MONTANA IS AS BEAUTIFUL as she is unpredictable. Weather can change in a heartbeat, and that was never more evident than when I attended a recent edition of the Hell’s A-Roarin’ Horse Drive. I was prepared, but not for 39 degrees and a slow drizzle, which became an outright downpour. Seeing me soaked to the bone, a horseback gentleman reminded me that “sweet things melt in the rain” and in good cowboy fashion untied his slicker from the back of his saddle and handed it down to me.
We had assembled at the entrance of Yellowstone Park in
