MISSOULA — By day, Missoula's Grant Luark is a modern tradesman, specializing in installation of floors made of quintessentially modern material — vinyl.

Guests can mingle with re-enactors, watch demonstrations and stroll through an authentic Civil War encampment.

Luark is one of a small contingent of 19th-century throwbacks in western Montana who belong to the Northern Rockies Blacksmith Association. "There's a bunch of us in the group," says Luark, as he ...

The forge also makes parts for inventors and makes and fixes tools for other blacksmiths. Recently they even "stole work from China," landing a job making parts for an interior designer who had ...

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