My beloved college town has a problem: It’s too popular (Janie Osborne for The New York Times) A residential area in Bozeman. By Sarah Vowell | Special to The New York Times | May 16, 2021, 3:00 p.m. Bozeman, Montana. — “Isn’t it beautiful?” asked the stranger veering toward me on the bridge. By Montana standards, Bozeman Creek is actually a humdrum little drip. I had paused crossing the bridge because a crow had just dumped a gnawed mouse carcass into the water. But hearing the dreamy catch in the woman’s voice, I looked up from the furry portent of death floating downstream and answered, “Sort of?”