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Summer/Fall 2011

Summer/Fall 2011

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Riding for the Brand

Riding for the Brand

At one time, nearly everybody who lived in Jackson Hole had a livestock brand. Cattle raising was the livelihood of the majority of families through the mid-1940s...

Writer of the Lost Art

Writer of the Lost Art

After a flight halfway around the world, a five-day trek to a remote village, and a month of exploration, the fate of the expedition hung in the balance as Broughton Coburn dangled from a rope high...

Terror in the Tetons

Terror in the Tetons

The stirring started early on the morning of Wednesday, July 21, 2010. It began a few thousand feet below the 13,770-foot summit of the Grand Teton as mountaineers’ headlamps flickered to life...

Fighting for the Whitebark

Fighting for the Whitebark

In a soggy glen, ecologist Nancy Bockino and Grand Teton National Park technician Eric “Doc” Janessen use ropes to scale the uppermost branches of an ancient whitebark pine tree, one that has...

Celebrating Longevity

Celebrating Longevity

Over the course of the next year, several high-profile Jackson Hole businesses and organizations celebrate milestone anniversaries...

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Tetonscapes

Pipes, Drums, and Flying Cannonballs

Pipes, Drums, and Flying Cannonballs

David Macfarlane had a passing interest in his Scottish heritage about fifteen years ago, when he got an itching to toss a caber or two...

iPeaks and iPrairies

iPeaks and iPrairies

About once a week, Dina Mishev receives an e-mail from a friend, or friend of a friend, asking what to do, where to eat, and where to stay on an upcoming Jackson Hole vacation...

Get Up, Stand Up

Get Up, Stand Up

The waters of the Snake River Canyon do not see much traffic in March. Boats sit stacked in local garages while skis still top SUVs. But when Terry Whitaker received his new toy in March 2005, he...

Torpedo the Dam!

Torpedo the Dam!

For the Park Service, the dam added to the park’s already substantial maintenance backlog. “It either needed to be removed or repaired in a way that was going to be very costly,” says Sue...

The Accidental Administrator

The Accidental Administrator

Teton Science Schools’ executive director Jack Shea doesn’t have an office. Instead, he travels the campus, greeting students, teachers, and visitors, keeping an eye on the many facets...

Background Music

Background Music

Tracy Jacobson used her training and experience in accounting and technology while working for a company that manufactured computer hard drives...

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On the Job

Soul Sisters

Soul Sisters

Few teenagers have business cards. Far fewer consider themselves professional performers, like the Miller Sisters did...

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As the Hole Deepens

Roads Scholar

Roads Scholar

Here are some tidbits I gave Roger Ramsey and his ten-year-old daughter Cleo last summer as we sat in a ninety-minute, two-mile bear jam near Sheep-eater Cliff in Yellowstone:...

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Body & Soul

Stone Solid

Stone Solid

Few people in Teton County even know that Jackson Cardinal Flies thrives here. “I did that on purpose,” says Kirk Stone, fifty-eight, owner of the extensive fly-fishing gear operation disguised...

Sneaking Down the Snake

Sneaking Down the Snake

One day early last summer, I tuned into the seven a.m. morning trivia contest on one of the local radio stations: “What famous singer-songwriter was an original, but short-lived, member of the...

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Nightlife

Concerts on the Commons

Concerts on the Commons

It wasn’t that long ago that summertime in Teton Village meant few crowds and even fewer events to draw locals and tourists away from town...

Italian Cuisine (r)Evolution

Italian Cuisine (r)Evolution

America has long had a love affair with Italian cooking. That’s easy to understand. It’s too delicious and comforting and sensual to resist...

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Art Scene

On the Cultural Trail

On the Cultural Trail

Finding a trailhead in a cultural forest requires a good bit more intuition than locating a starting point on a map, though you might want to hold really still when coming face to face with a...

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