Homesteading with the Elk: A Story of Frontier Life in Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Bertha Chambers Gillette (AUTHOR SIGNED)

Published by Mer-Jons Publishing, Idaho Falls, ID, 1967

About this Item

Mer-Jons Publishing, Idaho Falls, ID. 1967. Hardcover. First Edition. Inscribed by the author on the FFFP. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light bumping to tail; coffee splashes to textblock fore edge along first and last pages with slight penetration. DJ: Very Good +; Price Clipped; chipping to head; splash stains to bottom of front and rear flap folds; spot stains to spine and front board. Rust colored cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine and front board. 175 pp 8vo. This book is a distillation of frontier life in the historic Jackson Hole country of Wyoming. The book begins with the homesteading of land and the building of a home in the shadows of the mighty Tetons on Flat Creek. It continues down through the development of the elk refuge in Jackson Hole from the start when the Government purchased 1,760 acres of land to the present time when the refuge encompasses some 20,030 acres. The story tells of the ranchers & mountain men alike who battle the massive elk herds, the long hard winters, and the oncoming of civilization to the country. The book is a recounting of the breadth and depth of the Jackson Hole country, told in a manner that will keep you from putting this book down until you have read it in its entirety. A clean very presentable copy in a brodart mylar jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Homesteading with the Elk: A Story of Frontier Life in Jackson Hole, Wyoming
• Publisher: Mer-Jons Publishing, Idaho Falls, ID
• Publication Date: 1967
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good +
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biographies
  • Americana
  • Regional Histories