The Big Sandy Mountaineer -

Charlie Russell was saddened by what he called the death of the west. I know what he is talking about. I am saddened by the death of what this part of Montana used to be like when I was a boy in the 1940’s and early 1950’s.

I live on Sixth Street and while there are plenty of children in my neighborhood, you don’t see a lot of them out. Mainly I see kids from the east end making the trek to the skate board park on ninth street.

In my day, winter and summer we kids in my neighbor spent most of our time outside. In the summer it was long hikes, long games in our back alley like “Kick...