Author Owen Wister spent many summers in his cabin near Jackson, Wyoming. The inspiring daily view and his hunting trips and adventures into and around the Grand Teton Mountains informed his first-hand knowledge of the region—and his writing of what most consider the first classic Western novel, The Virginian. — Courtesy Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints
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