Uncertain Endings

Fergus Falls News, August, 1909 J Montgomery hospitalized for insanity… young man’s situation is pitiable as he has been a cripple for a long time. A few days ago he became violent and mustering all his strength, endeavored to kill his mother and sister with an ax.

Yellowstone

when I can sit quietly with my son, a struggle that grows harder as he grows up, so that the memory I choose to unfold is not the wolf, or the river, or the geysers, but instead the hour I spent reading to him beside the washing machines in Bozeman