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Jackson Hole News & Guide

Reflecting the unique character of Jackson Hole.

Forest: Doo-doo a no-no
Posted: February 9th, 2010
Bridger-Teton National Forest will step up enforcement efforts to address the problem of dog waste after a recent survey counted 173 piles of poop left behind in the Cache Creek trailhead area.

Beacon, shovels can't save Montana sledder
Posted: February 9th, 2010
A Dillon, Mont., snowmobiler became the latest regional avalanche victim when he died Saturday in a slide in Lincoln County south of Jackson.

Police hope clothing helps identify burglar
Posted: February 9th, 2010
Police are warning people to lock their doors and are trying to identify a man who entered a Jackson home early Sunday and escaped half clothed after a confrontation with the residents.

NewWest.net - Jackson Hole, WY

New West is a next-generation media company dedicated to the culture, economy, politics, environment and lifestyle of the Rocky Mountain West. Our core mission is to serve the Rockies with innovative, participatory journalism and to promote conversation that helps us understand and make the most of the dramatic changes sweeping our region.

Where Have All the Ski Bums Gone?
Posted: February 8th, 2010
They're not on the ski slopes. They're not in the bars. Have all the ski bums left Big Sky? "A lot of guys are skiing backcountry now because it's free," said John the physical therapist. "Also, a lot of them worked construction to support their skiing habits. Those jobs don't exist any more." A footnote to the current recession is its effect on Big Sky's ski bum culture--girls and guys who live to ski and will work for ski passes or at part-time jobs that permit time off on powder days.

Things That Go Bump in Wyoming: Alyson Hagy's "Ghosts of Wyoming"
Posted: February 1st, 2010
Ghosts of Wyoming By Alyson Hagy Graywolf Press, 192 pages, $15 Some places feel more haunted than others.  As Alyson Hagy explores in her new collection of short stories, Ghosts of Wyoming, Wyoming is one of those places where the past seems to overlap with the present, where the rough frontier that she writes of in "The Sin Eaters," set in 1889, seems to have plenty in common with the oil rig-riddled Wyoming of today, in which Hagy sets the story "Oil & Gas." Throughout many of the stories, details about the Arapaho and other tribes that settled the area first set a somber tone underneath the main narrative.  Some of these stories touch on issues that are also raised in the work of Annie Proulx, Alexandra Fuller, and other contemporary Wyoming writers, but as with all good fiction, Hagy isn't trying to convey a message.  She's just telling some first-rate ghost stories. Only one of the eight stories, "Superstitions of the Indians," is a ghost story in the classic sense, but they all have ghosts in them in the form of people who have died or characters haunted by the past.  One of the best stories is the lead-off, "Border," which conceals its ghost until the very end in an effective twist that works as such endings should, not as a "gotcha!" moment but as a revelation that makes sense of and lends gravity to all the prior events.  In "Border," a young man hitchhiking his way out of Wyoming, aiming for Denver or beyond, pauses in his journey to steal a collie pup in Meeker, Colo. 

Rick Bass's New Novella, "The Blue Horse," and a Horse Writing Retreat
Posted: January 6th, 2010
Narrative Magazine, a leading online literary journal, is currently offering some new work by prolific Montana author Rick Bass. Bass has published a number of stories and essays in Narrative, and currently you can hear Bass read his story "Eating" for free, or for twelve bucks you can order The Blue Horse, a new novella available only at Narrative.  It's 56 pages long, and the price includes shipping. Also in the Roundup: The "Literature and Landscape of the Horse" retreat in Wyoming, Denver novelist Carleen Brice holds a contest to benefit a local charity, and a new interview with Terry Tempest Williams.

Casper Star-Tribune - Wyoming News

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Posted: February 9th, 2010
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