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...Ernst contributed a waxy "translation" of Utah's Bryce Canyon. Jane Berlandina's abstractions of the Sierra peaks were appropriately lonely and cool, inappropriately pretty. David Fredenthal had taken a pack trip into the gouged, crumpled high country of Glacier National Park. Dong Kingman had made Grand Teton Mountain burst like a cloud-breathing dragon out of the plain, but the mile-deep solidity of its pine-covered ribs had escaped...
...narrative of the violent Kentuckian's search for his love has the poetic improbability of something that might actually have happened. He finds her and joins her tribe, the Piegans, in the mountain valley of the Teton River, "winding, busy but unhurried, with a mind and time to have a look at things as it went along." Living with the Indians suits Boone. "A man could sit and let time run on while he smoked or cut on a stick with nothing nagging him and the squaws going about their business and the young ones playing, making out that...
...President's order had in effect added Jackson Hole to the Grand Teton National Park. The ranchers opposed this expansion because it would eliminate grazing land, and reduce county tax revenues. And they felt they had been tricked: national parks can be created only by Congressional action; monuments by mere executive order...
...used Jackson Hole for grazing may do so until they die. The procedure in setting up Jackson Hole Monument was the same as that followed in creating other national monuments. Now the time had come to drive the cattle to the summer ranges. On their way to the Grand Teton's slopes the ranchers kept a sharp eye out for them dang Federals. No Government officers showed up; gun play was unnecessary...
Miller also told of plans for a summer trip to the Grand Teton range in northwestern Wyoming between the end of college and the beginning of summer school. The Club will continue its activities in summer school if enough members are interested...