Kareen Bratt has lived with a lifelong disappointment; unable to claim that she was "born and raised" in Montana, since her parents drove across the border into Idaho, to the closest hospital, for her birthing. But raised she was, on the prairies of Eastern Montana, next to the Missouri River, awash in the history of homesteading, steamboats, Lewis and Clark and the early days of the state. She and her Midwest husband lived and worked most of their married life in Western Montana, within view of the mountains of Glacier Park and Flathead Lake. They are the parents of three grown children, eigh...