![]() ![]() It’s a cultural construction as much as a natural one there’s a specific vista that encapsulates what Montana means to Americans. ![]() ![]() Rivers in Montana are supposed to be curvaceous, clear, and stocked with rainbow trout. When someone moves to a new country and progresses through the stages of citizenship, we say that they are “naturalized.” When we “naturalize” nature, we also demand that it live by our rules. Actually, its architects aren’t aiming so high-they’re just trying to make it look like Earth. The difference is that the Clark Fork isn’t so naturally good-looking it’s been engineered to look like heaven. You can canoe down it, following the current in sweeping curves, watching for beavers and trout. It’s what birds wake up singing about.Ībout an hour west, there’s another river called the Clark Fork. They filmed those shots on the Gallatin, a photogenic river that springs up in Yellowstone Park and cascades down through blue mountains and green valleys to join the Missouri. If you saw A River Runs Through It (you did, and you cried-don’t deny it), you saw Brad Pitt standing waist-deep in the glorious canyon of a Montana river, casting a fly-fishing rod out over what looks like heaven. ![]()
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