Since the debut of the program in May 1991, the Backroads crew has produced 29 half-hour episodes that air regularly on Montana PBS. The series has traveled across the state and visited its unique people and places.
This show takes us along to meet a longtime National Weather Service observer near Roy, Butte musician John "The Yank" Harrington, and an artist from Westby. Then we're off to visit a seasonal waterfall near Big Timber and a Northeast Montana town with but one parking meter. Finally, we tour Fort Benton.
Backroads of Montana - Program Updates Episode Sixteen "Weather, Feathers and Time" (2001) – National Weather Service observer Frank Cimrhakl, Jr. died in 2003.Butte musician John “The Yank” Harrington died in 2004 at age 100.