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ntitled the “Front Porch of the Rockies!” and indeed it is. Choteau sits about 20 miles to the east of one of the great American landscapes … the abrupt collision of the Northern Rocky Mountains and the prairie … Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front. The 1,684 folks living here own bragging rights to residing amid some of the finest outdoor opportunities and scenery anywhere. The place has a story that goes back in time to the dinosaurs and ancient travelers. Paleontologists, including Jack Horner, of MSU’s Museum of the Rockies, have discovered dinosaur-nesting grounds on the appropriately named Egg Mountain just west of town. This finding of a vegetarian, nurturing, prehistoric animal challenges the old vicious, voracious carnivore image that had been held of these creatures. The approximately 10,000-year-old Old North Trail, leading from the Arctic to Central America, and used by the first people to enter North America, as well as Indian tribes that arrived in what would become Mon-