A Wide, Irrigated, VERY Green Gallatin Valley Runs South from Bozeman To Cottonwood Canyon.
….As You Can See => The Road Is Nicely Paved.

…. “From the town to the mountains across the valley floor must be less than ten miles, and we cross that distance now on dirt roads through rich green high alfalfa ready for cutting, so thick it looks difficult to walk through. The fields sweep outward and slightly upward to the base of the mountains where a much darker green of the pines rises suddenly up. That will be where the DeWeese’s live. Where the light green and the dark green meet.“

Gallatin Gateway, MT. This road is called 19th Street in Bozeman, but is called => Route 19 South once you get out of town.
….Contrary to the Narrator’s “ now on dirt roads .“ , the road in 2002 is nicely Paved, This pavement, starting in Bozeman, continued all the way to Cottonwood Canyon Road where the DeWeese’s live. Pavement continues on Cottonwood Canyon Road two thirds of the way to the DeWeeses’.
EXPLANATION:
….The DeWeese family live 12 miles South of Bozeman, and their address is in the town of Gallatin Gateway, MT. So, it isn’t surprising in 1968 that the DeWeese phone number was not in the Bozeman phone directory. Nor surprising that the operator did not know them.
NEW TOPIC:
….When the Narrator can't get the DeWeese phone number, he gets a “panicky feeling“, and has to calm down with coffee before he can deal with the problem.
… Persons who have lived very, very, stressed lives will sympathize with the panic feeling brought on by a series of too many new challenges. High-stressed persons, like myself, instantly recognize the need for calming effects of a pause, for rest with food & coffee, etc.

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