Author Fern Nelson moved to Jackson, Wyoming, before she was a year old. She participated in much of the history of Jackson's Hole and was acquainted with the early settlers. She had the presence of mind to interview Jackson's Hole old-timers during the 1960s and 1970s when many of the first residents were still alive. Nelson's stories of the incidents and individuals of Jackson's Hole as it was, but will never be again, are sure to inform and entertain you. There are stories that will make you laugh like the one of Joe Nethercott who came home to find his neighbors had turned his cabin logs into a church. There are stories that will make you cringe like the one of fourteen-year-old Mark Anderson who wouldn't give up and die, so was carried on a stretcher from Jackson to Victor, Idaho, by four men on foot. Jackson's Hole is a community unlike any other. A community with many stories to tell.