Bio: Dudes mid 1970’s. Descriptor: The White Grass experience with family. Nikki’s Story: I visited White Grass Ranch back in the mid-seventies with my husband, my brother & his wife and my mother & father. We had visited Jackson Hole often since I was child and it was always a favorite place for us to return to. My father […]
Bio: Waitress, 1964-1966. Descriptor: Wonderful summers at White Grass, the magic there and becoming a Westerner moving from Vermont. Elizabeth’s Story: I came to White Grass from Vermont, thanks to my sister Karin. She sent me money for the bus, and I set out sometime in June 1964 for three days and two nights, nonstop. I had never […]
Bio: Cabin Girl, 1970’s. Descriptor: After college graduation, Patricia Hobbs Tompkins and Liz met several White Grass Wrangler’s from Harvard, Yale and Princeton and began a life-long love affair with Wyoming and the Ranch. Liz’s Story: My mother “Lizzie” (Elizabeth Mifflin Thayer) and her younger sister “Fricky” (Frances Dercum Mifflin) from the Main Line outside Philadelphia drove out […]
Bio: Ranch Staff, 1953-65. Descriptor: The passing of Chick Galey and the extended familiar ties among many White Grassers. Rachel’s Story: Chick (Charles Lord) Galey died in Sheridan Wyoming, two days ago – February 3rd 2010. Chick was a cousin of Frank Galey. He came to the White Grass in the late 40’s from his home in the […]
Bio: Dude, 1946-55. Descriptor: About those pigs in the girls cabin… Fred’s Story: Pigs in the girls cabin was simply pay back for short sheets in B.Q. Well deserved but you knew that would not be the end.
Bio: Ranch Staff, 1953-65. Descriptor: White Grass stories deserving to be told, e.g., ‘pigs in the girl’s cabin.’ Rachel’s Story: Do believe White Grass was the beginning of adult life for many of us not all memories to be put in print. Anyway, one year out of England and finding White Grass was hard to understand. The WEST, […]
Bio: Friend of Frank and Inge Galey, mid 1950’s. Descriptor: An unsuccessful attempt to be the White Grass cook and Frank using elk meat to entice his Labrador, ‘Dudi’ to pull electric wire in the crawl space under the Main Cabin floor. John’s Story: It must have been in the mid ’50s after Jackson Lake Lodge, where I […]
Bio: Kid Dude 1953-60; Wrangler, 1961-62. Descriptor: Wrangling horses often before daylight was a lesson in personal solitude, oneness with a horse and a magical adventure for a 19 year old from the east. Bernie’s Story: Wrangling by Bernie Huebner, younger son of John and Betty Huebner, who vacationed at WG through the 50s and 60s until they […]
Bio: Dude, circa 1970. Descriptor: Encountering a grizzly while riding a horse named Bananas headed up Stuart’s Draw. Louise’s Story: WHOA White Grass was the rustic dude ranch where we stayed each summer nestled under Buck Mountain in The Tetons. It was a place that renewed the spirit as the experiences there put us in touch with nature. […]
Bio: Wrangler, 1974-76. Descriptor: Would like to connect with other former employees. John’s Story: I worked at White Grass first as a ‘gopher’ and then as a wrangler during the summers of 1974-1976. What an incredible place. I am interested in contacting other former employees, am wondering do you have any info that might help?