09/14/08 NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday
Length: 4:45 ~ Listen
Featured in this What's in a Song episode is Stan Howe and his song "Take Me Back Along the Yellowstone. Howe is a Montana chauvinist and takes inordinate pride in his home state. Though almost all of Yellowstone National Park is within the state boundaries of Wyoming, Montana people claim the Yellowstone River as their own. The Yellowstone runs through southern and southeastern Montana and, as an undammed river, represents the free spirit Montanans see as their essential character.
