Kuka, Credit: Clay Scott
This week on Mountain West Voices: A young single mother from Montana becomes a game warden, and discovers a talent for busting poachers...and ster...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, WRST-FM Oshkosh, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Dr. Bob Connell Watches a Polo Match, Credit: Kenton Rowe
This week on Mountain West Voices: A conversation with Dr. Bob Connell, who for the last six decades has been at the center of the surprising cul...

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


  • Added: Sep 07, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 3
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This week on Mountain West Voices: a profile of 92-year-old Montana rancher-turned-artist Bill Ohrmann.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 31, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Senator Jon Tester Blowing a Few Notes, Credit: Clay Scott
This week on Mountain West Voices: we visit U.S. Senator Jon Tester on his organic grain farm in Montana.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 23, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Muhammed Jabbes, Credit: Clay Scott
The odyssey of a Tunisian farm kid who plays professional soccer, then comes to the U.S., learns English and gets a PH. D. in molecular genetics. ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Sister Teresa Jackson, St. Gertrude's Monastery, Cottonwood, ID, Credit: Clay Scott
Teresa Jackson was a 40-year-old attorney with a good job and a good life...but she wanted something more. "I figured if I was going to have a mid...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 10, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
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A retired history professor from Montana reflects on a childhood during the Depression, and on the nature of poverty...and happiness.

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


  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Roidany Aguila, Credit: Clay Scott
A Cuban boy's dream of playing baseball takes him from a Havana neighborhood so poor that no one owned a glove, bat or ball, to Miami, and then to ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Astronaut Loren Acton, Credit: Clay Scott
Montana's first and only astronaut reflects on a trajectory that took him from a childhood as a day-dreaming ranch kid who rode a pony to a one-roo...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 20, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Janet Zieg , Credit: Clay Scott
This week on Mountain West Voices: a portrait of a woman on a remote Montana ranch who, in addition to raising children, cooking, haying, branding ...

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


  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 4
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This week on Mountain West Voices: a 26-year-old New England woman between seasonal outdoor jobs settles in White Sulphur Springs, Montana, and beg...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 29, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Duran Caferro, Junior and Senior, Credit: Kenton Rowe
This week on Mountain West Voices: a volunteer boxing coach in Helena, Montana, helps disadvantaged kids find discipline and meaning through study ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 21, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on Mountain West Voices: Melvyn Brown grew up in the Lake District of northern England, on a place his family had farmed for generations....

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


  • Added: Jun 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: M J WILLIAMS, Credit: Eliza Wiley
This week on Mountain West Voices: Montana jazz icon M J Williams was singing in clubs in the early 1960's. 50 years later, her gorgeous voice and...

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


  • Added: Jun 08, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 4
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This week on Mountain West Voices: a visit with two women who grew up on remote, central Montana farms in the 1920's.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 01, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on Mountain West Voices: A visit to a remote Montana ghost town with a hands-on historian and raconteur. John Phillips dropped out of a g...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 20, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Pastor Eli Hofer, North Harlem, Montana, Credit: Clay Scott
This week on Mountain West Voices: A rare interview with a Hutterite pastor from a small colony in north central Montana. He talks about nearly 50...

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


  • Added: May 13, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Jim, Vince and Jamie Fox , Credit: Kenton Rowe
This week on Mountain West Voices: a portrait of a Montana family carrying on the rich tradition of Métis dance music.

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


  • Added: May 07, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 3