Ivan Doig

Mm-hmm.

So when I was in Bozeman in 2004, I read a wonderful book by the author Ivan Doig.

It's his memoir of growing up in White Sulphur Springs called This House of Sky.

Everything he described about this place seemed so authentic and genuine Montana, and the kind of place that I wanted to live.

Okay, last question of the day, favorite things.

Do you have a favorite book or a podcast? Maybe it's a product, a life hack, something that has changed your life and you just think more people should know about it.

I would say probably that Ivan Doig, Doig book that I mentioned, This House of Sky, which is just such a tremendous-- It's beautifully, beautifully written about, about rural Montana and describes a place so accurately, and also was the building block to really start increasing some pride in this place here.

Oh.

They aren't outside the market, they are the scarred survivors of it.

And the reality of surviving in the aftermath of that kind of economic pressure is beautifully detailed in Ivan Doig's memoir, This House of Sky.

Doig grew up on a sheep ranch in Montana in the 1940s and '50s.

This isn't the sweeping epic of a cattle baron flying in a helicopter.

Yeah.

The, "The Alchemist" and Ivan Doig's "This House of Sky" would be my two.

One person, alive or dead, who would you invite to dinner with you?

Oh, Dolly.

Yep, the ski season ended, and then the log peeling was just part-time, and then the, the factory actually where I was sewing backpacks, they They had to lay some folks off.

So, um, [clears throat] but it was getting to the point where I was, uh, I, I was-- Bozeman was a great place to live, but I wanted to be in a small ag town, so I wanted to, um, look elsewhere to live.

And I had read Ivan Doig's book, "This House of Sky," wonderful, uh, wonderful memoir, and he's one of the best writers of the American West.

And he had grown up in this little ranching town called White Sulphur Springs.