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Show oo JACKSON HOLE HERO EXPIRES SUDDENLY LS ANGELES, Aug 16.- Edwin U. .Trafton, whose- experiences in the Jackson Hole country of Wyoming, was said to haw formed the1 basis of I O Weil Wlster's noel, "The Virginian" I dropped dead w inle- e.-ating an be creani soda In a downtown establishment establish-ment late today. Trafton was Identified from letters 'In his pockets. One was written by James V . Melrose of Denver, for 16 years a special agent of the department depart-ment of Justice, who stated that Trafton Traf-ton known also as Eel Harrington, had been a guide In Yellowstone park for 16 years, hseti punched bulls with Buffalo Bill." und hod many egcltmg experiences' in the days of tho old we st The police started a search for Traf-ton's Traf-ton's wife, believqd to be a patb-nt In a Los Angeles hospital. |