Late March 1922
En route back home from Europe, Cal spends several days in Washington lobbying. He delivers Cissy’s letter to Senator Warren and visits the headquarters of the Forest Service.
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March 10, 1922
While staying at Claridge’s Hotel in London, Cissy writes a letter of introduction for Cal to one of her Washington social acquaintances, the powerful Senator Francis E. Warren of Wyoming, who is chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. The letter asks Senator Warren to help Cal find his way through the Washington bureaucratic thicket so he can get Flat Creek Ranch as his homestead.
1920
Cissy writes her first newspaper story celebrating the election victory an all-women slate of candidates in Jackson, which made Jackson among the first municipalities in America with an all-women government. By some accounts, it was Cissy who inspired the six Jackson women to run for office. Cissy’s article appeared in the Omaha World-Herald, which was not part of the Chicago Tribune’s empire.
March 3, 1920
Cal officially establishes residence at the ranch and starts clearing stumps and cutting logs. Within two years he is running 25 cattle and horses.
Summer of 1918
Cissy returns to Jackson Hole, rents the White Grass Ranch, and hires Cal to be her ranch manager. One day Cal and Cissy ride up to see Cal’s secret place on upper Flat Creek. “Cissy thought it the most perfect place she had ever seen,” writes her biographer.
Summer and Fall of 1917
Cissy and Cal soon find themselves attracted to each other. Romantic evenings and long hunting trips ensue. Cissy is 38, Cal is 44.
Summer of 1917
A Chicago newspaper heiress and social celebrity, Eleanor “Cissy” Patterson, pulls into Jackson Hole on a horse-drawn wagon with her daughter Felicia and her French maid. An accomplished horsewoman and a big game hunter, Cissy settles in for a stay. Cissy is introduced as Countess Gizycka, a title she retains even though she is on the rebound from a disastrous marriage to philandering Russian count, Josef Gizycki. Her internationally publicized divorce from Gizycki is finalized a few months before her trip to Wyoming.
Around 1912
Cal goes to work as “head guide in charge of pack outfits” at the new Bar BC Ranch, which would become Jackson Hole’s most celebrated dude ranch. “I decided it was time to get respectable and go into dudin’,” he would allow.
February 10, 1905
Cal goes into court in Idaho and becomes a naturalized American citizen with the name Enoch Carrington. He swears before a court clerk that “I have behaved as a man of good moral character.”
About 1905
Despite his shady past, Cal gets on the federal payroll as an assistant forest ranger of the National Forest Service in Wyoming.