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Picture of Ned Frost’s doughnut and recipe from 1886. Doughnut uses Bear grease and elk fat in the recipe. A picture of Ned Frost with five wolves he has poisoned. A letter to Time Life bureau 04/20/1954 that explains the pictures of the doughnuts and the 5 dead wolves, both items were found in a trunk Jack opened. Picture dates to 1899 and doughnuts were truly made in 1886. A long article that explains how Jack found the objects.

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Brochure History and Present Status of the Breeding Colony of the White Pelican.

Brochure reprinted from the Condor Vol XXXVI July August 1934.

The Primitive Persists in Bird Life of Yellowstone Park by George M. Wright.

Article is A Wilderness-Use Technique by Ben H. Thompson.

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A letter from Jack Richard to the Red Lodge Chamber of Commerce asking for information about the road from Red Lodge to Cooke City. Jack took some aerial shots and some ground photos and is curious about when road built, elevation of summit and lakes visible from the highway.

Brochure from Red Lodge talking about tourism.

1940 brochure speaking about Shoshone National Forest.

Billings Gazette supplement titled The Land of Shining Mountains.

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Wyoming Rural Electric News 04/1976 speaking of about the Forest was home to Ranger stations, Sawmill, tie hacks. Article went on talking about tie hacks which peaked in the 1930’s.

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A fishing yarn by Jack Richard that talks about trying to catch Sunapee Golden Trout in the Big Horn mountains to display at the State Fair. The story is how the author got up to the location to fish for the Sunapee legally and under the watchful eye of the Game Warden. There is a letter from Carl Rott who is the editor of the Sheridan Press explaining how he got a piece of the story and telling Jack that if he and Mrs. Rott were in the area (Cody) to stop in and say hello.

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A short story about Sam Berry shooting a doorknob on the bar room door just as someone else was trying to open the bar room door. Second individual supposedly never touched a bar room door knob the rest of his life.

Second story is about an irrigator on a large Wyoming ranch who was having trouble with beavers damming up the irrigation canal and how his boss told him to fix the problem.

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A short story by Jack Richard about Ned Frost and a grizzly bear.

Jack recounts a story told by Ned Frost of trying to catch a grizzly bear in a bear trap and how he was unsuccessful, but the bear made a new path through the woods getting away from the trap.

Letter from Jack Richard submitting the story to True Magazine in 1958.

Scope and Contents Ned Frost writes a description of the Grizzly Bear and how it was at the top of the food chain in North America. Not much was really known about Grizzly’s until the Lewis and Clark expedition brought back stories of their encounters with Grizzly’s on their 3 year expedition. Ned also speaks to his experiences hunting grizzly’s in NW Wyoming. Frost also talks about old 4 Toes a famous grizzly in the Meeteetse, Wyoming area who was finally killed in 1908 after losing one toe in a bear...

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2 brochures about Lake Trout in Yellowstone.

Brochure 1 is Yellowstone Lake Trout Creel Census 1950-1951, special scientific report: No 81.

Brochure 2 is Length Measurements of the Lake Yellowstone Trout special scientific report: No 103.