This Is What Life Is Like In Small Town Montana

Small towns: Big Problems. Is rural Montana in jeopardy?
We went to the small town of Lewistown, Montana to check out how life is in the most 'perfect' Montana town. We found out it's not so perfect.
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[@NickJohnson]

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[@patricksmith2274]

I'm sure that's how the original inhabitants felt ( Native Americans). Unfortunately it wasn't a non-profit organization that moved them out but government and Army. I say this because it leaves me on the fence about their situation. One I feel they should be left alone because it's part of the diversity of American life and then on the other hand I see it as a delayed Karma from the past. It's a tough call. It also reminds me of the gentrification that is currently happening in the big cities.

[@Mr.Howell78k]

​​@@vardekpetrovic9716How far do you live from a sea? Which one? Do you work "on" the sea?🛶🚢⛵.

[@stevesyverson8625]

@@patricksmith2274 paragraph structure is recommended for clarity of thought. Just saying my brother.

[@patricksmith2274]

@stevesyverson8625 despite the paragraph structure you have a problem with, it's simple enough to have an understanding of what's being written. Just saying grammar teacher.

[@Khayyam-vg9fw]

@@patricksmith2274 Cost-free virtue signalling on your part, methinks.

[@karukun0212]

Nick, great one. similar moves are occurring in central rural Utah. Some months ago, trying to slip an initiative in under the table, but required to have a local meeting, we surprised the out-of-state funded movement by showing up with over a hundred attendees loudly voicing opposition. Globalism is on the march everywhere, well-funded and trying to change the universe. Every time we learn of what our neighbors are facing, and realize its the same story that we have in our town, it strengthens We the People's resolve.

[@halfdome4158]

They are stealing and decimating everywhere. I saw that Casper, Wyoming now has a homeless (transient) and, "human waste, " problem. Destroying cities and towns, buying up land. Montana and Wyoming will soon be filled with illegals as well. A totalitarian kleptocracy. The end of America.

[@JessJoanne]

Gotta watch out for these cash grabs like Vanguard too. Nice to see you all showing up and fighting. Wish there was more of that in California. My community's ranch, cattle and horse life is being washed away by rich people up North. Endless wineries, overpaying for homes, turning beer joints and mom and pop restaurants into fine dining and wine tasting venues. Everything is being catered to tourists and it's pushing out the good ol' town.

[@cathrynm]

This is one of Nick's best videos. This 'save the cowboy' story is compelling.

[@LuckyLarry33]

Amen!

[@faraday6884]

@@cathrynm This '1' video alerted me to the FACT that it is possible the Swiss Billionaire WYSS that resides in Wilson, Montana & is doing the same thing as AMERICAN PRAIRIE RESERVE could be tied to Wyss that just joined with George Soros to allegedly acquire the MAINE newspapers in that state according to REBEL NEWS. There's a video here on You Tube by AMERICANS FOR PUBLIC TRUST "STOP WYSS LOOPHOLE" When American Prairie Reserve kicked NICK OUT, It really got my attention to the Fascist way they are running their NGO Now, I'm on a roll & won't stop digging about all this

[@071856]

They are trying to destroy Montana just like they have Colorado. Don't give up your land!

[@Joe_J-MT_Boy]

They don't 'give up their land'. They sell it for more money than they could ever take from it raising grain or cattle or sheep. When you can do that and never work another day in your life, what do you do? Hang around and tough it out so Lewistown can survive as it was? There's no logic there. In the high country, the millionaires and billionaires buy these legacy ranches and post it to local hunters. Their rich buddies fly in and enjoy some of the best hunting on the planet, cropping off trophy bull elk... and maybe THEN the landowner opens his place up to the regular citizens. If he doesn't, when the elk start tearing apart his hay stacks, FWP won't police a Special Season on that ranch to get the elk numbers down to a more manageable population level. How did they get control of that legacy ranch? Answer: the legacy rancher sold it to them. When it happens and it's far away from where you live = no big deal. If it's close and the ranch that sold is one you're familiar with, well... that's different. Right? Hypocritical... good word.

[@matteopicone5561]

What happened in Colorado?

[@andrediorde1520]

@@matteopicone5561radical policies caused a huge drug and homeless issue. Now it’s very run down, crowded, overdeveloped and expensive

[@cyrusblackwood33]

@@andrediorde1520 Bingo! It was the democrats, of course. I'm a Coloradan btw...

[@AZGT350]

@@cyrusblackwood33..lolololol.. I’ll take Cali over any Republican state any day. Republicans have ruined Texas and Florida. And who wants to live in poor red states in the south full of racists and rednecks. No thanks…

[@aliciaperret8000]

Farmers and Ranchers are the backbone of this county. I am rooting for the cowboys. This is their home and livelihood and outsiders need to step aside.

[@TheWanderingFinnegan]

You still eat stuff from factory farms and industrial ranches? 🤢🤮

[@AbhinavSrivastava-xe7xi]

The people with more money and power win. Just like hundreds of years ago, British killed natives with savage viruses, their time now has come, and they will be replaced by their with more money and affluence. The cycle continues.

[@Khayyam-vg9fw]

@@TheWanderingFinnegan Better than bugs and printed steaks.

[@cpkarkow663]

I’m sure there are folks from Rocky Boys and Fort Peck who would agree about « outsiders » stepping aside.

[@EdwinHernandez-jo6ce]

They ain’t the backbone of shit.

[@jimharvey4941]

''THIS IS THE GOVERNMENT THE FOUNDERS WARNED US ABOUT'''

[@MonicaSĪGÑofJõñãhYUNIS]

I just noticed a book called, "Kabbalah and The Founding of America." GREAT! So, Sorcerer's founded America‽

[@michaels7159]

Lmao the founders were trash

[@tylerdurden4289]

@@michaels7159they founded one of the greatest nations the world has ever seen. It’s not perfect but it is great. Please tell us, what have you achieved with your life, oh wise one?

[@viliamgajdos5917]

@@tylerdurden4289 that great nation has blood on her body and is based on threating others. the trick behind the great progress was that mostly men from europe went to that great nation to work and pretty much built the country. some of them stayed, some of them went back home. those who stayed became entrepreneurs etc. and of course those few rich european families financed that great progress.

[@kevinh8338]

What happens to our food supply when all of the farmland is turned into ‘wild prairie? (The billionaire who owns the most US farmland wants us to eat bugs 😋)

[@a.e2385]

There won't be any people in the state of montana before 2030. They will either be eliminated or forced into smart cities

[@asullivan4047]

Isn't that a staple in North Korea-???🤔.

[@davejavumorse0416]

Hey Nick, great video, as always. I'm originally from Southern California and moved to Middle Tennessee farmland a couple of decades ago. I live in between two beef farms, I grow vegetables, and I can tell you farmers are natural conservationists. they don't need anybody coming in, showing them how to do that. They may be super right wings, but they do understand global warming and conservation. After all, that's the future of their business. But I can also assure folks that farmers are the hardest working people I've ever met in my life. They are out there tending to the lifestock no matter how cold it is, It could be negative twenty, and they are out there early in the morning, taking care of business. It's an open market, and I hope the cowboys understand that no matter how much money they are offered, they do not have to sell. I get offered big dollars all the time for my bit of heaven. I'm not selling. Rock on Yall

[@faheemabbas3965]

There’s only a limited amount of land in the world. It’s only going to become more valuable.

[@ricksmith4736]

I bet your neighbors love you

[@davejavumorse0416]

@ricksmith4736 I think they do, We have all agreed not to sell out. That was over a decade ago and no one has done it. I live in Williamson County, Tennessee, and the average home in my immediate area is a little over a million. It tends to be very hot real estate no matter what. But my neighborhood looks like the pictures that 5 had in the video. Beautiful, small town area. And we'd like to keep it that way as best we can. There's a lot of similarities of your town and mine and they could be sister cities.

[@laurahiggins7647]

@dave I agree with you. The farmers & ranchers ARE the conservationists. Reminds me of the old westerns & the carpetbaggers would come into town & if not stopped, where there was peace chaos ensues. Don't believe their lies, they always have an agenda. Stay strong & free.

[@wandataylor3862]

I was born and raised in Lewistown and currently only live 45 miles from the town. It will always be my hometown. We inherited property at Hilger and we wanted to put it in our will that the land would never be sold to the American Prairie Reserve. MT farmers and ranchers are great conservationists. You failed to mention the great churches in Central Montana. They provide the foundation to live the Montana way.

[@stubru16]

I live in the U.K in Yorkshire it’s very similar to Montana but obviously smaller we have countryside full of farms and most small towns are ex coal mining areas, we have a big problem with people moving into the area from London the city people want to buy land build everywhere. It’s ruining the community. I completely agree with the cowboy when he says people are moving demographically into Montanan there is a reason, don’t move here and try and change it to where you came from, come here and appreciate it for what it is. well said sir

[@manager4409]

British people are being replaced with Muslim immigration

[@GruenerGummistiefel]

Hahahaha I lived in Skipton and this had nothing similar with Montana wooly sheep black horse or red lion 🦁 you will not find in Montana. Lol

[@franks3531]

bin 2 Yorkshire

[@franks3531]

ikley

[@bendover-bz4bc]

How about your own greedy people don't sell the land for quick profit?

[@Mrdana3438]

I'm a black man living in Baltimore. I guarantee you black folks are safer in that small town than they are in urban black communities.

[@davehughesfarm7983]

Until ya start acting like them in those urban hellscapes.

[@HairyPixels]

Black people were safer in the Jim Crow south than they are today. Blacks were safer under Apartide in S.A than they are today. Everyone needs to do some serious soul searching on this one.

[@danielrapkoch2995]

Being from Lewistown, I can guarantee your safety in my former small town.

[@mattcorriere9039]

Demographics are everything. Poor whites in West Virginia don't act like poor urban blacks. Both have real problems but it's their respons to those problems that makes the difference.

[@tupacamaruiv5804]

You are perfectly safe in rural Montana. The good people of Lewistown aren’t unique. The state is full of great people. It’s the modern Democratic party that bring their twisted ideas of what Montana should be that degrade our state.

[@David-nx2vm]

I was in the Air Force in Montana in the ‘80s and Lewistown was right in the middle of our Minuteman missile field (24000 sq mi). I have been through Lewistown about 100 times. It was great. It’s nowhere near an interstate highway, so it gets few visitors. Super friendly people back then…

[@davidbrayshaw3529]

Everyone on the planet has the same wants and needs, and to one extent or another, the same problems. The way that we resolve these challenges vary greatly from person to person, community to community, race to race and religion to religion. You can't choose what race you are. For many, it's inconceivable to pick your religion. Plenty of people around the planet don't have the option to choose the community that they live in. But all of us can change the person that we are.

[@micosstar]

facts@@davidbrayshaw3529

[@Lifetalk849]

Hey Nick, I'm pulling for the cowboys, too!!!👍👍👍 And I suspect that there's a whole lotta other Americans on this side of the fence. Wish there was a way to cast a ballot on this issue!!! Just wanna give those cowboys, ranchers & family farmers a HUGE thumbs up!!!

[@NickJohnson]

Sara! 🤠 ❤️ 🇺🇸

[@JessJoanne]

I'm pulling for them too! Sad that the word 'Prairie' has a bad rap to it. I've always loved that word.

[@Logan-ed4pu]

That non-profit did NOT help their case at all lol. That's sketchy.

[@AndreaSimone57]

Yeah like just be friendly what the heck?!

[@desdicadoric]

No doubt owned by Blackrock and Vanguard, or Bill Gates

[@spencerfarnik2838]

I want to know more about where their money comes from. Obviously they have millions and millions of dollars. Who is behind it and where do they get their money?

[@benallmark9671]

@@spencerfarnik2838 likely Soros or a frontman for him or someone with the same agenda to destroy North America and wipe out the population. That’s my opinion anyway, not that anybody gives a 💩.

[@RoadRunnergarage8570]

A Non Profit Socialist Communist Organization...

[@louisspataro278]

This is part of a larger effort to eliminate the "deplorables" from middle America. I don't want to sound too paranoid, but I'm convinced that they want to herd all of us into one of their horrible cities and fill the rest of the land with wolves and windmills in some kind of weird, science-fictiony false utopia. I won't live in one of those nightmarish "15 minute" cities even at the point of the gun. Thank you, Nick for the great videos. Resist that future, everyone!

[@sb-tb1oh]

Like the Enclosures of 16th century Britain 😢 😡

[@davehughesfarm7983]

They call us deplorables then when I visit a city is all I see are degenerates, malcontents and imbeciles...

[@Khayyam-vg9fw]

@OneBigUnion No, they weren't. Who's paying you to post your lies?

[@mhsmww]

My stance as well. Only a fool would want to live like that. It's feeling like the socialists and commies want to price and regulate us out of freedom and back to a type of feudal living and relying on the government teat. Oh and have just one party who can realistically have the power. It should alternate and the checks and balances should provide equal treatment and justice processes. Only a moron wants one type of thinking in power all the time.

[@mhsmww]

​@OneBigUnionUnfounded propaganda. OneBigUnion? More like nwo for you lol.

[@incog99skd11]

We have land in Idaho. A river runs through it. As tenders of the land we always set aside some of it to grow feed for the wild turkeys, grouse and other wildlife. We know what to plant and we know the native species. We don't need any help from the government. A guy wanted to buy our land and set it aside for conservation. We sent him packing. By the way, it was the government that built all the hydroelectric plants on the Snake River which made all of the Salmon go extinct on our river.

[@shake741]

The government provides a lot of funding to individual states. Why so much hate? Whats wrong with land for conservation?

[@patjones5723]

​@@shake741Stop asking crazy questions and do some research 😊

[@Hurricane0721]

Bad publicity for any non-profit organization should always be avoided at all costs! The National Prairie Reserve’s rudeness, elusiveness, and hostility on a popular KZbin channel is very detrimental and highly suspicious against their organization. Unfortunately, the people at the NPR were obviously way too foolish to understand that concept. Personally I will absolutely refuse to support any organization that acts like that just because they disagree with someone else’s point of view!

[@mattstickle2725]

The cowboy was very well spoken and made great points. A red state guy that I could actually have a conversation with. Like to see that. Not all guns ablazin

[@deborahnagel9011]

if a non profit don't want to talk about how great they are ,something is wrong ?

[@SilverSunPublishing]

These non-profits, non-gov agencies, are PRETENDERS. Their agenda is way different from what they pretend. Look up Agenda 21-30 and Georgia Guide Stones. Do not consent to their EVIL.

[@jordanshaw1828]

I grew up in a small(ish) town in Louisiana. As much as I still think about it to this day (considering my parents are still there) it is easy to get wrapped up in romanticizing some of these small towns across the country if you aren't from there. The reality is if you didnt have the right last name, the right clothes, the right style, or the right beliefs, you never really felt at home or comfortable. I've since moved to a somewhat larger city in another state and it comes with its fair share of problems most definitely, but at least I can live my life the way I intend without fear of repercussion for "not fitting in."

[@manager4409]

In a small town there's going to be limited amount of people to befriend. If you strike out with them you're on your own and no reason to stay there. At least cities there's way more people to potentially meet.

[@Math-Tulane]

“Right last name” - do you mean small town politics? Like a few influential families make the calls or somehow “rule” the city ? Like their the qb1 of the high school football team can’t throw a decent 60 yard out but still gets to start because he has that last name?

[@patjones5723]

​@@Math-TulaneYup and yes....exactly 💯👍😊

[@slaytonmarks7537]

That nonprofit was financed as cover for big developers. They buy huge tracks of land & build thousands of homes with some commercialization. Gentrification in the prairies. This is what happened in small Texas towns. Now they are big crowded towns/cities. It has made homes a commodity which is why housing market is out of control. Stock market of the US.

[@joshhiggins4723]

“Where everyone owns a gun and knows where you live” … theres a lot to be said for the quality of life that brings. 😃

[@PatrickThreewit]

In my region last week, I met two people who did not shoot. I was a bit shocked.

[@joannunemaker6332]

As beautiful as this place is, I would really hate the winters. But, I would love to see this place in person. I really liked this video.😊❤

[@robertwatkins364]

They call it the snow hole! LOL I was working at the Hackamore supper club in 1989 just west of Lewistown. One night we got 18 inches of snow! They plow the emergency routes first, I was trapped at home for 4 days! Just a block from main street!

[@lewiswhite722]

In a hundred years the world will need farmland to feed the exploding population. Farmers feed cities. Like the woman said: there`s lots of parks already. Keep the farms going. If people want to go for a hike send them to the mountains. Beautiful scenery!

[@lewiswhite722]

Kind of like the fish population in the oceans.@@LilyGazou

[@deirdre5940]

It is really the Chinese buying this land. God bless the local land owners trying to keep their land. That non profit is shady.

[@damonmelendez856]

Biden’s America. Sell off everything to whoever pays the most bribes

[@damonmelendez856]

@@lidic693 no, it’s not fine either. Special interests need to be pried away from the levers of power.

[@FlintIronstag23]

If it is really the Chinese buying the land, that might work out in the future. If China decides to invade Taiwan in the future, one of the first sanctions that will be imposed on them is freezing their American assets. The Chinese owned American property could then be seized and resold.

[@asullivan4047]

That's been going on for decades since marxist democratic😈 bill clinton was in the oval office-!!!😳

[@ProjectPete]

This is a way to force people into urban centers where they can plan and control every aspect of your life. This is financed by foreign interests.

[@michaelbrinks8089]

Klaus Schwab at the WEF said, "You will own nothing and be happy." 😂 Question: If you can be happy owning nothing. Then why are they trying so hard to own everything? The irony of billionaires saying you'll be happier if you own nothing.

[@butcherwoman3753]

They are not buying as a preserve that is a front only, do they really think that us commoners were born in a barn? The whole country is going to shit in a hurry.

[@shawnmeyer2788]

Agenda21- Agenda2030

[@lauraC1082]

@@butcherwoman3753 Agree!!

[@mattdecker6791]

Yes. This is a liberal/communist land grabbing utopia probably financed by hostile foreign interests. It's not about tourism, it's about controlling and enslaving the population, while erasing small town America.

[@lizgreer6888]

I originally really wanted to hear more about the non-profit but they were super sketchy... the Save the Cowboys people love their land and their farms and their community. You can see it in their eyes and the way they speak about it. Thank you for this, I never would have known

[@Ludo_Liu]

yeahhh always so nice to see a new upload from you brother ! greetings from a french guy in Nigeria

[@NickJohnson]

🇫🇷 🇳🇬 ❤️❤️

[@billieknobbbe]

I'd love to see this place in the middle of WINTER, lol.

[@devengudinas1649]

Burr

[@brianschneck3423]

Come on out it’s only -35 for weeks on end ❤

[@twytch97]

Non-Montanans have no clue how incredibly cold it gets lol

[@incog99skd11]

Bring your long underwear, LOL.

[@NewHaven203]

I really enjoyed seeing footage from this small town. There’s something special about Montana and it’s wide, open land, blue skys, and gun loving people. I look forward to seeing Bozeman and hopefully you went to Missoula too!

[@NickJohnson]

I did but Missoula will air later :)

[@PatrickThreewit]

The county I live in borders Ravalli County with the Bitterroots in the middle.

[@brucepierson9941]

I live in Bozangeles. Used to live in Lewistown. The difference between the two places is shocking. Not in a bad way, but Bozeman no longer feels like Montana. Great restaurants though. 😊

[@Mountaintrucker909]

Your shows are awesome Nick. Thank you for making them. Have learned a lot from them.

[@NickJohnson]

I've learned a lot too!

[@JessJoanne]

@@markbeames7852 Hey now.

[@dgr8fulguy]

I bet the NPR Praire folks have ever worked a fence line. If they had, the wind would’ve blown them to Bozeman.

[@NickJohnson]

😂

[@rickn501s]

"You can't replace the sense of community with tourism." Truer words were never spoken. As an example look at Palm Springs, California. Short term rentals have changed neighborhoods into motel rows.

[@racer193wr]

It's doing the same thing here in Nova Scotia... Everyone has an air BnB for rent but no one has that same air BnB for a family to live in. It's killing this place..

[@Joe_J-MT_Boy]

There's a 'glamping' outfit called Paws Up Resort on Hwy 200 between Ovando and Missoula. Their staff can no longer afford to live within a reasonable driving distance, so the resort owners' solution was to buy 2 motels in Seeley Lake and rent them to their employees. Rich folks don't like to wait on themselves. So what does that do to the town of Seeley Lake? Those employees don't spend money in that town like the tourists do, so the town takes a hit economically. What's happening in Montana is not just one thing. Our troubles are primarily due to too many people in the beautiful places. They are loving Montana to death.

[@heather957]

Yeah, that non-profit seems extremely sketchy to me, especially with it being run outside of the US as well. Not okay! Montana deserves better than that.

[@americafirst9144]

NGOs are often Luciferian U-N connected.

[@lisayoung6639]

The first thing I was told when I moved to Montana was. Avoid town and politics looks to be still true 😅

[@Bigheartrolling]

Wow! I’d think that anyone volunteering or working for APR would be telling you about the area’s history at least and know the mission statement. Their “Bad” for not talking with you. Save the Cowboys and jobs, your channel has sparked many conversations around campfires with me and my friends. The man who you interviewed at the auction… he was really well spoken and he should be on the radio. Lol

[@NickJohnson]

I know! He should be the weekly farming roundup host!

[@Farmer_Matt]

He is actually the local auctioneer for selling livestock. He is the lead singer of his own band on the side. Great guy. Nick was luck to bump into him and Anna.

[@sherrydee7880]

As a lifelong Californian, I'd NEVER want to move to another place with the intent to change it to my way of what I think life should be! I'd move there for solitude and solitude alone. I'm sad to hear that so many are moving into places like Montana and attempting to "update" things before they learn the lay of the land and the ways of the people. Bison should not become a tourist attraction at the cost of a family farm...just because someone wants to give them free reign to graze. It's kind of like bringing back the Buffalo Bill Circus of yesteryear with the animals being used instead of the Cowboys and Indians, IMHO. Just another foreign land grab of the rich who are investing in America for fun and profit. Shame on all of them.

[@PatrickThreewit]

Californians love to move to my state, considered to be the freest in the nation, and they have money, building very expensive homes, but we have little available land in our county, but still they come.

[@manfrummt]

You may not think you'd want to change it but you would. Eventually. As you got comfortable and started expecting the same accommodations and government interventions.

[@micosstar]

that's a concern, and i will keep that in mind as someone from california@@manfrummt

[@manfrummt]

@@micosstar Montana is a state of mind. Simplicity. Freedom. Something like the beginnings of our country. I think we all have a desire for that.

[@Czechbound]

*Non Profit Charity* Don't confuse "non profit" with "non revenue". Of course they can lease out their land and earn an income. They just have to spend an equal amount so that there is no net profit. What could they spend the money on ? Maybe very fat salaries for the CEO and trustees and employees. Fat enough that even asking for an interview gets and overpaid PR lady to get you thrown out of the building.

[@allimkhan7540]

0 percent crime rate that sounds wonderful to me you can walk the streets of Montana and fell safe. I am from New York City our crime rate here is so high its unbelievable every day in NYC there is a smash and grab here crime is normal in NYC its so sad.

[@dellingson4833]

Leave NY but don't bring the way you vote with you.

[@ProudUSNAVYVeteran]

Another great video, Nick. I love seeing how others live. I grew up on Cedar St. in San Bernardino (born in Oxnard) and my parents bought property and built a house near Wrightwood, CA in the early 70’s, where we spent some great years until I shipped off to the military. Since then, my wife and I have lived in seven different states and settled north of Bentonville, AR, two miles from the Missouri border. This is a great place to be (minus three months of humidity, yuk) but we are seeing it grow too fast for our liking. Fortunately, the folks I’ve met that are moving here from California and other states are just looking for a better life in a free state.

[@Lifetalk849]

Hey Shellback, Y'all picked a GREAT place to live!!! LOVE NWARK...!!!

[@ProudUSNAVYVeteran]

@@Lifetalk849 absolutely. Especially these cooler early fall temps. Favorite time of the year. Creeks are full. Time to put the kayak in the water.

[@EdwinHernandez-jo6ce]

Arkansas is a free state? 🙄

[@ProudUSNAVYVeteran]

@@EdwinHernandez-jo6ce I’m a free man and I live in a free state. Yes, sir.

[@EdwinHernandez-jo6ce]

@@ProudUSNAVYVeteran you got kkk where you live? By the way, I’m a shellback.

[@californian2344]

The people of Montana, Nebraska, and any other area where that “non-profit” is buying land have every right to be upset and push back as the intentions seem very nefarious. I 100% support the locals wanting to maintain their way of life

[@illuminatidestroyerbear2231]

Non profit just means scam, tax shelter. They shouldn't be allowed.

[@blkcoupequattro]

There was a huge battle over Grand Teton National Park in the late 40's & 50's

[@cpkarkow663]

People do look out for others in small towns, kinda. I lived in a slightly bigger town in Montana and, well people look out for y’a, but they’re also all up in your business, and the gossip is outta control. And seems like ppl want to let you know that they know wtf you’re doing. Like every day someone would say, « hey I saw you walking your dog by the river », or, « I saw you going to the grocery store » or whatever. I could never live in one of these places again. And in winter, unless you play in a darts league, or shoot pool, or go to bible class, there’s nothing to do. There ain’t any skiing or anything in eastern Montana…just cold and wind

[@random.oddities]

I wonder how many degrees of separation between American Prairie Reserve and Blackrock or Bill Gates 🤔

[@jamesgoode9246]

Thanks for including the comments from those two citizens at the end of your report. They helped a lot to explain/summarize the situation.

[@bdawnedon]

the parade of farm equipment is the diametric opposite of street races

[@sookietrueblood-gp4sd]

Heck Nick there's drama everywhere! Don't you look cute with your cowboy get up on😊! Thanks for keeping me informed on places I choose not to go to.

[@martymaclean8762]

Love your videos Nick. So entertaining. I'm from Canada and its so refreshing to see America from your perspective. God bless America!!!

[@albertowen1025]

Nick, I emphasize your situation...especially being a former Montana resident myself. Lewistown being no exception - they are very close-knit, don't like outsiders, and much more. I lived in Kalispell myself, and even I felt like I was being watched. My late wife was from Polson, and she felt the same way, too. Pretty scenery of the town, so yes, the social scene there in Lewistown (at times) can reach a definite negative zero. Happy travels!

[@manfrummt]

Why would you "feel" you were being watched? There are plenty of odd people here in Kalispell and that's pretty common. So maybe you were just too self conscience?

[@gggusc11]

Could the nonprofit’s goal be destroy communities and U.S. farming?

[@faraday6884]

Yes

[@talldude5841]

Great video Nick. That guest you intyerviewed said it all. What a smart person. I have been to Montana a few times and it is one of my favorite states. Screw these big buck outsiders trying to steal their land. Go cowboys!

[@georgemckenzie2525]

No such thing as an "open and fair market" when using Federal Reserve Notes. BlackRock was given( free of charge ) 4 trillion USD in September 2019.

[@leilagomulka5690]

Butte Montana is the hometown of my first ship as an active duty navy chaplain. ♥️♥️♥️

[@Finnv830]

My Aunt was working in a small cafe in Butte when she met her Sailor in the 1950’s. 😊

[@Di-Pi]

The opening music is epic!! So fitting.

[@UnwrittenSpade]

The casinos they opened here in maryland have led to a huge uptick in crime. Also they promised the money generated would go to schools yet none at all has. Remember when casinos were only in Vegas….yeah we need to go back to that! I don’t gamble but when the one opened in maryland I used the promotional free play they gave out and hit on a 5 buck slot for 12,500 bucks! It was like ten grand after tax

[@NickJohnson]

Lucky!

[@user-qc7hr4my7r]

The most impressive thing about driving through Montana besides the view is thinking about the job it took to install all that fencing down almost every road you’re on, lol.

[@NickJohnson]

I know!

[@Blood0ftyrants]

And there is nothing wrong with a place not being diverse. That's truly our greatest strength,being around our own people

[@seanrickers1583]

Great video ! Thank u Nick ! I like how u go to the more rural communities that's great keep that up !

[@malcorub]

31:02 "even the camel hates the American Prairie people" hahahaha

[@sammt200]

Great video man. You always keep it real. This reminds me of the movie "True Grit." Keep it and preserve it the way it is. Tell the NPR to heck off. God bless this community.

[@FischerRestoration]

Great video Nick.. the one well spoken, well informed gentleman that you interviewed reminded me of Ron Howard a little bit.

[@allsmilz7234]

*Thx4share interesting journalism Nick* 👍🇺🇲

[@timgeisinger8479]

Bet some of those investors is named gates and soroes.

[@spartanswerve7575]

That intro music is so soothing and brings me back to watching old movies with my dad as a youngster in the 80’s.

[@papie5151]

Getting a lot of shakedowns lately uh? Pueblo and now Lewiston lol. Living and learning vicariously through your channel.

[@AndreaRovere]

Italian here, i live in Milan: these videos help me understand the amazing and sometime dark reality of rural America.

[@KayFabe87]

I'll gladly take the "drama" of small town Montana vs the drama of any of the bigger cities such as Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, San Francisco, St. Louis, Portland, Seattle, Oakland, etc. Very few riots (or "peaceful protests" as cnn would call them), lower overall violent crime, no open-air drug dens or homeless encampments along the sidewalks, and you can park your car without fearing that someone is simply going to smash your windows to get whatever you happen to have in your car with no repercussions for the criminals. Try having such peace of mind parking your car or simply walking down the street in a place like San Francisco.

[@Finnv830]

Just shows they (American Prairie Reserve) know what they’re doing is wrong or they would have been happy to talk to you. You would think none of these American Prairie people have heard about famine and starvation!! We really need to get rid of Tester!

[@longgowhereto]

44:40 The lady sounds as if she speaks about the new Dutch Sickness - get the farmers off their lands Who has not heard about the protests there? A cheers from Davos I would guess. Who is paying the non profits? George?

[@TheRedDevil_NC]

Such great videos Nick. Hoping you are at a million subscribers soon. Great content with humor and real talk mixed in

[@NickJohnson]

Ok! 🤠

[@shanedogg209]

i was born in Lewistown and left shortly after. this is the first time since leaving ive ever heard it mentioned lol

[@jackcarterog001]

Are you homesick?

[@Angry_Toe]

That office was WAY too nice for a nonprofit. Worked for several over 14 years…. I never saw a fancy nonprofit office.

[@B-Russ]

On to Boze-Angeles and San Fan-ssoula!!!

[@jackcarterog001]

Not diverse? But it’s at least peaceful and you can withdrawal money at the ATM without getting suplexed into paralysis and robbed.

[@fjb4932]

Exactly. Diversity does not make a place great nor safe. Eliminating criminals makes it so. The Legal System is a For Profit outfit. The more crime / the more profit. "Crime is OUR business, and business is so Good ! " ☆

[@davehughesfarm7983]

Thats the beauty..Everyone knows it..

[@montanadeb]

I live here and will fight for this place until my last breath.❤ It’s about love for the people and the land that God gave to us. Btw, the locals won’t even park in front of the APR nor do we stand in front of it during parades.

[@alexander0076969]

The 1950s Western music from old movies is Perfect for this Western series!

[@mikeforce5926]

Great video Nick.I think rich foreigners are buying up the real estate in America.

[@unclerog]

SO ARE THE CHINESE...Its Digustingly SICKENING!!!!!!

[@simaximillian5082]

gettin thrown out of a non-profit. nice. knew I liked your channel. and thanks.

[@keithbalke6352]

“ non-profits” are hidden NWO agents to take ALL. AGENDA 2030…….end of times folks

[@venuslogan5368]

Hi Nick love your videos they are so informative keep the great work

[@upyorkstate5541]

Hi Nick! Always enjoy your videos. It looks a lot like my Upstate NY rural red - voting town; minus the woods and lakes. Just as here, the woke lefties ruin it. I grew up on a farm, and most of my friends and kin are farmers. Always admired Montana, and some of my kin have lived in Texas for half a century. I'm too old to move now, and over 220 years of my kin are buried here or live here. My Dad was a Barber, and I worked in a morgue for a good many years, so the proximity of these businesses and the post office is mighty convenient! The Calvert Hotel looks good to me! Except the lefties that kicked you out, the town folk are talking the same straight facts we talk about. It's sad. We don't have much homelessness here, as the winters are harsh and we either take care of our own or they occasionally crawl off after a good booze or drug bender and freeze to death or get run over somehow. One guy died of gangrene because he didn't take his boots off all winter; they just kept taking his legs a piece at a time until he was gone. I did see one homeless guy last summer in a van behind the Dollar Store. It was the damndest thing I've ever seen! He had a household air conditioner stickin' out of the driver side window! Somebody at the Dollar Store must've helped him out, but he was gone in less than a week. Our laundro - mat isn't bad, but you can't dry hides there. Keep up the good work, may your flask be always full, your ammo stocked, and may Jesus walk beside you in God's country as well as the urban pits of depravity that you must traverse!

[@NickJohnson]

Wow! ❤️❤️❤️🙏

[@wasatch0]

What is woke?

[@holdenc3082]

@@wasatch0 If someone has to define it for you, it means you most likely are.

[@wasatch0]

@@holdenc3082 What is woke?

[@00mteka6]

I was born and raised in Lewistown. I'm glad to have found your channel. Keep up the good content.

[@MayWhite-bz7xl]

This part of Montana is so lovely, just think of the freedom one feels with all that open space. Thank for sharing.

[@4thand133]

Casinos on every corner, isolated suburban homes plopped down on huge plots of land in the middle of nowhere, a farm machinery parade, and 6 months of miserable weather = "the way America should be"? I guess it depends on who you ask.

[@rockymountainhigh9379]

Very impressive downtown for a population of 6,000. Amazing.

[@curleyduck]

Keep fighting for your town and ur farms. Dont let these APR ppl have their way.

[@georgekrpan3181]

Did you notice the film being shown at the theater? The Sound of Freedom.

[@georgekrpan3181]

@OneBigUnion Cheers!

[@HIAHomelessInAmerica]

Thanks 🙏

[@raymondram3870]

Thank. For. You. Videos. The. Are. Great. You. Make. Us. To. Love. America. More.

[@sdb3039]

thanks for another outstanding production

[@johnbersuch1767]

I have relatives there and have heard no complaint's of late.?.? Nice to see you doing a trip to Lewistown.

[@malcorub]

12:17 Casino AND Liquor store... ha! You won't see that in Texas.

[@amzires_art]

It's nice to see that the America I saw in movies as a kid actually exists. Montana and Texas are the first two states I would consider living in if I were to move to the US one day.

[@keithbalke6352]

Hey a very good looking town. 7 months of Siberia could be tough tho. Former Chicago boy living in Phoenix

[@Hschlick84]

When a new video is uploaded by Nick, I watch. Any plans to visit Deer Lodge or Butte?

[@NickJohnson]

Yes I stopped in Butte! Video coming up!

[@BoratWanksta]

​@@NickJohnsonGood you got to Butte, I've wondered about this town myself.

[@Wanderer_in_the_Desert_Winds]

And just think we're complaining about high food costs now, imagine what it will be like with less farming avaliable...

[@Wanderer_in_the_Desert_Winds]

@@yep433 Good luck having millions of people try to do that in urban cities in apartment and condo complexs...

[@frankbrockhoft3923]

That's not macho clothing when it gets cold you'll see what I mean it's working man's clothes.

[@NickJohnson]

To most of us it's macho

[@summernale5963]

3 generations of my family was born in Lewistown Montana. North of town, in the mountains and next to the boyscout camp, laid my grandparents ranch❤

[@sharoncrawford7192]

I agree Nick. You cant go anywhere anymore without drama.

[@unsinnkim3690]

I work as a paramedic in Berlin. Last year I had a conversation in a bar with a nice guy from New Jersey who was working here in Germany. I told him what I do for a living and he just stared at me: "So you're saying you have a real job? And you can work? America needs you, man." We both laughed, but his suggestion and the fact that I've always been more interested in Montana and Wyoming than the big cities gave me the strange idea of ​​emigrating one day and spending my retirement in the US. Maybe I should go visit those places before it's too late. Greetings from here. 🤗

[@Wanderlust598]

Loved driving through Lewistown. All you gotta do is sit down in a McDonald's and relax and listen to hear what goes on with local politics. Seems the consensus there is no to the American Prairie Reserve and no to anymore Californians. It seems that, besides the normal disagreement locals feel with the American Prairie Reserve, they also believe that the American Prairie Reserve has behaved heavy handedly. I would tend to believe that a group trying to buy out easements and property totaling three million acres IS behaving unrealistically and that, regardless of whether it is their intenet or not, displace lots of families that have been there for several generations. It certainly does not help the reserve's case that they are funded by Wall Street and Germaan billionaires. There are nerdy academics who, some years back, said the northern section of the great plains had no natural resources, specifically citing North Dakota, and that the whole of the plains should be turned into a buffalo belt. Shows what they knew when oil boomed in North Dakota in 2008, especially in the western part of the state in the Bakken field. If the ranchers were really abusing the landscape as bad as the Prairie Reserve claims, why does their mission to buy the land that the ranchers own because it is unspoiled? Can't have it both ways. I loved Lewistown, and wish I had the skillset for ranching out there. Haven't been back since 2019, but hope to one day. Drive a little North towards the breaks, especially near Judith Landing, and the Save The Cowboy signs really started to pop up.

[@Moozac]

My son and family live in Lewistown. I went there a few years back for my grandson’s graduation. It was the first week in June and we had 2 feet of snow.

[@aribasmajian18]

That American prairie company was a little strange with that interview. Casinos in montana are everywhere even gas stations. Great video and look at small town montana.