Jackson Hole Journey

Jackson Hole Journey is the story of a dude ranch in 1920’s Wyoming. It is a period of change in the West and Ms. Jacobs shows the conflicts that are occurring through this one dude ranch. It is a time of Prohibition, falling prices in the cattle industry, modernization, and ethnic friction. All of......more

Lovely young Francesca di Paioli has come a long way from New York to Wyoming to work as a chef at a Jackson Hole dude ranch. Her hopes are dashed because another cook was hired, but William Sutton offers her a position at his own family’s ranch. The next day she and William are buried in the infamo......more

Penniless and stranded at a remote western train station, Italian immigrant Francesca di Paoli, is rescued by kind, rugged William Sutton, and employed at his family’s sprawling Snake River Dude Ranch as a cook – a skill learned in her native Tuscany. William is smitten, and offers Francesca the sec......more

JACKSON HOLE JOURNEY by Linda Jacobs This book is about a family in the wild west and they run a ranch and up against many political things such as land rights and the beginning of the National Park Service. Love this book for many reasons: the detailed travel descriptions and the historical facts of......more