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March 1901

Riding around Jackson, Cal finds a hidden valley just 15 miles above town that is populated only by moose, elk, mountain sheep and beavers. Tucked away on upper Flat Creek, it is the perfect spot for hiding rustled horses. “I could see the sheriff a’coming either way,” he would explain. He moved into an abandoned trapper’s cabin at what would become Flat Creek Ranch.

Now a lanky cowpoke, Cal rides into Jackson Hole for the first time.

Wyoming becomes a state.

Cal can’t stand his Idaho foster father. “When I was sixteen, and big enough, I beat the hell out of the sonovabitch and ran away,” Cal once said.

At the age of five, Cal enters the United States, apparently in the custody of Swedish Mormon Missionaries bound for Utah

The man who would homestead the Flat Creek Ranch, Cal Carrington, is born in Sweden. By some accounts, his birth name is Enoch Kavington Julin, and his parents are a shoemaker and his wife.

Cal has the place surveyed, all 141 acres of it. His aim is to make the ranch his homestead and thus gain title to own the land. The ranch is surrounded on all sides by the Teton National Forest.

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