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Show THE ZEPHYR/ APRIL-MAY 2003 I want to stay a little longer with that elk hunt. Along the way, getting to the hunting grounds, Elinore Stewart and Mrs. O’Shaughnessy befriended an orphan in Green River, aided and abetted a pair of runaway newlyweds north of Pinedale, sympathized with a crazed sheepherder and comforted a bereft widow. As I read NORMA NUNN Century, (W) 435.259.5024 Stewart's account J speculate that the two women’s Christian virtues are safely housed in their own life experiences, ready for each day’s challenge. ll take a little leap here, to imagine a time and place where "spiritual refreshment” is not an up-front issue, where "recovery from Western civilization" is not a desperately imagined goal, where two women (Al) 435.299 7275 relatively free of spiritual EXECUTIVE RANCHETTE starvation in the modern sense are more objective, more down-to-earth and capable of action, than many a modern wilderness devotee. and Is that a stretch? Maybe, but one thing is clear enough. Stewart and O’Shaughnessy were not bedeviled by the thought that their presence was a dark stain on the wilderness. They endured snow and cold and bogged wagons and balky horses and down timber, enjoyed their own make-do enterprise and expertise, and the scenery; they savored sly judgments of the men, and of themselves; and everyone "got their elk." the Wind River mountains are hedged in by grazing allotments, campgrounds and signed trailheads, but it’s still wild; different, of course, but less so, I think, than we who go there as short-term visitors. The Stewart party were visitors too and I suppose they thought of themselves in that way; but their recreation and sight-seeing were subordinate to a task that was part of their homestead lives. 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