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Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2010-04-23 11:21 pm

This may be a bit of a long shot ...

... but is anyone on my f'list from Montana, or has spent enough time there to be kinda familiar with the geography?

There's a story I want to set there (original, not fanfic). I don't plan on nailing down the location in too much detail if I can help it, but I'd like to set it in rural ranch country with a local sheriff's department if possible. It's set in the late 1980s and there's a supernatural creature killing livestock, which is blamed at first on wolves or cougars.

Is there anyone who has some familiarity with rural or semi-rural Montana and doesn't mind answering some questions regarding basic geography and lifestyles? If necessary, I can move it from Montana to someplace similar elsewhere around the Rockies, though for some reason my brain said "Montana!" when I queried it for a location and has become fairly stuck on the idea. The main character - well, one of them - is a person with a supernatural secret who deliberately sought somewhere remote enough, with no close neighbors, that he could feel reasonably safe from discovery, although this was a few decades ago that he moved there and the area may have gotten more populated since.
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[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/tesserae_/ 2010-04-24 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you know [livejournal.com profile] julia_here? She has, I think, a more-than-passing familiarity with Montana, and I'm sure she'd be open to an email. (You can tell her I referred you, if you don't know her.)

[identity profile] kristen999.livejournal.com 2010-04-24 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you know [livejournal.com profile] negolith2? She's from Montana? I'm sure she'd be very open to any questions. Just tell her I rec'd her to you. :D
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[identity profile] abyssinia4077.livejournal.com 2010-04-24 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I work with someone who went to college there. If you don't get other help, let me know and I'll try to pass questions on.

[identity profile] sgafan.livejournal.com 2010-04-26 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
I live in northern Idaho, which is close and have a bit of familiarity with Montana, if I can be of any help :)

[identity profile] sgafan.livejournal.com 2010-04-27 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure! Let me know if I can help. :)