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Share Your Story

Share Your Story is about Your White Grass Story(s) whether you are a former dude or wrangler, volunteer, rehabilitation specialist, special friend to the ranch, preservation workshop instructor, trainee, historian, student or interested person.

Share Your Story documents how the dude ranch experience changed the lives of many individuals and families and it seeks to document White Grass evolving into a National Park Service Training Center teaching historical preservation skills to professionals and students from across the country.

But don’t take our word, read an invitation to Share Your Story from Cynthia Galey Peck who grew up on the ranch with her parents, Frank and Inga Galey, starting in the 1940’s.

“I invite all to share your White Grass stories whether it involves life changes, working, a dude experience, fund raising campaign or rehabilitation and training stories. (It is) a way to share and contribute to the history of White Grass Ranch (and) fulfills a desire of former Dudes and Wranglers who wanted their ranch stories and history collected, preserved and available for the future.

Your story(s) will be added to the many White Grass stories collected between 2010-2014 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation who granted permission for 75+ stories to be posted below. (Your) pictures are welcome on the site also.

I am delighted that White Grass’s story and history is ongoing, humans are using this special spot, animals still roam the area and natural processes continue. May all who come to White Grass enjoy this special place.” -Cynthia Galey Peck

Please click on the names below to read their stories, or use the search bar above to look for an individual or topic of interest, e.g., person’s name, pack trips, cabin girls.

The stories are made available here for educational and research purposes only. Commercial use is prohibited. Requests for reproduction of these materials must be submitted at: whitegrass@jacksonholehistory.org

David Kinker 11.2.2013

Bio: Frank Galey’s Grandson and Junior Wrangler, circa, 1970’s. Descriptor: A Teenager’s ‘firsts’ and lessons learned during two and half summers at the ranch. David’s Story: I worked at the ranch as a “junior wrangler.” We teens lived in a old army mess tent with a pot belly stove, ridiculously uneven floors as the plywood sheets had warped […]

David Carter 10.16.2013

Bio: Dude, 1970’s. Descriptor: Harold Hammond Family Connections and the Galey’s. Seeking information about the White Grass Cemetery. David’s Story: My cousin, Marie Adele Ireland, was Harold Hammond’s first wife – and I guess that’s how my family first came to White Grass. We spent a few summers at White Grass and my brothers and I were campers at Teton […]

Robin Winters 7.10.2013

Bio: Grandfather Owned Cabin Adjacent to White Grass Pond. Descriptor: Summers at grandfather’s cabin. Robin’s Story: My Grandfather Hans Nolde owned the small cabin a bit away from the ranch, the one with the pond, on 5 acres. My Mom Jeanne Winters and all of her 4 daughters, Nicki, Pam, Denise and myself spent every summer there from […]

Bernie Huebner 5.15.2013

Bio: Kid Dude 1953-60; Wrangler, 1961-62. Descriptor: I think I remember Lynn Mitchell from Birmingham. Bernie’s Story: What a strange twist of time that you should write, Lynne, and that I am in your diary of more than 50 years ago. I was 13 that summer also, utterly ignorant about girls–what do you expect from a kid who […]

Lynne Mitchell Werner 11.21.2012

Bio: Dude at 13 Years of Age, 1957. Descriptor: Things I wrote in my diary, Singing Sam and campfires, ‘young loves,’ and being close to God in the mountains. Lynne’s Story: My mom, dad, younger sister, and I [age 13] stayed at White Grass for a month in the summer of 1957. I still have so many vivid […]

Jayme Puddephatt 4.3.2013

Descriptor: Writing for Share Your Story. Jayme’s Story: I have to thank you for the efforts you have put in penning this website. I really hope to see the same high-grade content by you in the future as well. In fact, your creative writing abilities has encouraged me to get my own blog now 😉

Wayne Aldridge 8.16.2012

Bio: Dude, 1977. Descriptor: Shooting mice in the BQ (Bachelor’s Quarters).    Wayne’s Story: In reading the comments I saw one written by Eric Gerst. I was the friend he went west with in 1977. This is one of those cases that you know exactly where you were when an event happened – this being the anniversary of […]

JM 7.18.2012

Bio: Staff, 1982-83.  Descriptor: Loved working at the ranch. JM’s Story: Lived and worked there in 82 -83 summers loved it.

Patricia Taylor Edmisten 7.11.2012

Bio: Dude, 1978.  Descriptor: My 10 year old son as a ‘Junior Wrangler,’ cold morning cabins, valued family style meals and the glacier-blue water of Phelps Lake. Patricia’s Story: I took my ten-year-old son to the White Grass Ranch in May of 1978. Then, the site was still a working horse ranch as well as a dude ranch. […]

Dave Slack 7.9.2012

Bio: Ranch River Guide, Early 1980’s.  Descriptor: The best summer of my life. Dave’s Story: I stayed there with my family a couple of years back in the early 80’s. I asked Frank if he was hiring the following year? He said for me to put in an application. He called me the following year and asked if I wanted […]