Glad to pick this coin up and move it along. My son just graduated from University of Missoula Mt this May. Stories either good or bad about teachers is your request.
One of the hardest teachers that I ever had; required so much work and responsibility from us. I was in the library too much of the time! But he was the teacher that I learned the most from. He made us find the information that he was supposed to be teaching us, frustrating at the time! But he was training us to be thinking, searching, learning, growing adults.
Your second request? to go east, east, east, always east until back to Miles City.
How far is the east from the west? Think about it. That would be a good place to hide something.