JHStyle Magazine Winter/Spring 2023-24
The premier resource for Jackson Hole WY residents and visitors, featuring restaurants, profiles on business leaders and local store owners, conservation efforts and skiing the backcountry.
The premier resource for Jackson Hole WY residents and visitors, featuring restaurants, profiles on business leaders and local store owners, conservation efforts and skiing the backcountry.
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PUSHING BOUNDARIES<br />
LEGENDARY JACKSON<br />
HOLE TRAILBLAZERS<br />
From conservation efforts to ski tourism,<br />
these visionaries forged the path to our present<br />
1958.1047.001<br />
WORDS Heather Jarvis<br />
IMAGES Collection of the Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum<br />
Whether it’s the inspiring peaks of the Tetons, the serene<br />
beauty of the landscape, or the community, Jackson Hole<br />
has long drawn the intrepid, the bold, the conquerors,<br />
the doers. Early settlers braved harsh, isolated winters. Ranchers<br />
forged ahead into a new frontier with tourism. Passionate<br />
visionaries built a skier’s dream. And now, Jackson Hole hosts<br />
a new breed of talent, a collection of citizens with extreme<br />
athleticism, creativity, foresight and determination.<br />
Along the way, there were plenty of innovators who helped<br />
transform Jackson Hole from the rough and tumble Wild West<br />
town into what it is today — a playground for billionaires, a<br />
sanctuary for the adventurous, a home for the driven. As with<br />
many mountain towns, only the most determined were able to<br />
thrive year-round, but those who did built — with hard work<br />
and grit — what many view as a paradise. It takes a village to<br />
build a strong community, and many previous residents are to<br />
be thanked for making — and preserving — Jackson Hole into<br />
what it is today. Here we’ve compiled a few notable trailblazers<br />
whose vision for the future created our present.<br />
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