In September 2004 we finally got around to making the trip to Montana we had dreamed about taking ever since we had watched Clint Eastwood in "Rawhide" on a Black and White TV back in the 1960s. Not that we had really given any thoughts to such exotic fantasies in those poverty-stricken years but time moves on and, despite the best efforts of successive governments to tax what I thought I had honestly earned, fortunes did improve and here we were actually on our way to see the real thing with the added bonus of it being presented in colour! Montana was reached by placing one's trust in United Airways out of Heathrow, flying to Chicago; transferring to Denver then finally making the relatively short hop to Missoula. We stayed and toured around Montana for about
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