About

Dana Hart-Stone's inspiration comes from wandering the vast, history-rich countryside of Eastern Montana as a child. Discovering evidence of personal narratives of Americans who settled the West, Hart-Stone found broken pottery, parched leather boots, ripped lace curtains, newspapers tacked onto walls, and rusty barbed wire from early Montana settlers. He became a cultural anthropologist, trying to piece together unknown narratives of the Western experience.

Today, Hart-Stone seeks grounding in authentic Western histories through found, vintage, American imagery, creating …