For over thirty-seven years, Margaret and Olaus Murie made their
home in the mountainous wilderness of the Tetons, where Olaus Murie
conducted his famous studies of the American elk, the wapiti.
Through these years their home was almost a nature-conservation
shrine to thousands of Americans interested in the out-of-doors, in
animals, in nature in general. "Wapiti Wilderness," begun by Mrs.
Murie as a sequel to her "Two in the Far North," which told of the
Muries' life and expeditions in Alaska, became a book written by
both the Muries.
In alternate chapters, Olaus tells of his work as a field
biologist for the old U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey and recounts
stories of his studies of the elk and the other great animals of
the West. And Mrs. Murie, from her side, describes their life
together, on the trail, in the various camps, and nature adventures
in that wilderness in all seasons. The book is replete with stories
of Jackson Hole people, "pioneer poets," and the wild creatures
that made their way into the Murie household. Olaus Murie's
evocative pen-and-ink drawings illuminate each chapter, and four
pages of photographs help complete the picture of what life was
like in the wapiti wilderness.
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