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This brand new hardback goes on sale nationwide tomorrow(!) Tuesday & it's up for grabs TODAY (Monday) on Puffman Musical Trivia at 4:30. "An Unwilling Accomplice" by New York Times Bestseller Charles Todd is a dynamite read! Mr. Todd, Best Historical Fiction Agatha Award Winner for "A Question of Honor", explores life during World War I on this 100th Anniversary of the Gre

I'll be up at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby this evening (Tuesday) to read & share more "Montana History." We just started a fantastic read..."Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune" & I can't wait to delve into more of the book tonight. Author...

Tall Todd, the custom cutter guy & his crew are cutting winter wheat & barley down in Forsyth this week. Todd reports that he was glad to get out of the Denver area when he did. He reports that they were about to float away down there, as the rains have arrived. Word r...

This is the gritty memoir that I'll be giving away tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 7:30 on Puffman Sports Trivia. In "Pain Don't Hurt; Fighting Inside And Outside The Ring", kickboxer & MMA fighter Mark "Fightshark" Millerv documents his struggle to make peace with the demons spawned by his tragic family history. Bo...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control estimated that in 2011, 6.4 million children-or 11% of American children ages 4 to 17-had a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). To treat this, these young people are frequently subjected to heavy dosing & often-risky psychopharmacological drug therapies that can have negative long-term side effects. Wh...

"Tall" Todd reports that he is FINALLY getting to harvest some winter wheat in the Leoti, Kansas area. The boys had to move some 40 miles west of Leoti & 10 miles south, within 2 miles of the Colorado State Line to find dry wheat. The ground down there is marginal farm ground & with this year's lack of moisture, they were cutting some 9 bushel stuff in the poorest spots, but ther

I received word on "Tall" Todd, the custom harvester fellow, this morning & the "Boys" have moved on to Leoti, Kansas. Todd says the crops are not quite ready as there are green spots in them. Either that, or Todd's seeing spots in front of his eyes! Se...

Puffman here blogging about a truly unique opportunity for an "Experience of a Lifetime" right here in our Golden Triangle & it's happening next week over at the Cut Bank Airport. The B-25J "Maid In The Shade" historic WW11 bomber that served in actual combat will be touching down at the Cut Bank Airport at noon on Monday & will be available for rides Monday through Thu

It's one of the finest railroad books that I've ever come across & I'll have a chance to interview the author, my friend, Brian Solomon, this afternoon (Wednesday),at 4:30 on the Puffman Show. My name is Puff & I'm a Railway Buff. "The Twilight of Steam: Great Photography from the Last Days of Steam Locomotives in America" is a compelling beautiful hardcover coffee table presenta

Ripley's Believe It or Not(!) is now accepting entries to its 2nd annual "Strange Mail Contest." This little gem is so simple that our listeners here in north central Montana can simply "Mail it in" when it comes to entering. In fact, that's the whole point...

"Tall" Todd, the custom harvester fellow who comes up to our Golden Triangle every harvest season, along with his crew, is on his way WEST to Texas. They're moving to the northern most part of the panhandle of Texas, which is a town call Perryton, "The Wheat Heart of the Nation...

It's MONDAY(!) & that means Puffman Musical Trivia Day this afternoon at 4:30. I'll be giving away the hardback book, "The Failure of Counterinsurgency; Why Hearts and Minds Are Seldom Won." The book's author, Ivan Eland, PhD, is director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute in Oakland, California. Previo...