Told in the third person, it portrays an 11-year-old boy, who lives the rest of the year near Chicago with his mother and stepfather, on his annual hunting trip with his father in the Montana wilderness.

He had lived for 25 years in a one-room cabin in the Montana wilderness, living on vegetables from his own garden, fish and game.

Ten years later a part of Montana wilderness was set aside by Congress in his name.

With his father off fighting fires in the Montana wilderness, 16-year-old Joe Brinson learns that his mother is having an affair with one of the town's wealthier citizens.

Mr. Guterson said he had had dreams of taking a little time to enjoy the Montana wilderness, but the director had other ideas.

Mr. Kaczynski, who long ago quit academia for the Montana wilderness, now sits in a cell in Helena, Mont., charged with one Federal count of possessing bomb-making materials.

Mason and Bosco are lead dogs on one team in the Race to the Sky, a six-day competition that wends its way through 500 miles of Montana wilderness and 7,000-foot elevations.

The waters of this new river, pouring from high in a Montana wilderness, are bound for the Gulf of Mexico.

She slogged 400 miles through the Montana wilderness on a weeklong "adventure race" that included white-water kayaking, snowshoeing on glaciers and riding 100 miles on a mountain bike.

But Salazar soon escapes and becomes hopelessly lost in the Montana wilderness as he flees Denver and Lonigan's custody.