Dennis Gaub, a professional writer and journalist, gained a quarter-century of experience writing for newspapers in Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and Michigan. The largest segment of his career came as a reporter for his hometown newspaper, the largest in Montana, the Billings, Gazette, where he wrote for 20 years on three separate occasions, starting as a part-time sportswriter during his senior year in high school. His assignments as a cub reporter included high school football, basketball and track meets throughout the Gazette’s vast circulation area. His mentor was Norm Clarke, the Gazette’s sports editor who went on to fame as an Associated Press writer in Cincinnati and San Diego before writing for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver and the Las Vegas Review-Journal Gaub received his degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in 1974 and was hired by the Grand Junction, Colorado, Daily Sentinel as a police and City Hall reporter. He shifted to sports and covered high school sports, both local and in the Sentinel’s Western Colorado circulation area, plus college sports that Mesa College competed in. Hired by the Billings Gazette, Gaub returned to Montana in 1976 and wrote for the newspaper until the end of 1978 when left Billings for about three years. His articles covered a broad range of sports: high school, professional (minor league) hockey and baseball, and colleges (Eastern Montana College, Rocky Mountain College, Montana State University). He also wrote about the recreational sports he took part in, including downhill and cross-country skiing and bicycle touring. Gaub was sports editor of a Wyoming newspaper and editor of a weekly newspaper in Michigan before he returned to Billings in 1981. He was a Gazette sportswriter for four years before he became the paper’s City Hall reporter. He won several regional reporting awards and was part of the Gazette’s team that was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for its world-class coverage of the 1988 Yellowstone National Park fires. He earned his MBA from the University of Montana in 1992. After helping to start a free alternative weekly newspaper, the Billings Outpost, Gaub left the newspaper industry and finished his professional career in the tech realm. He worked in bank operations for Wells Fargo and then worked a dozen years in sales support roles in the software industry. He was a proposal writer for a Bozeman, Montana, startup software company, RightNow Technologies, and a proposal manager for another software company, Oracle, after it acquired RightNow. He retired from the corporate world in 2017 and returned to creative writing. Gaub self-published his first book, Win ’Em All: Little Laurel Wins Montana’s Biggest Basketball Trophy, in 2016. This book tells the true Hoosiers-like story of a high school near Billings, Laurel, Montana, that defeated all comers, including schools with larger enrollments and taller players, in the 1968-69 school year and swept to the state basketball championship. The story was meaningful to Gaub because 1969 was when he graduated from a neighboring rival high school. Also, while working for the Billings Gazette as a part time sportswriter during his senior year in high school, he helped cover the climactic state tournament depicted in the book. Widowed in 2019 when his wife of almost 20 years, Carolyn, died, Gaub remarried two years later. Together, he and his wife, Cathie, have eight adult children and 18 grandchildren. They divide their time between Billings and Salt Lake City, where Cathie grew up, was educated and spent more than two decades as a psychiatric nurse before retiring. They travel throughout the West in a small motor home, tend a community-garden plot and relish life in the Treasure State.