"Oh, beautiful, for spacious skies, and amber waves of grain; for purple mountains' majesty above the fruited plain!" Surely Katharine Lee Bates had Montana in mind when she wrote this. From the towering, snowcapped mountains in the west, to the pristine rivers and streams jumping with trout, to the golden plains stretching from one end of the horizon to the other in the east, Montana is truly America at its most beautiful.