One notable error in Mr. Olafson's paper is that near Coulee City, on October 19, it was not the Columbia river (over 25 miles away), but the Dry Falls that Wister viewed.
Nat Washington, a State Senator from Ephrata in the 1960s, suggested that some of the details about Medicine Bow were taken from Wister's impressions of Coulee City. While I am not inclined to agree, it is nevertheless an interesting observation.
The "Hotel Grand" Wister mentions in his journal, quoted in the Olafson paper, was still standing in the early 1960s, vacant, but used for storage. The rooms may not have been "about the size of a spittoon ... ", but they were not much larger than a small walk-in closet. It was torn down a few years later. It was located next to the alley on the west side of 6th, between Main and Walnut, about a block from where I lived during my school years.
Les Lillquist, who was the principal at the high school in Coulee City in the late 1960's, wrote a history of Coulee City as part of the requirements for his master of arts degree. Wister's journal entry is quoted on pp. 68-69 of that manuscript. http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/12/lillquist-chapter-v-pt-2.html
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Rocky Mountain Online Archive
Owen Wister papers
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Owen Wister Out West: His Journals and Letters
University of Chicago Press, 1958
copy available in Northwest Room, Spokane City Library
American Heritage Center Digital Collections
University of Wyoming
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Novels
The New Swiss Family Robinson: A Tale for Children of All Ages (1882)
http://www.archive.org/details/ofwantleyh00wistdragonrich
The Dragon of Wantley: His Rise, His Voracity & His Downfall (1892)
http://www.archive.org/stream/ofwantleyh00wistdragonrich#page/n5/mode/2up
Lin McLean (1897)
http://www.archive.org/details/linmclean01385gut
http://www.archive.org/details/virginianahorse00wistgoog
The Virginian . A HORSEMAN OF THE PLAINS
New York . THE MACMILLAN COMPANY . 1902
http://www.archive.org/stream/virginianahorse00wistgoog#page/n6/mode/2up
Philosophy 4: A Story of Harvard University (1903)
http://www.archive.org/details/philosophy400862gut
A Journey in Search of Christmas (1904)
Lady Baltimore (1906)
http://www.archive.org/details/ladybaltimore01386gut
Padre Ignacio; or, the Song of Temptation (1911)
http://www.archive.org/details/padreignacioorth01388gut
Non-Fiction
U. S. GRANT: A BIOGRAPHY (1901)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, in the "American Men of Letters Series" (1902)
http://www.archive.org/details/muskoxbisonsheep01whit
Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat
with George Bird Grinnell and Caspar Whitney (1904)
http://www.archive.org/stream/muskoxbisonsheep01whit#page/n9/mode/2up
Benjamin Franklin, in the "English Men of Letters Series" (1904)
The Seven Ages of Washington: A Biography (1907)
The Pentecost of Calamity (1915)
http://www.archive.org/details/thepentecostofca32098gut
The Aftermath of Battle: With the Red Cross in France (1916)
(preface to Edward D. Toland's autobiography)
A Straight Deal: or the Ancient Grudge (1920)
http://www.archive.org/details/astraightdeal01379gut
Neighbors Henceforth (1922)
A Monograph of the Work of Mellor, Meigs, & Howe (1923)
Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship, 1880-1919 (1930)
Story collections
RED MEN AND WHITE (1895) (aka Salvation Gap and Other Western Classics)
The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories (1900)
http://www.archive.org/details/thejimmyjohnboss01390gut
Members of the Family (1911)
Safe in the Arms of Croesus (1927
When West Was West (1928)
Short Stories
Hank's Woman (1892)
How Lin McLean Went East (1892)
Em'ly (1893)
The Winning of the Biscuit-Shooter (1893)
Balaam and Pedro (1894)
The Promised Land (Wister short story) (1894)
A Kinsman of Red Cloud (1894)
Little Big Horn Medicine (1894)
Specimen Jones (1894)
The Serenade at Siskiyou (1894)
The General's Bluff (1894)
Salvation Gap (1894)
Lin McLean's Honey-Moon (1895)
The Second Missouri Compromise (1895)
La Tinaja Bonita (1895)
A Pilgrim on the Gila (1895)
Where Fancy Was Bred (1896)
Separ's Vigilante (1897)
Grandmother Stark (1897)
Sharon's Choice (1897)
Destiny at Drybone (1897)
Twenty Minutes for Refreshments (1900)
Padre Ignazio (1900)
The Game and the Nation (1900)
Mother (1901, 1907)
Superstition Trail (1901)
In a State of Sin (1901)
The Vicious Circle (1902)
With Malice Aforethought (1902)
Stanwick's Business (1904)
The Jimmyjohn Boss
Napoleon Shave-Tail
Happy Teeth
Spit-Cat Creek
In the Back
How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee (1907)
Timberline (Wister short story) (1908)
The Gift Horse (Wister short story) (1908)
Extra Dry (1909)
Where It Was (1911)
Safe in the Arms of Croesus
With the Coin of Her Life
The Honeymoonshiners
Bad Medicine (Wister short story)
Captain Quid
Once Round the Clock
The Right Honorable, The Strawberries (1928)
Little Old Scaffold (1928)
Absolom of Moulting Pelican (1928)
Skip to My Loo
At the Sign of the Last Chance (1938)
Essays
Where Charity Begins (1895)
The Evolution of the Cow-Puncher (1895)
Concerning "Bad Men" The True "Bad Men" of the Frontier, and the Reasons for His Existence (1901)
Theodore Roosevelt, Harvard "80 (1901)
The Open Air Education (1902)
After Four Years (1905)
High Speed English and American Railroad Flyers (1906)
The Keystone Crime: Pennsylvania's Graft-Cankered Capitol (1907)
According to a Passenger (1919)
How One Bomb Was Made (1921)
Roosevelt and the 1912 Disaster: A Friend Remembers - and Interprets (1930)
Roosevelt and the War: A Chapter of Memories (1930)
John Jay Chapman (Wister essay) (1934)
In Homage to Mark Twain (1935)
Old Yellowstone Days (1936)
Poetry
"The Pale Cast of Thought" (1890)
"From Beyond the Sea" (1890)
"Autumn on Wind River" (1897)
"In Memoriam" (1902)
Done in The Open (1902)
"Serenade" (1910)
Indispensable Information for Infants: Or Easy Entrance to Education (1921)
Operas
Dido and Aeneas (1892)
Watch Your Thirst: A Dry Opera in Three Acts (1923)
Do you know the names of any of the other hotels in the early days of Coulee City? My grandparents, John and Mary Kearns, ran a Hotel or boarding house there until 1897.
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