Montana Remains "High, Wide, and Handsome"

"Colorado is high, having more peaks within its borders than any other state. Wyoming is wide, with the breadth of the plains between the Bighorns and the Grand Tetons. California is handsome, with a splendor of success. It takes all three adjectives to describe Montana."

In 1941, Donald Curloss Peattie, a naturalist of the 1920's through the 1950s, included these words in his book "The Road of a...