chronicle
JACKSON’S HOLE, WYOMING
historical society & museum
VOLUME XXXII NO. 2
SUMMER 2012
Lower Bar BC Ranch
Hosts Slim Lawrence Barbecue
by Liz Jacobson
Feeding cattle at the Hansen ranch, formerly the
Lower Bar BC BC.0284
The sixteenth annual Slim Lawrence
Barbecue will be hosted by the Lower Bar
BC Ranch on August 19, 2012, keeping
with the tradition of having the barbecue
on an historic ranch in the valley every
summer. As with all past barbecue sites,
the Lower Bar BC has a rich history.
In the early 1900s, dude ranching
began in Jackson Hole. The Bar BC was
the second dude ranch in Jackson Hole
after the JY Ranch. Established by
Struthers Burt and Dr. Horace Carncross
in 1912, they each led a claim on 160
acres through the Homestead Act of
1862, and then added 160-acre desert
entries to increase the acreage of the Bar
BC to 640. The ranch was located along
the west side of the Snake River and
north of Cottonwood Creek just below
the Tetons. Burt and Carncross intended
to expand to cattle ranching, relegating
the dude business to secondary activity,
but never achieved this aim. Burt and
Carncross bought the John and Mary
Anderson homestead on the Gros Ventre
River in 1916 intending to raise hay for
nearly 100 head of saddle horses. Calling
it the Lower Bar BC, they began raising
cattle.
The history of the Lower Bar BC and
Spring Gulch ranching is deeply tied to
the Hansen and Mead families who have
been ranching in Spring Gulch for four
generations. It all started with Peter
Christofferson Hansen homesteading in
the valley in the late 1890s in Wilson,
just south of what is now Teton Village.
For two years, Peter and his wife Sylvia
brought cattle over Teton Pass to their
homestead every summer from their
winter home in Idaho and sold them.
This is how Peter rst became known
in Jackson Hole as a cattle dealer.
Later, they bought a ranch in Zenith, a
settlement that was about a mile west of
the present Jackson Hole Golf and Tennis
Club, and they lived there until 1916.
The Hansens began their Spring Gulch
ranch in 1918 when they purchased land
from William Redmond. Redmond was
an early homesteader in Spring Gulch in
the 1890s. Redmond sold the other part
of his holdings to Bert Charter.
More than one property changed
hands. Struthers Burt sold his interest
in the Bar BC to his second partner, Irv
Corse in 1937. Corse continued to operate
the dude ranch and the cattle ranch into
the 1940s. In 1945, Corse sold the Lower
Bar BC to his neighbor, Cliff Hansen.
Cliff was Peter and Sylvia Hansen’s
third child, and later became Wyoming
governor and a U.S. Senator.
In October 2004, Ross Perot Jr.
of Hillwood development company
purchased the historic 1,374-acre Lower
Bar BC Ranch from Brad, Matt, and
Muffy Mead, children of Cliff and Martha
Hansen’s daughter Mary Mead. Mary died
in a riding accident in 1996. Approximate-
ly 700 acres of the property was divided
into 35- to 50-acre ranch homesites.
Hillwood has preserved some of
the Lower Bar BC’s past for the sake
of today’s residents. In 2006, Perot
agreed to a conservation easement on
507 acres of pasture land that would
limit development to four homes. The
conservation easement represents a
signicant contribution towards land
protection not only for its scenic beauty
and importance to wildlife, but also for
its historical value, supporting cattle
ranching, a Jackson Hole lifestyle that
is nearly absent in today’s valley. One
of the old cabins was reconstructed and
restored, and is located at the entrance
of the Lower Bar BC for mail delivery
and pickup. Another original building,
a white ranch house, was moved off the
Bar BC to the Mead Ranch.
The Butch Cassidy Connection
According to Bert Charter’s son Boyd,
Bert was a member of the famous Hole
in the Wall Gang for a time with Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Bert’s
daughter, Anne Goddard Charter, wrote
that her dad’s rst job with the gang was
holding the getaway horses when they
would rob a train or bank.
Boyd is convinced that Butch Cassidy
visited the Charter’s Spring Gulch
ranch in the summer of 1925 when he
was seventeen. A man driving a Model
T Ford pulled in, and Bert greeted him
like a long-lost friend. Boyd thought he
heard the man say his name was Phillips.
The man camped at their ranch for an
extended stay over the summer. After
the stranger departed, Boyd overheard a
conversation between his father and Will
Simpson, prosecuting attorney at Butch
Cassidy’s 1894 trial. Bert told Simpson,
a lawyer in Jackson, that Butch Cassidy
had just spent a long visit at the ranch.
When the Charters decided to pull up
stakes and move to Montana in 1947,
Peter Hansen bought the Charter place.
Early hay stacker at the Lower Bar BC Ranch
1958.0273.001
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JACKSON HOLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM CHRONICLE
Organizational News
Staff and Board of the
J
ackSon hole hiStorical Society
and MuSeuM
Staff
Clayton Caden, Visitor Services
Jean Hansen, Museum Manager
Liz Jacobson, Interim Co-Director
Barbara Knobe, Visitor Services
Susan McCracken, Visitor Services
Karen Reinhart, Curator of
Education and Outreach
Brenda Roberts, Interim Co-Director
Chris Staron, Visitor Services
Shannon Sullivan, Curator of
Collections
Board of Directors
Jackie Montgomery, President
Steve Ashley, Vice-President
Jim Rooks, Secretary
Laurent Roux, Treasurer
Jim Luebbers, Past President
Marion Buchenroth
Kathi Davis
Earle Dornan
Rudy Sanford
Chris Sandvig
Stan Trachtenberg
Matt Turner
Advisory Council
Diana and Jim Brown
Bob Dornan
Lynn Friess
Frank Johnson
Pete and Jeanine Karns
Clarene Law
Marilynn Mullikin
Nancy and Dick Riddle
John Turner
Mike Wardell
Mission Statement
Preserving and sharing the
heritage of Jackson Hole.
The Jackson Hole Historical Society
and Museum Chronicle is published
quarterly for members and friends of
the Jackson Hole Historical Society
and Museum.
P. O. Box 1005
Jackson, Wyoming 83001
(307) 733-2414 or 733-9605,
Fax: (307) 734-8171
e-mail: info@jacksonholehistory.org
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Two new walking tour guides have
joined the JHHSM volunteer roster. Lyle
Gestal and Dina Mishev guide some of the
free summer tours of historic downtown
Jackson. The tours are offered on
Tuesdays and Thursday at 10:30 a.m. and
Saturdays
at 2:00 p.m.
Tours last
an hour and
meet at the
center of
the Town Square.
Lyle moved to Jackson three years
ago after studying Anthropology with
a minor in Native American Studies at
the University of Montana. She and her
sister Jesse own a unique store called
the Four Daughters (their other two
sisters are Morgan and Dana). The store
features antiques, local artists’ creations,
and a lot of other stuff that Lyle calls
dust collectors. The store is located on
the south side of the Town Square across
from the Jackson Bootlegger.
Lyle loves to mountain bike, hike, swim,
paddle board, read, and downhill ski. She
became interested in becoming a walking
tour guide after talking with Karen
Reinhart, Curator of Education and
Outreach, who coordinates the program.
Lyle believes history is important to
keep cultures alive, to remember where
we came from and how we got here, and
she enjoys sharing the interesting history
of Jackson Hole.
Dina grew up in Washington D.C. and
says she moved to Jackson fteen years
ago because Harrison Ford lives here and
she wanted
to learn how
to ski. She
now skis
about one
hundred days
a season, primarily in the back-country.
In fact, she is in the Guinness Book of
World Records as skiing the most vertical
uphill distance by a woman in a twenty-
four hour period!
Although Dina studied math,
computer programming and statistics in
college, she gravitated towards writing.
She is currently the editor-in-chief of the
bi-annual Jackson Hole Magazine. She
has always been fascinated with history,
and published a book called Wyoming
Curiosities in 2007. She shares some of
her “curiosities” on her walking tours, an
example being her calculation that the
amount of dirt and rock that came down
with the Gros Ventre Slide would cover
Washington DC in six inches of debris.
New Walking Tour Guides
Join Volunteer Roster
Fern Nelson, a dear friend and
supporter of the Jackson Hole
Historical Society and Museum,
passed away on May 10, 2012 at the
age of 101. Her family established
a memorial at the Jackson Hole
Historical Society and Museum as
a tribute to her, and donations may
still be made. We gratefully thank the
following donors who gave in memory
of Fern:
Doris Budge
Calvin and Virginia Blair
John and Joanne Stockert
Nelson Engineering
Archie Jurich
Ravoe Nelson Christensen
Margie Kudar
Liz and Bruce Putnam
Marjorie Ryan
Mickey and Domilila Yamashiro
Mary Updike
Wilda Dockery
Fern’s family shared that Fern
came to the valley in 1911 as a
babe in arms. She spent most of
the remainder of her life here. Fern
researched and wrote about this
valley. She received a 1972 Wyoming
State Historical Society Award for her
series of articles “This Was Jackson’s
Hole.”
Fern Nelson Memorialized
Photo by Vance Jacobs
JACKSON HOLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM CHRONICLE
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Museum Receives $3,000 Grant
from the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole
The JHHSM is grateful to the
Community Foundation of Jackson
Hole for selecting us to receive a $3,000
grant through their Competitive Grants
Program, with the funds being restricted
to Youth Education Programs. This
funding will help with the 250% increase
in youth education programs planned.
Collections Corner
by Shannon Sullivan
Margaret Crook came from Preston,
England and quickly settled in the
valley after marrying Hannes Harthoorn
in 1917. According to their wedding
announcement, Hannes “is counted as
one of the thrifty, industrious citizens of
the valley, and we feel sure the lady of his
choice is possessed of similar qualities.” A
noted talent in the community as a weaver,
and particularly a singer, Margaret wrote
the words and music for the dedication of
Grand Teton National Park in 1929.
“I love your beautiful mountains, your
valleys, too. Your peaks are grand and noble,
They mean so much to me.”
Margaret and her husband lived on
Mormon Row until they sold out to the
Park in 1952.
Museum Trophy Mounts Still Hold Records:
Hoback Buck on Tour
You may not be aware that your history
museum holds three amazing record trophy
mounts. The Shiras or “Wyoming Moose”
is still the world record, and the typical
American elk is the Wyoming record as
well as the No. 3 in the world. Both are on
display in the current exhibition Playing
Hard: Labor and Leisure in Jackson Hole.
The third mount is the No. 3 Boone and
Crockett World Record Mule Deer and
holds the Wyoming state record. It is
currently on loan.
Known as the Hoback Buck, this deer
has an impressive history. It was taken by
an unknown hunter for meat in the 1920s
in the Hoback Canyon. A ranch hand
brought the antlers to Jackson sometime
later, and they were on display for many
years in Mike Meets Saloon until the mid-
1950s when it closed. The antlers then
went to the Handie Gift Shop where they
had key rings displayed on the tines.
Lewis Ray had a taxidermy shop in
Jackson called Ray’s Taxidermy. Being
in the business, Ray had an inkling about
the potential importance of the rack he
saw in the window of the gift shop. At the
time Ray only had $5.00 in his pocket, and
the store clerk sold the antlers to Ray for
what he had on him. Ray was an ofcial
measurer for Boone and Crockett, and after
measuring the antlers, realized they were
the pending new record mule deer. Ray
mounted the antlers in his shop, and later
sold them to the Jackson Hole Museum
for $450.00. Slim Lawrence, the museum’s
founder, wisely wanted to preserve such a
specimen for future generations.
In 1960, the Boone and Crockett
Club sent a letter to Slim Lawrence at
the museum, inviting him to ship the
antlers to the North American Big Game
Competition in New York City. They
were shipped to the American Museum
of Natural History in New York for a
panel of judges to review and measure.
The antlers were declared the new world
record typical mule deer, holding that
rank until 1972.
The Hoback Buck was “discovered”
by Roger Selner at the museum early
this summer, and he conrmed that it
still holds the No. 3 world record mule
deer and Wyoming record classications.
Selner is an ofcial measurer for the Boone
and Crockett Club, Pope and Young Club
(archery), the Long Hunter Club (black
powder), and the North American Shed
Antler Club. He has been collecting record
books, researching records, and studying
antlers for over fty years. Selner became
involved in the outdoor shows
era that started in the 1980s.
He has traveled the show circuit
throughout North American for
twenty-seven years, doing over
500 shows in over 200 different
cities, and driving nearly two
million miles.
Selner is the show manager for
the Eastmans’ Trophy Deer Tour,
and eld editor for Eastmans’
Hunting Journals. In exchange
for remounting the Hoback
Buck, he negotiated a loan of the
Hoback Buck from the history
museum for the Eastmans’ 2013 Deer
Tour. It will be touring the West with
other record deer until next May. The
newly remounted Hoback Buck will be
on display at Sportsman’s Warehouse in
Casper, Wyoming from August 23 – 26,
2012.
Thank you to Roger Selner for contributing
to this article.
this worthy project to fruition.”
Save the date for the second big-screen
showing of The Stagecoach Bar: An
American Crossroads. The premiere at the
Center for the Arts sold
out early, so if you didn’t
get to see it or want to see
it again, put Saturday,
September 8th on your
calendar. The Grand
Teton Music Festival is
generously donating Walk
Festival Hall for the 8:00
p.m. screening during
the Fall Arts Festival.
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JACKSON HOLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM CHRONICLE
There’s a new cowboy in town! Will
you help name the new bronze sculpture
located in front of the Jackson Hole
Historical Society and Museum at 225
North Cache?
The sculpture is of a turn of the
century cowboy, created and donated by
western history sculptor Georgia Bunn for
the Jackson Hole Historical Society and
Museum. He is already attracting a lot of
attention as he leans on a pole under the
museum awning, gazing north. Becoming
a star of many a photograph, he doesn’t
seem to mind posing.
Pick up an entry form for the naming
contest at the museum, and submit by
August 9th. The winner will receive two
free tickets to the Slim Lawrence Barbecue
to be held August 19 at the Lower Bar BC
Ranch.
Museum’s New Bronze
Cowboy Needs a Name
About the Artist
Georgia Bunn
“My love of the historical West is what
motivates me to sculpt, and that led me
to the Jackson Hole Historical Society
and Museum,” Bunn explains. “They had
a vision, and with the dedicated patrons
who appreciate public art, the rst in a
series of life-sized bronzes was installed,”
she said. The sculpture was cast, bronzed
and installed by the Eagle Bronze Foundry
and Gallery in Lander, Wyoming, owned
by Monte Paddleford.
Two other sculptures are in the
works. The joint concept between Bunn,
the Museum board and staff, and the
exhibition designers was to bring people
from Jackson Hole’s rich and colorful
history, sculpt them life-sized in bronze,
let them walk off the pages of the history
book, and be placed where they can be
appreciated by all who pass by.
The second of her sculptures to be
bronzed and presented is a young Shoshone
woman, Jenny Leigh, the namesake of
Jenny Lake. The nal and third of the
Second Showing of Stagecoach Bar Documentary Sept. 8
June Premiere Spectacular Success
outdoor life-sized bronze series will be
Jenny Leigh’s mountain man husband,
trapper Beaver Dick Leigh. Both are
nished in clay and being transported to
the Eagle Bronze Foundry.
“It is an honor, and a great privilege,
to be the sculptor and depict in bronze
people who made Jackson Hole so
historically signicant to the West,” said
Bunn. “Working with the museum has
been incredibly rewarding. Their staff
and board are unbelievably dedicated.”
“I’m anxious to get Jenny and her
husband placed where people can come
and ‘meet them’. The museum is making
history tangible, palpable, viewable...
and three dimensional. Those of us who
sculpt gurative realism want to portray
the signicance of our historical past.
It’s been a joy to work with the historical
archives provided by the museum,” Bunn
said.
She continues, “I am privileged to have
been tutored by the ‘cream of the crop’
in Western sculpting. Cowboy Artists of
America, John Coleman and Mehl Lawson,
were instructors at workshops I attended,
sponsored by the Scottsdale Artist School
in Arizona. They were incredibly tough
critics, but were supportive in bringing
my sculpting to a level worthy of Western
Figurative Realism. I’m deeply indebted
to them for taking the time to teach not
only the techniques of sculpting, but the
importance of capturing the heart and
soul of the West in bronze.”
Tickets are currently available at the museum
at 225 North Cache or at the Stagecoach Bar
in Wilson. Beginning in August, check the
museum’s web site at www.jacksonholehistory.
org or the Stagecoach Bar lm’s web site at
www.thestagecoachbarlm.com for informa-
tion about additional ticket outlets and
discounts at cooperating Teton Village
businesses for that evening. Hope to see
you there!
DVDs will be available mid-August at
the museum store located at 225 N. Cache.
The cost is $15 (including tax, but not
shipping & handling). The DVD includes
the lm as well as entertaining extras
like Jennifer Tennican’s Wyoming Short
Film Contest Winner (2011) – Highway 22
Revisited, outtakes, various shorts, a slide
show and an audio commentary track
with the lmmaker, editor and co-writer.
Those who pre-ordered DVDs will be
contacted when the DVDs arrive.
Good food, plenty of drinks, live music, and dancing enhanced the
smashing premiere of The Stagecoach Bar: An American Crossroads
on June 27 at the Center for the Arts. A sold-out house of over 500
enjoyed the documentary lm produced by Jennifer Tennican of
JenTen Productions for the Jackson Hole Historical Society and
Museum. The lm was made possible by a multitude of donors and
sponsors.
“I was overwhelmed by the response to the lm premiere. It
was an incredible night made possible by the generous support of
over 200 individuals, sponsors, family foundations and granting
organizations.” said Tennican. “Congratulations to us all for bringing
Jennifer Tennican at the premiere.
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The Elk
For thousands of years, elk herds
migrated through Jackson Hole on their
way to winter ranges in the Red Desert,
Green River drainage, Big Horn Basin
and Teton Valley. As settlements in
these areas expanded in the late 1800s,
the traditional elk feeding grounds
were replaced with cultivated elds and
pastures. Their migration routes were
disrupted by wire fences and wholesale
slaughter from indiscriminant
hunting. Hemmed in on all
sides, the elk gradually ceased
to migrate beyond Jackson
Hole.
Since there were no
permanent settlers in Jackson
Hole until 1883, the elk
accumulated in the natural
meadows along the rivers
and streams north of present
day Jackson and in South
Park where wild hay was in
abundance. When the snow
wasn’t too deep, natural food
supported the herds that ranged in size
from 15,000-50,000 animals between
1887 and 1911. But, even in below
average snow years, many elk died during
the winter, especially older animals and
calves. In harsh winters, elk died in huge
numbers. Following several mild winters,
the herd reached an estimated 50,000
animals before the harsh winter of 1889-
1890. That winter, it was reported that
as many as 20,000 elk died.
After three hard winters between 1909
and 1911 there were less than 10,000
elk left in Jackson Hole. The winter of
1909 was particularly devastating. It
began with heavy snow that drove more
than the usual number of elk out of the
high country. The herd was estimated
to be about 20,000. Wet snow turned to
rain which then froze making it nearly
impossible for the elk to reach food. The
elk invaded ranches, haystacks and the
not yet incorporated town of Jackson.
They roamed through the streets and
residents’ yards. They died everywhere.
One resident noted in the spring of 1909
that it was possible to walk at least two
miles stepping on elk carcasses without
ever putting a foot on the ground.
Local Jackson Hole settlers witnessing
the carnage in 1909 collected $600
($15,000 in today’s dollars) to buy hay.
It was the rst community effort to feed
the elk and ultimately led to the creation
of the National Elk Refuge.
Stephen Nelson Leek
“Father of the Elk”
Although it was D.C. Nowlin,
Wyoming’s second appointed game
warden, who rst suggested a permanent
Elk Refuge in 1906, the efforts of S.N.
Leek are widely credited with the actual
establishment of the Elk Refuge in
1912.
Stephen Leek was born in 1858
in Ontario, Canada. He arrived in
Jackson in 1885 and joined about 40
other pioneers who were already in the
Jackson Hole area at the time. Leek set
up a homestead in South Park in 1891
and married “Etta” Wilson, daughter
of Wilson founder “Uncle Nick” Wilson.
Leek was a friend of “Beaver Dick”
Leigh, and he became a hunting guide
through that relationship. One of Leek’s
clients was George Eastman, founder of
Eastman Kodak, who gave Leek a Kodak
view camera during one of Eastman’s
many hunting trips in the valley.
Leek took extensive glass-plate photos
of starving and dead elk primarily in the
South Park area. He incorporated these
images into articles which he submitted
to newspapers and magazines to publicize
the plight of the valley’s elk. He also
embarked on a lecture series around the
country to personally emphasize the need
for action. He was billed “The Father
of the Elk” on the Orpheum
Circuit, a chain of vaudeville and
movie theaters where he lectured.
Leek was also a Wyoming State
Representative in 1909 which
provided an additional platform
to bring attention to the elk
situation.
Leek’s writings, photographs
and lectures depicting the demise
of Jackson Hole elk attracted
state and national sympathy and
resulted in support from the State
of Wyoming, the U.S. Congress
and other conservation groups
to feed the elk and establish the
National Elk Refuge.
Organized Feeding, Government
Aid and Involvement
Beginning with the rst $600 donated
for hay to feed the elk, ve districts
were established in Jackson Hole with a
responsible rancher in charge of each to
feed the elk. The settlers also petitioned
the State of Wyoming for additional
funds which were granted in 1910 in the
amount of $5,000. In the meantime, D.C.
Nowlin, game warden, bought about 400
tons of hay that were distributed to the
ve districts stretching 10 miles north of
Jackson and 10 miles south.
The next two winters were also severe.
Settlers recounted that one night in
March of 1910 there was about 18 inches
of snow on the ground in the evening and
by morning the snow was six feet deep.
While feeding continued, the available
hay was insufcient for the size of the
herd.
On February 17, 1911, the Wyoming
Legislature passed a Memorial requesting
the U.S. Congress to cooperate with the
State in preserving the elk. On March
4, 1911 Congress appropriated $20,000
“to be made available immediately
for feeding and protecting the elk in
Jackson Hole”. U.S. Biological Survey
biologist E.A. Preble, working with D. C.
Nowlin, recommended that a refuge be
established.
On August 10, 1912, Congress
appropriated $45,000 and decreed the
creation of a National Elk Refuge. The
Government incorporated 1,000 acres of
public land and 1,760 acres of purchased
land along Flat Creek to constitute the
Refuge. D.C. Nowlin became the rst
Refuge Manager.
Ultimately, 34 private homesteads
were acquired, including the property
of John Holland and John Carnes
who were the rst homesteaders in the
valley in 1884. Robert Miller, the third
homesteader in the valley and founder
of Jackson State Bank, sold his 160
acres to the Refuge in 1914. The Miller
House, which still sits on the Refuge and
is open to the public, became the Refuge
headquarters.
In 1925, the Izaak Walton League
of America purchased 1,760 acres of
private land for $36,000. This addition
was accepted by Congress as part of the
Refuge in 1927. An Act of Congress in
1935 provided six million dollars (the
equivalent of over 80 million in today’s
dollars) for the acquisition of land for
wildlife throughout the U.S. A portion
of these funds were used to acquire an
additional 14,000 acres, and negotiations
began to acquire just over 3,000 acres
from J.D. Rockefeller’s Snake River Land
Company. Roosevelt’s Executive Orders
in 1936 and 1937 added 3,165 acres and
618 acres of public land respectively to
the Refuge. These acquisitions brought
the total Refuge to its current size of
about 25,000 acres.
Leek, Stephen. The Elk of Jackson’s
Hole. Their History, Home and Habits.
c. 1914.
National Elk Refuge Celebrating a Century 1912-2012
by Steve Morriss
Stephen N. Leek feeding the elk.
S.N. Leek Collection, American Heritage Center
Starvation among elk herd around 1910.
S.N. Leek Collection, American Heritage Center
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Bob Adams
Kelsey Paige Al-Ghetta*
Ivan Alva-Alvarado*
Ana’s Grand Excursions
Mary Anderson
Pablo Arellano*
Pamala Arland*
Cathy Aronson and Jeff Wilson
Katharine Peru Baldwin*
Josh Banks*
Steve and Marylou Banks
Shannon Nicole Barlow*
Christian Barrera*
Getsemani Barrios-Perez*
James Basye*
John and Joyce Batson
Jesse Michael Bauer*
Braedon Beesley*
Gino Bellinghiere*
Tanner Ren Bent*
Mackenzie Bickner*
Conner Billingham*
Carol Black
Shelly Botts
Tom and Tina Bourdeaux
Mary Bowker
Matthew Bowlin*
Joseph Brama
Andrew Michael Bressler*
Grace Brown
Keaton Brown*
Annalyssa Campbell*
Aaron Carillo Hernandez*
Karen Melissa Casillas*
Jesus Cervantes*
Wyatt Chapdelaine*
Daniel Chavez*
Catherine Nicole Cloetta*
Hunter Collins*
Douglas Connelly
Daniel Corona*
Jim Crabb
Lori and Todd Crabtree
Gabe Davidson*
Sheila Davis
Aidan Murray Deiter*
Alexsander Delgado*
Tim Dibble
Paul and Susan Divjak
Turner Hayden Dobell*
Roger Dudley*
Alexandra Lynn Duncker*
Luz Zitlali Duran*
Molly Eastman*
Vivian Maya Eden*
Liliana Edmiston*
Sahir Enriquez*
Katelyn Estes*
Johnnie Ethington*
Kathryn Phelan Flanagan*
Charles Flickinger*
Andy Flores*
Lucas Freeze*
Jalaya Ocean Frisella-Kunst*
Katerina Tatiana Fuchs*
Roxanne Garcia*
Israel Garcia-Gutierrez*
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Joseph David Golightly*
Collin Matthew Grande*
Teague Gudemann*
Penny Halverson
Caryn Haman
Jeffrey Wayne Hansen*
Robbie Harding & William Bradley
Donald and Fran Harger
Jonathan Ryan Hawthorne*
Robert Allen Henry*
Edgar Hernandez*
Leslie Hill
Chelsea Marie Holcomb*
Victoria Adair Hollingsworth*
Tara Holmes*
Shane Holton*
August Hardin Horstmann*
Skye Magic Huber*
Emily Ann Humphrey*
James Svendsen Hunt*
Leif Huot*
Galen Lee Jacobs*
Tessa Lynn Jacobs*
Caroline Johnson
Sabrina Jourden*
Thomas Judge*
Elizabeth Karabatsus
Bridger Kessler*
Barbara and Michael Kinley
Jasper Kirsten*
David and Karen Klassen
Debra Knodel
Stephen Dominic Koerber*
Danielle Marie Krause*
Jane and Chuck Kusek
Thomas Leahey*
Hayden Leeds*
Harold Lewis
Carl Elliott Lindstrom*
Douglas Lonneker
Tatiana Luchetta*
Dominic John Luksich*
Kyler Lunde*
Brittany Lyman*
Adam and Elizabeth Maberly
Joy Anne MacConnell
Emily Machol*
Austin Mader*
Marlowe LeClaire Maguire*
Connor Malette*
Graham Marousek*
Elizabeth Martinez*
Leyla Martinez*
Hunter William Matthies*
Gemma May*
Cora McCandless*
Hank McKinnell
Amanda McMullen*
Mitchell Reid McNeel*
Taylor Riley Meadows*
Pedro Melendez*
Brower and Diana Merriam
Andrew Mark Miller*
Jameson Ann Mitchell*
Jessica Moore*
Cesar Alan Morales*
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Shelly Leigh Moyer*
Jose Pedro Nascimento*
Maddison Claire Nielsen*
Nikai
Bo Nilson*
Diane Nodell
Alexandra Nicole Nye*
Richard Opsahl
Erick Ortiz*
Emily Overton*
Jason Palmer*
Samantha Pardee*
Erika Partida*
Morgan Patterson*
Marissa Peck*
Juan Pablo Perez
Dustin Scott Perrin*
Maxwell Allyn Prevost*
Mick Rammell*
Stevie Marie Randall*
Andy Renz*
Sydney Leigh Roberts*
Adriana Romero-Duran*
Marc Rossolo*
Ronald Rutherford
Francisco Jesue Saldana*
Kayla Therese Saycocie*
Lars Erik Schou*
Oliver Mohr Scoeld*
Sarina Thal Scott*
Kilamu Sherpa*
Cory Bennett Shockley*
Gavin Shockley*
Ann Smith
Mitchell Smith*
Peyton Goodell Smith*
Sean Calvin Sonderman*
Irene and Rich Steeg
Steven and Rebecca Stoll
Summit Insurance Services, Inc.
William Swanson
Dorothy Tanner
Sandra Teller
Luke Terkovich*
Christopher Thompson*
Natalie Katherine Thulin*
Lorraine Tufts
Rosa Yajahira Tzompa-Garcia*
David and Carol Vandenberg
Amelia Louise Vincent*
Sara Vogel*
Vanessa Loraine Walker*
Ty David Warner*
Mandze Webster*
Steve Weichman
Lucas Ryan Wiedeman*
Mallory Keenan Wilson*
Samuel Fischer Wiswell*
Bonny Jacinda Wood*
Dillon Wright*
Wyoming Balloon Company
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Welcome First Time New Members and
Business Partners (April to July):
Lower Bar BC - continued from Page 1.
Sources
Bar BC Ranch, Winter 2008-2009 Newsletter.
Special thanks to Mary Jane Ashmore.
Charter, Anne Goddard. Four Dollars and Sixty
Cents Short, 1993. Page 4.
Daugherty, John. A Place Called Jackson Hole,
1999. Pages 115, 226.
Kreps, Bonnie. Windows to the Past, 2006. Pages
31, 34.
Lytjen, Lokey. JHHSM program for the Jackson
Hole Land Trust, July 21, 2010. Pages 5, 6.
Pointer, Larry. In Search of Butch Cassidy, 1940.
Page 240.
Thuermer Jr., Angus M. Jackson Hole Daily,
October 12, 2004.
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Join us in our Mission — Preserving and Sharing
the Heritage of Jackson Hole
Become a Business
Partner today!
The Benets of Annual
Business Partnerships:
FRIEND PARTNERSHIP:
$100
Partnership ID card
Quarterly Chronicle with interesting
historical articles and list of upcoming
events
Free admission to the museum and
regular programs for business owner/
principal
Two reusable employee passes to the
museum and regular programs
10% discount on purchases at Museum
Store
Recognition in publications and
program iers
CONTRIBUTING PARTNERSHIP:
$250
All of the above, plus —
Choice of 8 x 10 historic photograph
SUSTAINING PARTNERSHIP:
$500
All of the above, plus —
$25 gift certicate to the Museum Store
BENEFACTOR PARTNERSHIP:
$1,000
All of the above, plus —
Listing/link on our website
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Member Benefits Benefactor Sustaining Contributing Friend under 18) Individual (65 +) (K-12)
$1,000 $500 $250 $100 $60 $35 $25 $10
Membership card X X X X X X X X
Free admission to Museum X X X X X X X X
Free admission to regular programs X X X X X X X X
Ten percent discount on purchases X X X X X X X X
Quarterly Newsletter with historical stories X X X X X X X X
Choice of historic photographic 8 x 10 X X X
Annual Dues
Individual Annual Membership Application
Benefactor $1,000 Family (children under 18) $60
Sustaining $500 Individual $35
Contributing $250 Senior (65 and over) $25
Friend $100 Student (K-12) $10
Name(s)
E-mail address
Summer mailing address/dates
City State Zip
Winter mailing address/dates
City State Zip
Summer phone Winter phone
WANTED
~NEW MEMBERS~
Clip and mail with check to:
Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum
P. O. Box 1005, Jackson, WY 83001
or join online at www.jacksonholehistory.org
Seven hundred and forty members of the Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum are the heart of our organization. More
and more people are learning about the value of our mission thanks to our members. We want our membership to grow to engage
more and more people in supporting the new, year-round history museum for our community, and to increase our potential to
achieve our organizational goals. If you are not a member, will you become a part of our vision? If you are a member, will you
invite at least one person to join? Business Partnerships are also available. Below is an individual membership form to complete
and mail in, or you can join through our website www.jacksonholehistory.org. Thank you for your support!
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August
September
Sunday, August 19, 4:00 p.m.
Slim Lawrence Barbecue
Lower Bar BC Ranch
Barbecue by Western Range
Catering, music by Shelley, Kelly
and Friends, silent auction, and
new this year – dance oor!
Advance reservations required,
733-2414.
Friday, September 7
Hike the History Trail
Presented by the JHHSM and the
Bridger-Teton National Forest.
Teton Pass to Trail Creek, pre-
registration required, call Linda
Merigliano for more details and to
register, 739-5428.
U p c o m i n g E v e n t s
non-prot organization
U.S. Postage
PAID
Jackson, WY
Permit 82
ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED
P. O. Box 1005, Jackson, WY 83001
“Our Heritage ~ Grand and Alive”
We Appreciate Our Business Partners!
Benefactor Partnerships $1,000+
Bank of Jackson Hole
Community Foundation of Jackson Hole
Grand Teton Lodge Company
The Lexington
Old Wilson Schoolhouse
Riverecho
Teton Heritage Builders
The Virginian Lodge
Wells Fargo
Sustaining Partnerships $500-$999
Antler Inn
Cowboy Village Resort
Nikai
Our Town Media
Spring Creek Ranch
Teton Views
The Wort Hotel
Contributing Partnerships $250-$499
Aspens Market
Boyer’s Indian Arts and Crafts
Bushong Property Services
Casper Antique & Collectors Club
Delcon, Inc.
Exum Mountain Guides
Jackson Hole High School
Jackson Hole Mountain Guides
JMC Professional Cleaning Service
Lozier Corporation
Marmot
Outdoor Research
Teton Mountaineering
Triangle X Ranch
Ward + Blake Architects
Friend Partnerships $100-$249
3 Creek Ranch Golf Club
49’er Inn and Suites
Ana’s Grand Excursions
Bar J Chuckwagon
James Barlow Family Ltd. Partnership
Beaver Creek Hat and Leather
CopyWorks
Dembergh Construction Wyoming, Inc.
Elk Country Inn
Forbes, Inc.
Gun Barrel Steakhouse
Hawtin Jorgensen Architects, P.C.
Hub International Insurance
Jackson Hole Art Auction
Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce
Jackson Lumber
Jackson Printing
Jackson Whole Grocer
Lee’s Tees
The Liquor Store
Mangy Moose
McDonald’s
Million Dollar Cowboy Bar
Bob Moore Construction, Inc.
Moose Head Ranch, Inc.
Moulton Ranch Cabins
Pierson Land Works Inc.
Signal Mountain Lodge
Start to Finish Builders, LLC
Summit Insurance Services, Inc.
Teton Motors
Wells Fargo Advisors
West Lives On Gallery
Western Center for the Conservation
of Fine Arts
Wyoming Balloon Company
Saturday, September 8, 10:00 am
Old Bill’s Fun Run 2012, Town
Square
Come see our booth, run or
walk in the event, donate to the
JHHSM, and enjoy the food,
entertainment, and community
spirit. Your support will be
greatly appreciated! Tickets
will be sold at our booth for
the second showing of The
Stagecoach Bar: An American
Crossroads if it is not sold out.
Saturday, September 8, 8:00 pm
The Stagecoach Bar: An
American Crossroads
Walk Festival Hall, Teton
Village. Tickets $10 available
at the museum, the Stagecoach
Bar, and at the door. Doors open
at 7:30 pm, Q&A with producer
following the lm.
Thursday, September 20, 6:30 pm
End-of-Summer Potluck Program
Louie and Paula Leisinger’s house.
Bring a dish to share and table
service. Program to be announced.
Please remember the Jackson Hole
Historical Society and Museum when
you make your donations through Old
Bill’s Fun Run 2012. Thank you!
