![]() ![]() No writer could tell the story of the people and place better. The Dupuyer club is working on a downtown memorial as well. The highway designation is just the first step to honor Doig since his 2015 death. Monday, June 27, at the Dupuyer Community Hall. ![]() 89 with Montana Highway 219 near Pendroy, where the Doig family lived on the Jensen place, to the intersection with Montana Highway 44 near Valier, where Doig graduated high school in 1957.ĭupuyer is celebrating the designation from 4-6 p.m. The designation stretches from the intersection of U.S. The Dupuyer Community Club and the Montana Department of Transportation have worked together to establish the Ivan Doig Memorial Highway on U.S. “People are as enchanted by his writing as any of us are. “There’s worldwide interest,” Tonkovich said. She sells more copies of “This House of Sky” than any other book stocked at the Dupuyer Cache. ![]() ![]() He bought the first two of Ivan Doig’s McCaskills trilogy here and came halfway around the world to get the third, ‘Ride with Me, Mariah Montana.’ Fortunately it was in stock,” Tonkovich said. “The western skyline before us was filled high with a steel-blue army of mountains, drawn in battalions of peaks and reefs and gorges and crags as far along the entire rim of the earth as could be seen.” – Ivan Doig, “This House of Sky”ĭUPUYER – A man in front of Buffalo Joe’s Eatery and Saloon tipped his hat at Mary Tonkovich as she returned to town after a hike along the Rocky Mountain Front. ![]()
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