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Moonrise and Teton peaks, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, 2021.
For over 11,000 years, communities have thrived in the valley known as Jackson Hole.
Nomadic paleo-Indians first entered the Jackson Hole valley shortly after Pleistocene Ice Age glaciers retreated. They left behind tipi rings, fire pits and stone tools. With the approach of the harsh winters, indigenous people generally followed their prey out of the valley in search of milder weather.
The first Euro-American explorer who may have entered Jackson Hole was John Colter. He served as a member of the Lewis and Clark "Corps of Discovery" expedition, but he left the expedition in the fall of 1806 and traveled through this region in the winter of 1807-1808. Colter left no written record of his journeys. |
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