Summertime on one of Eastern Montana’s most historic ranches

Bill’s family has homesteaded in the Prickly Pear Valley since around 1864. In the more than 150 years since their claim, the ranch has passed through four generations and grown to nearly 3,000 acres, most of which has seen little change since. 

I showed up on Bill’s historic ranch one stormy afternoon last July in the hopes of seeing some bison…