So these are the Sweet Grass Hills-about 100 miles east of the northern Rockies. Volcanic Buttes with Cedar and Spuce up near their summits, they make up three bumps in the uniformity of the high plains. Elk, deer, and moose are found here...as well as the occasional antelope-somehow very lost from a southern herd.

My grandmother's memories of this country weren't kind. She much preferred the Loskot's second homestead near Sundance Montana. It still stands, although it's been modified a few times since my great grandfather originally built it. Although that second homestead was on the Blackfeet Reservation, the land seemed far more fertile, the air shimmering against the contrast of the Rockies.

Here, well it has a beauty as well-especially as I remember the stories Billie told me of her horse Babe, going up into the sweetgrass to gather berries, and that after the blizzard cleared, the brightness of so much white was blinding.