As far-reaching as the Big Sky, and yet as intimate as a conversation by a glimmering campfire, this book holds within its calloused hands the comradery women long for. The hilarity of situations in which these six women find themselves will have you laughing 'til your cheeks ache. Set against a panorama of enduring depictions of Montana character, the Wax Night women strip away pleasantries to bare their souls. Friendship takes the heroine role, displaying power to shine light upon despair. Written with equal measures of hilarity, haunting, and healing, the characters within will resonate long after the last page is savored.

After several years’ absence, Noah Calder has returned to Blackfoot Falls, Montana to be the town's sheriff.

This cowboy can make any girl melt!

Western Montana looked nothing like it's eastern counterpart. Montana was a state known for sweeping plains and low rolling hills. Western Montana was completely different it was a heavily forested area with mountains, lakes and fresh streams. It was winter, Christmas eve in fact and it was cold outside. The wind howled loudly as it roared down the valley. With the howling of the wind came the even more ominous howling of wolves. "Pa, pa I heard wolves" cried out Terry.

For more than half a century, grizzly bears roamed free in the national parks without causing a human fatality. Then in 1967, on a single August night, two campers were fatally mauled by enraged bears -- thus signaling the beginning of the end for America's greatest remaining land carnivore. Night of the Grizzlies, Olsen's brilliant account of another sad chapter in America's vanishing frontier, traces the causes of that tragic night: the rangers' careless disregard of established safety precautions and persistent warnings by seasoned campers that some of the bears were acting "funny"; the comforting belief that the great bears were not really dangerous -- would attack only when provoked. The popular sport that summer was to lure the bears with spotlights and leftover scraps -- in hopes of providing the tourists with a show, a close look at the great "teddy bears." Everyone came, some of the younger campers even making bold enough to sleep right in the path of the grizzlies' known route of arrival. This modern "bearbaiting" could have but one tragic result…