Word: teton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his family donated $6,000,000 to be spent "as soon as possible" in building a large guest lodge and enough cottages to house 5,000 tourists on Jackson Lake, Wyoming, in Grand Teton National Park. The gift completes a conservation project which Rockefeller started 25 years ago, when he began quietly buying land in the Jackson Hole area. In 1949 he turned over to the Government 35,000 acres, which became part of the national park...
...sweeps along, the Missouri gathers the waters of one tributary after another: the Sun, Teton, Judith, Marias, Musselshell, Milk, Yellowstone (fed, in turn, by the Bighorn, Greybull, Shoshone, Tongue and Powder), the Little Missouri, Knife, Heart, Cannonball, Grand, Moreau, Belle Fourche, Cheyenne, Bad, White, Big Sioux, James, Niobrara, Elkhorn, Platte, Little Sioux, Nishnabotna, Kansas (made up of the Republican, Solomon, Saline, Smoky Hill and Blue), the Grand, Chariton, Osage and Gasconade...
Scenes filmed in Grand Teton National Park give the feeling of the northwest's sprawling magnitude, of the raw, vast, lonesome land. And in the performances of Dewey Martin as the moody, savage Boone and Arthur Hunnicutt as the grizzled old fur trapper, The Big Sky captures some of the book's roughhewn poetry and its dark strain of violence...