1930s and 1940s
Caught up in the tumult of publishing the Washington Times-Herald, Cissy ends her long summers in Jackson. “The Countess’s Place” on Flat Creek is seldom seen by anyone except Cissy’s ranch hands.
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About 1929
Cissy has a piano shipped from Chicago for Saturday night dances in the Lodge, where the piano is still in use. It is hauled up the road on an ox cart.
Winter of 1923-24
Cissy asks her closest friend in Jackson, Rose Crabtree, to keep an eye on her interests at Flat Creek while Cal is away during the winter. Rose, an innkeeper in Jackson, is one of the celebrated slate of a half-dozen tough-minded Jackson Hole women elected in the early 1920s to run the town.
February 1923
Cal sells Cissy the ranch for $5,000 (estimated to be about $63,000 at today’s prices, after adjusting for inflation). He would remain her close friend and hunting guide for some years.
November 20, 1922
Senator Warren writes to Cissy at the St. Regis Hotel in New York, saying “Carrington case has been approved for patent.”
Summer 1922
The paperwork moves from desk to desk in the bureaucracy. A local forest ranger writes that he’s not against the homestead, even though Cal’s cultivation “has consisted almost entirely of harvesting wild hay.”