MISSOULA – As a child, University of Montana law student Tom Kovari and his family moved from Hungary to the United States to escape communist rule. Growing up he lived in New York and Washington, D.C., and as a young adult all over the East Coast, chasing the American Dream.
Shaped back then by the Western novels of German author Karl May, Kovari knew even as a youngster that the American West, and its spirit of rugged individualism, would one day be his future.
“Once you visit the Mountain West, the East Coast feels like a sardine can,” said Kovari. “I wanted to move somewhere with open spaces.”
His opportunity came with the oil fracking boom in the Bakken fields of North Dakota, which drew workers from all over the country.
For Kovari, though the best way to get a job in the Bakken as a white-collar guy was to become a truck driver. He signed up for driving school, and within a few months he had his commercial license, quit his job at a bank in Falls Church, Virginia, and moved to Sidney, Montana, and started to earn money in the oil field.
Kovari spent long hours driving back and forth hauling supplies to oil wells. Money was great, and he was making a good living. However, things can change quickly in the boom-and- bust cycle of oilfield work. The price of oil dropped, and it was time to take his savings and move farther west.
Kovari ended up purchasing some property near the entrance of the Bob Marshall Wilderness area in Augusta, Montana, when he realized the...
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