Cory Caswell has worked as a hired hand on Wyoming and Montana ranches since he came west as a teenager, not staying in any one place longer than a few months. He talks about his hard, unpredictable but satisfying life as itinerant ranch hand.

Producer Clay Scott visits Montana State Prison, where Native inmates are taking part in a traditional sweat lodge ceremony. As they wait their turn outside the sweat lodge, they talk about life on the inside, and their memories and dreams of life beyond the prison walls.

This week on Mountain West Voices: A visit to the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, where students immerse themselves in Salish language and culture at the Nkwusm School.

The second installment of the story of Joyce Vashro, an Englishwoman who married a U.S. serviceman and came to Montana 70 years ago. She and her baby embarked on the Queen Mary with 2800 other war brides. Like them, she says she hardly knew the husband she was rejoining, and had no idea what awaited her in Montana.

This week on Mountain West Voices: The story of a rural North Carolina kid who took a long and circuitous path to the major leagues - and never lost his passion for the game of baseball.

This week on Mountain West Voices: A visit with poet Tyler Knott Gregson - an unlikely success story from Helena, Montana. He typed his first poem off the top of his head, standing up, on an old typewriter an a junk store. Three years and 900 poems later, he has a following of several hundred thousand people around the world.

This week on Mountain West Voices, a profile of a solo woman hiker on the last stage of the 3100-mile-long Continental Divide Trail.

This week on Mountain West Voices: The first of several stories in the series looking at the "war brides" who came to the United States by the thousands at the end of World War II. Joyce Vashro was one of the young Englishwomen who volunteered on farms during the war. When she met her husband, a homesick American soldier who was stationed near the village where she worked, she had never been out of England and scarcely given a though to the United States. But Joyce and her husband came to Montana almost 70 years ago and raised six children. In this episode, Joyce looks back on the tumultuous war years in England.

This week on Mountain West Voices: Bob Bassett of Butte, Montana talks about a life that took him from the Marine Corps, to the lumber camps of the Northwest, to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Now he is back in Montana, living in a rented room, saving money to get his teeth fixed, and working on his 8th novel.

This week on Mountain West Voices: 94-year-old activist Meyer Chessin talks about his journey from his Yiddish-speaking Bronx neighborhood during the Depression, to a career in plant pathology at the University of Montana.