“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. 
Nonetheless, growing up in Southern California, Dani Demmons had no clue about the actual berry.
Though Angelenos may have no idea, to the residents of four Western states, the huckleberry is an almost semi-sacred facet of life in their lands, a fact that Demmons learned when she went to college in Montana, and then wound up working at Schweitzer Mountain Resort near Sandpoint, Idaho. Now, she’s a huckleberry zealot—like thousands of her fellow residents of Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, the huckleberry heartland. …