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By Dewey, 7-28-10
Maybe David Frey should visit Sunlight Basin and Crandall in northwest Wyoming , and Cooke City MT before he tops off that global Hemingway piece.

Then again , maybe we'd like to keep our local history secrets a few decades longer....
By Jenny Shank, 7-28-10
Dewey,

Now I'm curious! Did Hemingway hang out in Montana and Wyoming too? Or is that all top secret?
By Patia, 7-28-10
What a great idea for a book. I once sent myself a postcard from Hemingway House in Key West.
By Larry Kralj, Environmental Rangers!, 7-28-10
Hemmingway loved Red Lodge. He spent a lot of time there drinking in the bars. Then, he spent seven weeks in St. Vincent Hospital recovering from a broken arm he recieved in a one car accident by Park City. The nurse that attended him became the inspiration for the short story, The Gamble, the Nurse, and the Radio, or some such. He knew Montana well.
By Dewey, 7-28-10
Hemingway spent quite a bit of time fishing and hunting in the triangle between Cody , Cooke City, and Red Lodge in the 1920's ( and early 30's maybe) when it was really inaccessible. He returned a few times in later years, but by then it was too " civilized" for him.

Robert Hoskins has a lot of info on this phase of his life.
By David Frey, 7-29-10
Yeah, Hemingway logged lots of time in Montana and Wyoming, even though Idaho gets most of the attention because that's where he bought a home and committed suicide.

Thanks for all the tips, folks.
By Mickey Garcia, 7-29-10
The book could very well be called "In the Footsteps of a Manic Depressive Ego Maniac". But then again its not unusual that genius and personality disorders go hand in hand.
By Anthony, 8-06-10
Author and Historian Eustace Mullins (Deceased Feb/2010) has stated in several interveiws that Ernest Hemingway worked for a short time at The Moose Jaw Herald Newspaper in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan Canada in his early years. He stated that he had confirmed this with Hemingways Mentor/Editor Ezra Pound who was himself a famous author.
Saskatchewan shares a border with Montana and was a Major Railway hub back in the 20's and 30's. Has anyone here ever heard anything in this regard.
Thanks for any and all comments.
By Kirk Giloth, 11-13-10
Anthony,

I have studied Hemingway for 40 years, knew and fished with his son, Jack, aka "Bumby" in his book, A Moveable Feast, about his Paris years, and know that he worked for a Toronto newspaper, after a stint on the Kansas City Star, but I've never heard of him working for the Moose Jaw Harald. I would be suspicious about a report from Ezra Pound on this rumor.
By Albert, 11-20-10
I am a huge Hemingway fan and I agree with the sentiment that this was a great idea for a book. Being fan of literature from him and other American authors of his time I wonder how all of the places abroad in "A Movable Feast" and "Sun Also Rises" have changed. I would imagine some places he traveled in MT, WY, and ID are still the same but perhaps the towns have become cities or resorts?

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