Along the Ramparts of the Tetons: The Saga of Jackson Hole, Wyoming

500 Pages·1991·6.39 MB·English

by  Robert B. Betts

Along the Ramparts of the Tetons : The
title:
Saga of Jackson Hole, Wyoming
author: Betts, Robert B.
publisher: University Press of Colorado
isbn10 | asin: 0870811177
print isbn13: 9780870811173
ebook isbn13: 9780585024226
language: English
subject Jackson Hole, Wyoming--History.
publication date: 1978
lcc: F769.J3B47eb
ddc: 978.7/55
subject: Jackson Hole, Wyoming--History.
Along the Ramparts of the Tetons
THE SAGA OF JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING
By Robert B. Betts
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO NIWOT COLORADO
Copyright © 1978 by Robert B. Betts
International Standard Book Numbers 0-87081-113-4 (cloth edition)
and 0-87081-117-7 (paper edition)
Library of Congress Card Catalog Number 77-94083
Printed in the United States of America
Designed by Bruce Campbell
For my wife, Emmie.
Except for her, I would never have gone to
Jackson Hole to visit.
Except for her, I would never have had so
many kids to take to Jackson Hole.
Except for her, I would never have put down some roots
in Jackson Hole and become fascinated
with its past.
Page vii
Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Introduction xiii
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvii
1. Chartres Multiplied by Six 3
2. In the Beginning 3
3. The Firstcomers 21
4. Enter John Colter 31
5. The Colter Case, A Mountain Mystery 37
6. Trapper Trails in Jackson Hole: 1807-1822 51
7. Trapper Trails inJackson Hole: 1822-1840 61
8. Mountain Mavericks 77
9. Interlude 87
10. Runaway Boy with the Indians 95
11. A Man Called Beaver Dick 107
12. Storm Over the Grand Teton 119
13. The Shipwrecked Cavalrymen 127
14. The Bottle Trail 139
15. "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" 147
16. "Mountin Law" 163
17. The Elk Herd 179
18. The Angry Years 193
19. Latter-Day Mavericks 213
20. The Present, A Postscript 225
Notes 233
Bibliography 239
Index 245
Page ix
List of Illustrations
Color plates follow page 6
Sunset from the Snake River overlook
Winter morning along the Snake River
A bull elk
Trumpeter swan and cygnet
Indian paintbrush
Map of Jackson Hole 5
Triceratops 16
Eocene horse skeleton 17
Cody knife 22
Prehistoric bison hunt 24
"Indian Camp on Jackson Lake," by Herbert 27
Collins
Sheepeater Indian family 29
Manuel Lisa 33
Keelboat on the Missouri 35
Section from William Clark's map of 1814 39
"John Colter Visits the Crows," by John Clymer 43
The Colter Stone 46
"Setting Traps for Beaver," by Alfred Jacob 50
Miller
Scenes from a trapper's life 53
"The Trapper," by Charles Deas 54
The Henry Stone 56
John Jacob Astor 58
"Four of a Kind," by Edgar S. Paxton 59
Jedediah Smith 62
"Rendezvous," by Alfred Jacob Miller 63
"Free Trappers," by Charles M. Russell 65
"A Fur Trader in the Council Tepee," by Frederic 67
Remington
"Caravan," by Alfred Jacob Miller 68
"Trappers Going to Pierre's Hole Fight," by 71
Frederic Remington
Captain Bonneville 74
Kit Carson 75
Page x
"I Took Ye for an Injin," by Frederic Remington 78
"Pegleg" Smith 81
Jim Beckwourth 82
"Attack by Crow Indians," by Alfred Jacob 84
Miller
"Jim Bridger in a Suit of Armour," by Alfred 85
Jacob Miller
Joe Meek 86
Jim Bridger 90
Nick Wilson 96
Chief Washakie 97
Nick Wilson runs away from home 98
Nick Wilson and his Indian mother 99
Nick Wilson returns home 101
A Pony Express rider 103
Nick Wilson's real mother and Indian mother 105
Beaver Dick Leigh and family 109
Members of the Hayden Survey of 1872 109
Pages from Beaver Dick Leigh's diary 112
William Henry Jackson photograph of the 118
Tetons
William Henry Jackson working in the Tetons 120
James Stevenson climbing the Grand Teton 121
W. O. Owen 123
Geraldine Lucas atop the Grand Teton 124
Lieutenant Gustavus Cheney Doane 126
Emile Wolff and family 136
President Arthur and friends in Yellowstone 138
Packers for President Arthur's party 141
President Arthur's Indian guides in Jackson Hole143
Indians staging a war dance for President Arthur 145
John Carnes 146
Early Jackson Hole sod-roofed cabin 150
Mowing hay 151
John Sargent 152
New York Times headline, July 27, 1895 154
Constable William Manning 154
Eastern hunter with trophy elk 158
The town of Jackson in 1907 159
T. Lloyd's saloon 160
Louis Joy 161
Cowboys and early gasoline pump 161
Teton Jackson and family 164
Ed Trafton 167