Welcome to The Write Question, a program that explores the world of writing and publishing in the Western United States. Our guest today is historian Dan Flores, author of Visions of the Big Sky: Painting and Photographing the Northern Rocky Mountain West. This program is Part 1. Part 2 will air next week.

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In VISIONS OF THE BIG SKY, Dan Flores revisits the Northern Rockies artistic tradition to explore its diversity and richness. In his essays about the artists, photographers, and thematic historical imagery of the region, he blends art and cultural history with personal reflection to assess the formation of the region's character.

Dan Flores holds the A.B. Hammond Chair in Western History at the University of Montana, Missoula. He is the author of eight books and numerous articles published in magazines such as Texas Monthly, The Big Sky Journal, Southwest Art, and High Country News. He divides his time between the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana, and the Galisteo Raiver Valley outside Santa Fe, New Mexico.

You can hear Dan Flores - Part 2 on October 7 at 7:30 p.m. (or at 6:30 p.m. on Yellowstone Public Radio).

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Dan Flores's page on the University of Montana Web site.

"In Montana: A View From The Ranchette," an article by Dan Flores published in High Country News.

Buy VISIONS OF THE BIG SKY, and other books by Dan Flores at Fact & Fiction in Missoula, or at your local independent bookseller.

The Write Question is produced by Chérie Newman.

Read an interview with TWQ producer Chérie Newman on the Humanities Montana Web site.

Executive producer, Michael Marsolek.

Special thanks to Lisa Simon, David Moore, Barbara Theroux, and Kim Anderson.

This program is supported in part by Humanities Montana, enriching intellectual, cultural, and civic life for all Montanans. And by the Montana Cultural Trust.

The music in this program was written and performed by Aaron Minnick and John Floridis.

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Guests on the The Write Question are writers, publishers, and illustrators living, or working for an extended period of time, in the western United States. The Write Question is a production of Montana Public Radio.