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PHOTOS: 2024 Northwest Montana Fair

CASEY KREIDER | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 1 year, 8 months AGO
by CASEY KREIDER
STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Casey Kreider is a staff photographer for the Daily Inter Lake. His work documents news, sports, wildlife, landscapes and everyday life across Northwest Montana through visual storytelling. Kreider’s keen eye captures major sporting events, community moments, and the natural beauty that defines the region. He is a graduate of Penn State University and previously worked as a photographer for Lancaster Newspapers in Pennsylvania. In 2024, he received the Montana Newspaper Association’s Mel Ruder Photograph of the Year award. IMPACT: Kreider's work brings readers closer to the people, places and moments that shape life in Northwest Montana through powerful visual journalism. | August 18, 2024 12:00 AM

Images from the 2024 Northwest Montana Fair and Rodeo in Kalispell.

    A girl reaches into a pen to pet a two-week-old piglet from Teagen Flint's Wapiti Show Pigs inside the Trade Center at the Northwest Montana Fair on Tuesday, Aug. 13. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Two-week-old piglets from Teagen Flint's Wapiti Show Pigs play inside a pen in the Trade Center at the Northwest Montana Fair on Tuesday, Aug. 13. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    A competitor holds her goat in her arms during goat showmanship at the Northwest Montana Fair on Thursday, Aug. 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Competitors walk their goats around the arena during senior goat showmanship at the Northwest Montana Fair on Thursday, Aug. 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Competitors line up their goats during senior goat showmanship at the Northwest Montana Fair on Thursday, Aug. 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Carly Tranel shows her steer during senior beef cattle showmanship at the Northwest Montana Fair on Wednesday, Aug. 14. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Beau Siderius speaks with judge Sierra Myers during senior beef cattle showmanship at the Northwest Montana Fair on Wednesday, Aug. 14. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Mary Owens and other competitors work to position their sheep during senior sheep showmanship at the Northwest Montana Fair on Tuesday, Aug. 13. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Laila Sargeant shakes the hand of judge Sierra Myers after Myers awarded her grand champion during senior sheep showmanship at the Northwest Montana Fair on Tuesday, Aug. 13. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Brady Boll shows her steer during senior beef cattle showmanship at the Northwest Montana Fair on Wednesday, Aug. 14. Boll won grand champion in her division. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Rheama Clark holds a chick from one of her family's first-place winning chickens as the mother hen looks on inquisitively inside the small animal barn at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Friday, Aug. 16. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Dacia Rutske checks out rows of dahlias for judging at the dahlia show at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Friday, Aug. 16. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Mike Valler, head judge with the Montana Dahlia Society, judges dahlias in the dahlia show at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Friday, Aug. 16. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Dahlias lined up for judging at the dahlia show at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Friday, Aug. 16. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Mike Valler, head judge with the Montana Dahlia Society, judges dahlias in the dahlia show at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Friday, Aug. 16. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Dahlias lined up for judging at the dahlia show at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Friday, Aug. 16. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Maizy and Curtis Kimmet try to reach the muzzle of a giant draft horse named Huckleberry inside the draft horse barn at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Friday, Aug. 16. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Riders are suspended at sunset on the Vertigo carnival ride at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Thursday, Aug. 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Riders swing at sunset on the Vertigo carnival ride at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Thursday, Aug. 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Riders enjoy the Frenzy ride at the carnival at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Thursday, Aug. 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Attendees play Water Gun Fun! at the carnival at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Thursday, Aug. 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    The Area 51 ride glows at dusk at the carnival at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Thursday, Aug. 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Brady Boll gives her steer a kiss after winning grand champion in senior beef cattle showmanship at the Northwest Montana Fair on Wednesday, Aug. 14. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Laila Sargeant gives her sheep a kiss before the start of senior sheep showmanship at the Northwest Montana Fair on Tuesday, Aug. 13. Sargeant won grand champion in her division. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Alonzo Skunkcap, of Browning, and Nolan Conway, of Cut Bank, rope their steer during team roping as the sun shines through a light rain during the PRCA Rodeo at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Thursday, Aug. 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Bailey Bench, from Oakley, Idaho, gets bucked off his horse Gambler during saddle bronc riding at the PRCA Rodeo at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Thursday, Aug. 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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    Jesse Medearis, from Belgrade, ropes his calf during tie down roping at the PRCA Rodeo at the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo on Thursday, Aug. 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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