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Article: Big Sky heaven.(Paradise Valley, Montana)
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- Sunset
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- August 1, 2000
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Paradise Valley is Montana at its best
Imagine the opening of a movie about the 19th-century West. The camera sweeps over Livingston, situated on a bend in the Yellowstone River in southwestern Montana, its sturdy Victorian houses laid out in a grid bisected by railroad tracks. Follow the river south as it squeezes through a canyon that opens into the Paradise Valley--a broad valley set between the spiky Absarokas and the rounded Gallatin Range, where drowsy cattle graze in the lush, sunlit fields.
Now, look closer. As worthy as it is of the wide screen, this corner of Montana is no mere exercise in nostalgia. Long loved by Montanans, Livingston and the ...