Huckleberry Everything: It’s the Season for the Beloved, Stubbornly Wild Berry of the Mountain West

The tiny, dark-blue berry is beloved throughout its home region. Courtesy of Schweitzer Mountain Resort

“I’m your huckleberry.”

One of American cinema’s most famous lines is probably better known than the unassuming little mountain fruit it rests upon. Val Kilmer’s declaration in “Tombstone”—which his character Doc Holliday apparently did indeed say to Johnny Ringo at the OK Corral in October 1881—yields 4.2 million results in a Google search.