Montana Book Festival

Gayle Morrison has worked with the Hmong community in the U.S. for the past 38 years.  Her first book, Sky Is Falling, uses oral history to document the air evacuation of Hmong soldiers and their families from Laos in May 1975.  Her second book, Hog’s Exit: Jerry Daniels... Read More →

Ken is a historian, preservationist and a chronicler of neglected Montana history at the Overholser Historical Research Center in Fort Benton and the GreatFalls/Cascade County Historic Preservation Commission. Ken is an author of eight books, and his new book, Montanans in the Great... Read More →

Dr. Tom Rust is an Associate Professor of History and a native Montanan who graduated from the University of Minnesota, with a BA in History in 1992. He received his MA in History from the University in Denver in 1995 where his work in American military history, more specifically... Read More →