It was his brother who got him started, back in the 1930s. They lived in the Helena area. Bought papers, got ahold of tobacco, and rolled their own cigarettes. W.Z. "Herf" Ingersoll was 10 years old ...

This week (Aug. 22) in 1949, Life magazine put on its cover Clarence Hailey Long, a working cowboy on a large Texas cattle ranch, and five years later, Leo Burnett, the founder of a Chicago-based ...

HELENA — For many, the images of rugged cowboys smoking cigarettes in the saddle while riding a fence line came to symbolize ‘‘Marlboro Country.'' But in Montana, backdrop for some of those cigarette ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When it came to portraying the rugged western outdoorsman who helped transform a pack of filtered cigarettes into the world’s most popular brand, Marlboro Man Eric Lawson was the ...