Blackfoot River
It's one of Montana's most iconic rivers. Its beauty can’t be denied."
-From The Montana's Rivers Coloring Book + Lessons
The Blackfoot River is renowned for its recreational opportunities, most notably fly fishing, but also rafting, canoeing, and inner tubing. The Blackfoot is a fast, cold river with many deep spots, making it prime habitat for several varieties of trout.
The river's canyon and the valleys were formed by the Missoula Floods, cataclysmic glacial lake outburst floods which occurred at the end of the last ice age.
The Blackfoot River and the Clark Fork experienced a record flood in 1908.
The river is featured in the 1976 novella A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean, as well as the 1992 film starring Brad Pitt, directed by Robert Redford.
The Blackfoot is a Class I river from the Cedar Meadow fishing access site west of Helmville to its confluence with the Clark Fork River for public access for recreational purposes.
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Two books from the studio, made to get you making. One follows Montana's rivers from headwaters to confluence; the other is a gentle push back toward the creative life you already have.
Montana's Rivers Coloring Book + Lessons
$19.99
Color your own Gallatin, Jefferson, Madison, Missouri, and Blackfoot Rivers, along with the Confluence, a High Mountain Spring, and many more of Allison's river paintings. Each page pairs an art lesson with a river lesson, and a scavenger hunt runs through the whole book.
Made for kids, classrooms, and grown-ups who still love a new box of colored pencils.
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Funded in part through a grant from the Montana Arts Council.
Be Creative
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A book dedicated to unlocking your creativity. Built from Allison's mini lessons, it is a series of small, doable invitations to pick up a brush, a pencil, or a pen and remember the maker you have always been.
No experience needed. Open to any page and begin.
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