Wild Montana Skies

Denver alone wrote it. It came out as a single in November 1983 on RCA, 4:02, produced by Denver and Barney Wyckoff, the first single from It's About Time, and reached 14 on Billboard's Hot Country chart without charting on the Hot 100, Denver's seventh top 20 country single. Harris is billed as a duet partner on the single but credited only for background vocals on the album page. The official John Denver site describes the lyric as following a Montana man born in the Bitterroot Valley and raised by relatives, who becomes a farmer, leaves as a young man, later returns, and is remembered differently by different people.

Western Writers of America included it in its 2010 list of the top 100 Western songs, and it won a Great Falls Tribune readers' poll for best song about Montana in 2013; the New York Daily News ranked it second-worst among songs with wild in the title, behind Michael Martin Murphey's "Wildfire". We found no video, live history or covers, and our upload is presumably the 1983 recording, but we cannot verify that.