Writing Montana Author:Suzanne Hunger, Rick Newby Montana is reputed to have on of the most vital literary traditions in the United States. This wide-ranging collection of twenty-seven essays-by leading Montana fiction writers, poets, literature scholars, and historians-analyzes, argues with, and celebrates that unruly tradition. At the heart of Writing Montana is a group of ten brie... more »f essays on The Last Best Place, the landmark anthology that firmly established Montana literature in the national consciousness upon its publication in 1988. The rest of Writing Montana's pages are devoted to seventeen substantial essays by some of the state's finest writers. Angry, passionate, witty, the essays in Writing Montana shed new light on a literature that resonates far beyond Montana's borders. This book belongs in the library of anyone who cares about Montana and the West.« less