By Margaret Murie, Olaus Murie
For over thirty-seven years, Margaret and Olaus Murie made their domestic within the mountainous desert of the Tetons, the place Olaus Murie carried out his well-known reports of the yankee elk, the wapiti. via those years their domestic was once virtually a nature-conservation shrine to millions of american citizens attracted to the out-of-doors, in animals, in nature regularly. In trade chapters, Olaus tells of his paintings as a box biologist for the previous US Bureau of organic Survey and recounts tales of his stories. Mrs Murie, from her aspect, describes their existence jointly, at the path, within the a variety of camps, and nature adventures in that desert in the course of all 4 seasons. The publication is replete with tales of Jackson gap humans, of 'pioneer poets', and of the wild creatures that made their manner into the Murie loved ones. Olaus Murie's evocative pen-and-ink drawings light up each one bankruptcy, and 4 pages of pictures aid whole the image of what existence was once like within the wapiti wasteland.
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Knopf, Inc. Chapter 4 originally appeared in Nature magazine, and several of the drawings originally appeared in The Living Wilderness (now known as Wilderness). The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College of Colorado.
Occasionally I became aware of a pair of ears nearby and a serious elk face ludicrously intent on scrutinizing me. I would stand still and try to outlast the patience of the suspicious one, until she went on, uneasily. They went deeper into the pine woods, and I returned to the open meadows and made my way back to camp. Spring had reached its climax; the wapiti were moving higher into the mountains. Time for us to move with them. Page 42 4 Voices of the Moonlight In the fall of 1928 my brother Adolph was able to stay late enough to help me on an autumn field trip before going back to the University of Michigan.
Mass recreation had not yet, in 1927, invaded Yellowstone. It was not crowded. The bus trip down through the park to the south entrance was a leisurely one. Never again can I have quite the same feelings in visiting a newer, modern national park. Yellowstone will always remain something unique. At the same time, my thoughts were eagerly reaching south toward that valley of the wapiti, the elk. On still another bus, late in the day, I arrived at the village of Moran and in the dusk, across Jackson Lake, saw those peaks rising straight up on its western shore, so startling I felt I was perhaps dreaming.