The Western Land Rush
Town and Country Magazine: Today’s run on land out west is spreading not American power but five-star living dressed up as frontiersmanship. Welcome to the home of end-table antlers and Escalades.
Montana State University report sheds light on newcomers to Treasure State
Daily Montanan: Obviously, people have been moving to larger communities in Montana, the study said. But it said so much media attention has focused on the “decline and despair” of rural towns, “it is less known that people are also moving to Montana’s rural communities.”
The dark side of America's new "Zoom towns"
Business Insider: There's a certain gloss associated with recent transplants in "Boz Angeles." The new nickname for Bozeman, Montana, is a wryly derisive nod to the cultural and economic changes spurred by new arrivals, and to their presumed origin. It's a gesture to the high-end coffee shops festooned with cowboy decor that are slowly encroaching on, say, affordable ranchland for real, living cows to graze on. It seems that at least some residents are in on the joke — and attuned to the tensions that lie beneath.