Editing Missoula, Montana (section)

==Portrayal in media==
{{cquote|text=...{{nbsp}}the world outside, which my brother and I soon discovered was full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the farther one gets from Missoula, Montana.|author=Norman Maclean|source=''A River Runs Through It''{{nnbsp}}<ref name="Maclean 1989">{{cite book |last=Maclean |first=Norman |author-link=Norman Maclean |others=Designed and illustrated by [[Barry Moser]] |title=A River Runs Through It |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=otrz-KkRIBEC&pg=PA11 |date=1989 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-50060-7 |page=11 |lccn=88-38576 |ol=2059308M |oclc=18869665 |quote=Painted on one side of our Sunday school wall were the words, God Is Love. We always assumed that these three words were spoken directly to the four of us in our family and had no reference to the world outside, which my brother and I soon discovered was full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the farther one gets from Missoula, Montana. |access-date=August 28, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904113534/https://books.google.com/books?id=otrz-KkRIBEC&pg=PA11 |archive-date=September 4, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>|bgcolor=#efe|float=right|width=50%}}

Author [[Norman Maclean]] grew up in Missoula and wrote about it in his 1976 autobiographical novella ''[[A River Runs Through It (novel)|A River Runs Through It]]''.<ref name="Maclean 1976">{{cite book |last=Maclean |first=Norman |author-link=Norman Maclean |date=1976 |title=A River Runs Through It and Other Stories |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-50055-3 |oclc=1733412 |lccn=75020895 |ol=5198220M |edition=1st |url=https://archive.org/details/riverrunsthrough00macl }}</ref> The work was adapted into a [[A River Runs Through It (film)|1992 motion picture of the same name]], directed by [[Robert Redford]] and starring [[Brad Pitt]] and [[Craig Sheffer]].

''[[Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town]]'', a 2015 book by [[Jon Krakauer]], focused on a series of sexual assault cases between 2010 and 2012 and the way that the Missoula Police Department, the Missoula County Attorney's Office, and the [[University of Montana]] handled those cases.<ref name="Bazelon 2015">{{cite news |last=Bazelon |first=Emily |date=April 28, 2015 |title=Jon Krakauer's ''Missoula'', About Rape in a College Town |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/books/review/jon-krakauers-missoula-about-rape-in-a-college-town.html |newspaper=The New York Times |page=BR11 |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=August 24, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905122822/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/books/review/jon-krakauers-missoula-about-rape-in-a-college-town.html |archive-date=September 5, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Krakauer 2015">{{cite web |url=http://jonkrakauer.com/books/missoula-hc |title=''Missoula'' |last=Krakauer |first=Jon |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713135502/http://jonkrakauer.com/books/missoula-hc |archive-date=July 13, 2015 |access-date=July 14, 2015}}</ref> Missoula's handling of rape cases sparked a [[United States Department of Justice|Justice Department's]] investigation that found a "pattern of disrespect and indifference toward alleged victims" by Missoula law enforcement, prosecutors, and the university, with scathing blame directed at the Attorney's Office.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Samuels |first1=Jocelyn |last2=Cotter |first2=Michael |date=2014-02-14 |title=The United States' Investigation of the Missoula County Attorney's Office |url=https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/crt/legacy/2014/02/19/missoula_ltr_2-14-14.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150920110911/http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/crt/legacy/2014/02/19/missoula_ltr_2-14-14.pdf |archive-date=2015-09-20 |url-status=live |access-date=2022-06-02 |website=United States Department of Justice}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |title=The Sexual Assault Crisis on American Campuses |url=https://time.com/100542/the-sexual-assault-crisis-on-american-campuses/ |access-date=2022-06-02 |magazine=Time |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Healy |first=Jack |date=2014-04-12 |title=Accusation in Montana of Treating Rape Lightly Stirs Unlikely Public Fight |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/us/accusation-in-montana-of-treating-rape-lightly-stirs-unlikely-public-fight.html |access-date=2022-06-02 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2014-02-15 |title=U.S. Justice officials accuse Montana prosecutor of gender bias in rape cases |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-rape-montana-idUKBREA1E03Z20140215 |access-date=2022-06-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Liebelson |first=Dana |title="She might have had a case if she had been unconscious during the rape" |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/montana-rape-investigation-prosecution/ |access-date=2022-06-02 |website=Mother Jones |language=en-US}}</ref> While being interviewed on [[NPR]] about the book, Krakauer stated, "I don't mean to single out Missoula: Its rape rate is a little less than the national average; I think its problems with dealing with rape are pretty depressingly typical."<ref name="NPR 2015">{{cite web |title=Jon Krakauer Tells A 'Depressingly Typical' Story Of College Town Rapes |url=https://www.npr.org/2015/04/19/400185648/jon-krakauer-tells-a-depressingly-typical-story-of-college-town-rapes |date=April 29, 2015 |work=Weekend Edition Sunday |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151213203349/http://www.npr.org/2015/04/19/400185648/jon-krakauer-tells-a-depressingly-typical-story-of-college-town-rapes |archive-date=December 13, 2015 |url-status=live |publisher=NPR |location=Washington, D.C. |access-date=December 14, 2015}}</ref> Nevertheless, reporting by Krakauer and local and national journalists showed what they characterized as a troubling pattern of authorities mishandling investigations, treating victims with hostility and suspicion, reflexively protecting alleged perpetrators at the expense of victims, declining to prosecute large numbers of credible rape allegations, and creating an atmosphere where victims were unlikely to come forward after an attack.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Krakauer's Missoula and the scrutiny of reporters who cover rape |url=https://www.cjr.org/analysis/the_scrutiny_of_reporters_who_cover_rape.php |access-date=2022-06-02 |website=Columbia Journalism Review |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |date=2015-04-24 |title=Going to Court in Jon Krakauer's "Missoula" |url=http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/going-to-court-in-jon-krakauer-missoula |access-date=2022-06-02 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US}}</ref> Krakauer placed a significant portion of the blame for the mishandling of rape prosecutions on a single Deputy County Attorney, [[Kirsten Pabst]], who now serves as the Missoula County Attorney.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Szpaller |first=Keila |title=Krakauer: Missoula County attorney's actions 'egregious' |url=https://missoulian.com/news/local/krakauer-missoula-county-attorneys-actions-egregious/article_1991c385-feed-5771-a1f9-202ee3ff9465.html |access-date=2023-02-08 |website=missoulian.com |date=April 18, 2015 |language=en}}</ref> The book also charted deep divisions within the town about the allegations, particularly those involving football players from the [[Montana Grizzlies]].

There is a lengthy study of Missoula in the title essay of British writer [[Jonathan Raban]]'s ''Driving Home: An American Journey'': despite writing that on his arrival, "I had the powerful impression that I had driven deep into the Rocky Mountains and somehow arrived in [[Rotherham]] or [[Barnsley]],"<ref name="Raban 2010">{{cite book |last=Raban |first=Jonathan |title=Driving Home: An American Journey |pages=39–45 |date=2010 |publisher=Picador |location=London |isbn=978-0-330-37551-1 |lccn=2010413917 |oclc=559794288 |ol=15541192W}}</ref> and that "the overall effect {{bracket|of the city}} was oddly unsettling; the streets too open for comfort, the town too closed in, inducing mild claustrophobia and agoraphobia at the same time",<ref name="Raban 2010"/> he notes the literary heritage of the city and its reputation as a "kindly town" (evidenced by its being a place where "odds and ends naturally collected and cohered").

Missoula is mentioned as being the closest city to the fictional Hope County in ''[[Far Cry 5]]''. The game's second mission involves the player trying to escape the county to reach Missoula.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Doak |first=Chase |title=5 things 'Far Cry 5' gets right about Montana, and 5 things it gets wrong |url=https://billingsgazette.com/entertainment/5-things-far-cry-5-gets-right-about-montana-and-5-things-it-gets-wrong/article_c79ccebd-5942-5720-a743-5fa89af79cc1.html |access-date=2023-02-08 |website=Billings Gazette |date=April 7, 2018 |language=en}}</ref>

The Harkema Industrial Park in ''[[Project Wingman]]'', a complex of [[Offshore geotechnical engineering|ocean platform]]s, is constructed over a post-Calamity submerged Missoula.