Inside a Yellowstone gateway town’s colorful, artistic, outlaw past through centuries-old words etched into a lodgepole signpost.
Author Archives: Katie O'Reilly
Katie O'Reilly is a freelance journalist covering outdoor adventure, public lands, environmental ethics and green lifestyle. She spent seven years as an editor at Sierra magazine, and her work appears in the Atlantic, Outside, Runner's World, Alpinist, Buzzfeed, and Thrillist, among others. Katie studied journalism at Northwestern University and creative nonfiction at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. A native of Chicago, she now lives in a patch of pine forest outside Missoula, Montana, with her husband, young daughter, and two rambunctious mutts.


