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A Montana Goodbye for Ivan Doig

For many people, Ivan Doig is a way into Montana. I remember Sarah Calhoun, the founder of Red Ants Pants in White Sulphur Springs, telling me how she chose her new home entirely on the strength of Doig’s account of it in This House of Sky. That is a common story. People read Ivan Doig and think they might oughta give Montana a try.

Doig is also a way into history. He invites us into a mythical Montana – maybe it really existed, maybe it didn’t, but we want it to have existed, because it says something good about who we are that the rough beauty of those lives is our communal history. It makes us believe, as Doig told us, that "Life is wide. There’s room enough to take a new run at it."

Carrie La Seur

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