Gretchen Minton, English professor and Shakespearean expert at Montana State University, describes a long, and perhaps surprising, love affair in a Provost’s Lecture entitled “Shakespeare’s Last Best Place.” Even illiterate mountain man Jim Bridger loved Shakespeare so much that he hired people to tell him Shakespeare’s stories at campfires as he broke trails in early-day Montana. So began an evolving relationship between the Bard and the Big Sky state, which continues today in Minton’s latest project.

Recorded on March 5, 2019 at the Museum of the Rockies.