Montana, north of APR land. Brandings are cooperative affairs: Local families move from ranch to ranch, rounding up and branding neighbors’ cattle. “If you’re within 80 miles,” says ranche ...

the Chief Joseph Ranch—a functioning cattle ranch in Darby, Montana—is the official location for the Dutton family home. It’s a six-thousand-square-foot mansion where guests can rent out ...

As I stood atop a rocky precipice in central Montana, the most striking thing before me was nothing. More precisely, it was space: the all-encompassing nothingness for which the West is famous.

I’m a hands-on kind of guy,” he told the Wall Street Journal, which reported his more than $50 million purchase of an almost 37,000-acre cattle ranch near White Sulphur Springs, Montana.

Live the moment: While the days of the open range are long past, cattle driving opportunities may still be found in Montana. Bear Creek Ranch in Glacier County hosts a weeklong cattle drive with ...