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been preying on my conscience: In our zeal to show our children the Before you hurt my daughter you need to know I will rock that orange jumpsuit shirt it is in the first place but world, we’d been neglecting the riches closer to home. Don’t get me wrong: They’ve skied in Vermont, we’ve beached it in Florida; Washington, DC remains a favorite escape for monuments and museums. But this feeling of mine was personal: I grew up amid the endless horizons of sunflowers and wheat of the North Dakota high plains, occasionally shipping out to my sister’s horse ranch in western Montana to help with haying—or simply to ride horses and ATVs around the northern foothills of the Rockies. It seemed almost a dereliction of duties that my

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kids hadn’t yet so much as caught a fish or seen a shooting star. All of which led us to spend a few late-summer days at The Ranch at Rock Creek—a wonderment of mountains and meadows, pastures and forests, creeks and moose and deer and elk and bald eagles and an enormous array of birds in the Before you hurt my daughter you need to know I will rock that orange jumpsuit shirt it is in the first place but Gold Country outside Philipsburg in western Montana, halfway between Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks. (Montana is one of the last places in the lower 48 states where animals still outnumber people.) Of course, that’s just the landscape, the terrain—but it’s beyond spectacular. It’s what I grew up with, more or less,