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Show Advertisement 7fa?e are a few highlights in the Rocky Mountain West. Send the coupon on the back cover for free materials on each state, including detailed highway maps. Tour the Big Sky Country Montana. Montana is high, wide and handsome, as you'll discover if you make a border-to-border tour. In a state rich in superlative scenery, one prime target should be Glacier Notional Park (1). Two-hundred sparkling lakes, fifty glistening glaciers, countless waterfalls, massive, forested peaks and flower-dotted meadows make this beauty spot a true vacation haven. Coing-to-the-Sun Highway winds across the million-acre million-acre park, links up with smooth, equally spectacular routes leading to fine fishing and boating at Whitefish and Flathead Lakes or famed Hungry Horse Reservoir Reser-voir all near Kalispell (2). A few score miles south, make Missoula (3) your headquarters as you explore the Bitterroot, Lolo and Deer Lodge country, where cool green forests and fine fishing streams lie just off the pavement. Select a campsite, stay awhile, then move on to the photogenic, modern mines of Anaconda and Butt (4) with the richest hill on earth, or journey to once wild-and-wooly Virginia City (5), second territorial capitol of a cherished era. Today's capitol is at Helena (6), equally rich in history, and almost atop the Continental Divide. Just north are Gates of the Mountains and Groat Falls (7) where Lewis and Clark paused in their historic journey. Down the wide Missouri, stop awhile at Fort Pock teter-voir teter-voir (I), formed by the nation's largest earthen dam; enjoy top-notch fishing, boating and water skiing on the fourth-largest reservoir in the world. Circle south and east to Glendive, and Makoshika State Park Badlands, and swing down to Ekalaka with its display of prehistoric reptiles, and on to Milos City (9) for a visit to the famed Range Riders Museum. Then spend an hour or two or a day at Cwstor BarHefteW National Monumont (10) where cavalrymen and Indians wrote a heroic chapter in western history. From modern, bustling Billings (11) take the Bear Tooth Highway to Yellowstone National Park and its thermal wonders, or swing up to Livingston, Boiomon and Lewis and Clark Cavorn Stato Park (12) before entering the oldest of national parks by way of Gordinor or Wost Yellowstone (13). Wherever you roam in Montana,' you'll find superlative scenery, a hearty welcome, good roads and a fine choice of accommodations. Explore Montana - Big Sky Country! Striking toadstool formations in Montana's badlands, Makoshika State Park. Sightseers and photographers find the scenery here especially intriguing when the sun is low in early morning and late afternoon. iPi yty vt 1 fr:;:; i It's Contonniol timo in the Big Sky country, Montana, which is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its establishment estab-lishment as a territory. It's the perfect setting for a vacation in the outdoors. Everywhere you roam, by auto or bus. by train or plane, on horseback or on foot, you'll find secluded forest lands or well developed resprts. famous national parks and monuments, quiet, uncrowded state park campgrounds. Of course, a visit to spectacularly scenic Glacier National Park is a "must" Park lakes and streams afford prime fishing, there are fine hotels and modest cabins, campgrounds, boat excursions, wilderness rides, nature trails, campfire talks, glacier climbs all suited for family vacationing. Yollowstono National Park, reached by three Montana routes including the Bear Tooth Highway, offers scenery as spectacular as Glacier, plus those famed geysers, thermal wonders and thundering waterfalls. Just up the road from Yellowstone all Montana awaits you. Custer Battlefield and Big Hole Battlefield National Monuments, the Bear's Paw Battlefield, the reservations of the Blackfeet, Crow, Sioux and other major tribes serve to bring the history of the first Americans home to every thoughtful visitor. The Charles Russell Gallery and Studio at Great Falls, the State Historical Museum at Helena, the Range Riders Museum at Miles City. Museum of the Plains Indian at Browning and the National Bison range at Moiese recall the era of the cowpuncher, the railroad-builders and vanishing buffalo herds. Modern mining conies to life as you tour mines at Butte and smelters at Anaconda and Great Falls while a bygone era is recalled through the Last Chancer Tour at Helena, visits to Virginia City and Nevada City, or almost one hundred ghost towns. Boat trips through the Gates of the Mountain Gorge on the Missouri near Helena remind you of the wilderness journey of Lewis and Clark. A visit to the Forest Service Smoke Jumpers' Center at Missoula spotlights the problems of protecting forested mountain country in which you can still observe moose and deer, antelope, elk, bighorn sheep.bear and even the majestic Rocky Mountain goat. Fleet-footed Antelope roam the high plateau country of central and eastern Montana, and the upland game birds are plentiful. From Makoshika State Park in the badlands of the east to Whitefish Lake in the west, Montana is dotted V.:',-, "--i. 4 v Yj World famed Coing-to-the-Sun Highway in Montana's Glacier National Park is one of the scenic wonders of the world. Fifty miles long, it winds through the most rugged section of the Montana Rockies and crosses the Continental Divide. with state parks, all worth a visit. Lewis and Clark Cavern State Park is a wonderland of underground stalactites and stalagmites. Medicine Rocks shows its striking, windcarved formations above ground. For the outdoor vacationer Montana has camping and fishing galore: Yellow Bay State Park and West Shore State Park on Flathead Lake, with a beach and water skiing facilities; Bitterroot Lake State Park near Kalispell, Canyon Ferry near Helena, James Kipp Park on the Missouri near Lewiston. The very names of Montana's streams and lakes will make the knowing angler smile with anticipation. Wet a line in the Big Hole, the Big Blackfoot, the Gallatin, the Jefferson, Ruby, Missouri, Musselshell, Sun or Yellowstone and you're almost certain to take a limit of cutthroat, rainbow, brook or brown trout; the Flathead offers Kokanee salmon and Dolly Varden as well as trout; salmon. are also found in northwest lakes. And as sportsmen know, the Madison River, with nearby Hebgen, Quake and Meadow lakes, rates among the finest trout waters in the nation. Fishing, camping, rock-hunting, picture-taking, golfing, boating, trail-riding come try them all Motels, dude ranches, hotels, resorts are plentiful, people are friendly in Montana, the Big Sky country. SSVIfW III II V 4 III II Illilf Ilf mi U,j,.JI JftSWUa'S INDIANS BIG HORN SHEEP ALDER GIHCH GLACIER NATIONAL PARA |