On Tuesday, September 20, 2011, Felix F. Giordano boarded a Montana-bound Amtrak train arriving in Whitefish, Montana two days later. From there, he traveled to Kalispell, Lakeside, Thompson Falls, Libby, Missoula, Helena, Butte, Virginia City, Bozeman, Billings, Crow Agency, Big Timber, Fort Benton, Great Falls, Shelby, Cut Bank, Browning, and East Glacier, finally returning to Whitefish.
He visited many interesting, beautiful, and spiritual sights such as Flathead Lake, the Little Bitterroot River, Kootenai Falls, the Swinging Bridge, Ross Creek Cedars, the Clark Fork River, the Cathedral of Saint Helena, the Museum of the Rockies, Pictograph Cave State Park, the Little Bighorn Battlefield, the Rimrocks, the Crazy Mountains, Gallatin National Forest, Big Timber Creek Falls, the Missouri Breaks, the Flathead, Blackfeet, and Crow Reservations, and Glacier Park just to name a few. All these places have prominence in either current or future novels in the Jim Buchanan Series.
Mr. Giordano met and interviewed county sheriffs, members of the Montana Highway Patrol, a coroner, a police chief, members of a Native American support organization, local citizens, and other visitors.