Rockwell Kent "Wilderness" Centennial Journal

ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018 Early to Mid-October 2018 – Part 1 As September ended and October progressed Kent had started to paint, but there was still much work for winter preparation. And many uncertainties still haunted him. On Oct. 9, 1918 – even though it poured and they worked inside -- Kent learned from Olson that the weather forecast looked good. The night before his fox didn’t eat, an indication of better weather. With bad weather, they ate heavily. With only a month and a half of firewood in stock -- today like every day, they cut more. Kent could feel the days getting colder and the snow dust on the mountains moved gradually down. “I painted toward evening,” he wrote, “and made two good sketches.” That night, too, Rockie finished his second book. He had read The Early Cave-Men by Katharine E. Dopp so he probably had just finished The Later Cave-Men . That evening Kent enjoyed the stars in a cl...