Montana is known for its proliferation of blue-ribbon trout
streams. Yet most folks don’t know the long and short of
Montana’s rivers. The longest is the Missouri, which flows 1,029
miles from Three Forks to the North Dakota border. The Roe River
was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the
world’s shortest at 201 feet. Makoshika: Pronounce it ma-KOE-
sheek-ah. Montana’s largest state park, whose name meant “bad
earth” or “bad land” to the Sioux Indians, is a geologist’s
paradise. 11,400 acres of layered rock formations studded with
pine and juniper house the fossil remains of dinosaurs such as
tyrannosaurus rex and triceratops. Plenty of movies have been
filmed here. So if you’re out on the Gallatin River catching
cutthroat trout, look down at the rock you’re standing on. Brad
Pitt may have done the same in A River Runs Through It. Or talk
calmly to a horse outside of Livingston and pretend you’re
Robert Redford in The Horse Whisperer. Choteau — Pronounce it
“Show-Toe.” This cozy nest between t