America’s dive bars are disappearing. Montana didn’t get the memo

The state boasts cozy venues featuring buffalo mounts, barbecue and bras on the wall - but the mark of a great bar is always the people

It's been over two decades now, but as I remember it: the floor was sticky with peanut shells and beer.

I could feel a crunch underfoot amid the din of garbled conversation as my young, righteous girlfriends and I made our way to a wobbly table at the Haufbrau in Bozeman, Montana.