LIVINGSTON, MONTANA — The American outdoorsman — whether an angler floating through a canyon while fishing for brown trout or a hunter looking for the rubs, fresh scat, and tracks where their game of choice is feeding — is often depicted by legacy media as a disparate collection of people spread all across the country.

Their preference to spend their vacation time in a bear camp, gathered around a campfire, or standing in ice-cold rushing streams is perplexing to the media’s more refined tastes.