Hemingway Adventure (1999) (23 page)

Yellowstone National Park. Thermal energy bubbles up at Fountain Paint Pot.

Pre-hunting breakfast at the Corral Bar. The men talk of the liberties and responsibilities of the hunter. These are not trophy hunters; they may take days to stalk one elk.

The Big Country. My first time in Montana and Wyoming and I feel swallowed up by the landscape.

Montana; rolling, uninhibited and expansive country.

My one-ton Ford pick-up truck is dwarfed by the forests of Yellowstone National Park, scorched by the huge fires of 1988.

A bison for the wall at the taxidermist in Outlaw Drive.

The first time I’ve felt comfortable on a horse. Riding a Palomino at the Hargrave Ranch, Montana.

The front office and recent clients (including stuffed author).

Leo and Ellen - our heavenly hosts at the Hargrave Ranch.

‘Wrist and elbow’. All you need to remember when throwing a lasso, according to Ken, my rope coach.

The Magnificent Six bring the cattle back home. Less of a stampede, more like rounding up a creche. But it
was
our first day.

Hemingway’s last home, in Ketchum, Idaho.

The sitting-room at night. With big picture window and stairway to bedroom at right of fireplace.

Tragic history but a magnificent setting. Clouds rise over the Sawtooth Mountains to the north.