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Though Bozeman is becoming one

of the best towns to live in in the

country, it still survives with

remnants of its past. They flickerpast the eye, staying undecidedly

below a conscious detection.

Bozemans Forgotten Past

By: Cavin Losett


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Mmmm

Hiding behind history and an unbeknownst

ignorance, the past, of what used to be a small

mountain town, speaks in wordsyet no voice but

that given to it by an author who can only

surmise. Flour that used to package in 100 lb bags

off of Wallace and Peach St. now only survives

What used to support

a hustle of trade andcommerce now sits

delinquent, windows

sorrowfully shattered

tears speak of better


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Forgotten spokes of

industry leave a

rusting sentimentality

of age and ageless

diffidence. Words that

were so carefully

sprawled upon blank

templates to inform, to

catch the eye, to draw

in commerce,

remainbut are gone.What used to be

staples among the

community that was

more comprised of

ranchers and farmers,

now host pictorial


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An article by

Lanford Wilson

entitled Creating

Art With theWritten Word

discusses the

importance and

value we place on

paintings with text

moment so specific, we never doubt that the artist was

completely present, trying to tell ussomething, which

brings the question of what these artist were trying to

tell us? Did they imagine their works, their discourse, to

be a remnant so many years after its conception? Their

words, and images, clinging on long after the motive

they were created for has gone; slowly, fading paint is


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A silence so

cacophonous that you

cannot help but to

stop and listen,

imagining thesymphony of sound

that once inhabited

the very corners you

now see drenched in

shadow. A perfect

productwheatthe

perfect product. Didwhomever painted

these words

understand the

gravity, the absolute

Though in the

midst of dilapidated

memories and faded

paint there lies atrickle of business,

inhabitants of what

we now deem

Bozemans historic

district. They are

the ones standing on

the shoulders ofgiants, a view

allowing the

historic overtures to

add benefits and

a eal to otential


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o e e e o o lo e o e o o e o o e

e ee . le o o e othe modernity of the 21stcentury; where you can

One such business

epitomizes a grasp to the

past in our age of cell-

phones, computers, and

Justin Bieber; with a

slogan of declaration that

would make a spit-prone

cowpoke crack a wheezy

smile, The Stockyard

Caf (Calfe) promises a

break from a constantengagement in sensory

technology and

everything else that pulls

location, and the sign

on the side of the caf

spelling CALFE Find

IT!. So what isit that

compels people to pack

the Stockyard parking

lot every weekend (they

are not open on

weekdays)? I believe

that it has to do with

the status perceived bypatrons of the little

Caf. It offers a setting

more in keeping with

rural Montana, it


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o e e l o e el le e ee e e e e o l e

e w en v ew n e de o e a e u ld n onsun-swept evening, going inside to enjoy Moscow Mule

and a saucy Reuben sandwich, and know that this

place, Bozeman, is something special. With

neighborhoods united by both history and new

business, a creative coalition by the latter, but induced

by the former that allows businesss to thrive under


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