We want to avert our eyes in situations like Ryan Ferguson’s, but we can’t – and shouldn’t. Ryan was convicted in 2005 of the 2001 murder and robbery of sport’s editor Kent Heitholt. As of September 1, 2013, Missouri keeps Ryan imprisoned after the only witnesses against him have admitted perjury at a habeas hearing.

Who invented football, bluegrass music, Mr. Potato Head, the Kentucky Derby, Sesame Street and the telephone? If you said Walter Camp, Bill Monroe, George Lerner, William Meriwether Lewis Clark Jr, Joan Ganz Cooney, and Antonio Meucci, respectively, then, you are smarter than this book. The answers and stories, along with 70 others, can be found within. Forgotten American inventors get recognized!

Summers in Montana are the most spectacular few months one can have anywhere in the world. Whether planning your first trip to Montana or luckily enough to call it home, Montana Summer: 101 Great Adventures in Big Sky Country should cram your calendar with uniquely exciting experiences.