Rockwell Kent "Wilderness" Centennial Journal

ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 Part 10: Olson’s Final Years Oct. 18-21, 2019 ABOVE – Lars Matt Olson’s gravestone at Jackson Hole, Wyoming's Aspen Hill Cemetery located near the ski resort on Snow King Hill. Photos above and below by Seth DePasqual, who put some stones from a Kenai Lake beach on Olson's grave before he took this photo. BELOW – Olson’s grave with the town of Jackson Hole, Wyoming in the background. OLSON OF THE DEEP EXPERIENCE The stepping-stones are chancy to the second island…, So, we learn from Kent’s letter that Olson left Vermont and returned somewhere out West. But where did he end up, and whatever happened to him? One more mystery to solve.  In the 1980’s, while wandering through pages of the Seward Gateway , I found a notice of Olson’s death in the Jan. 5, 1923 issue – Olson’s body was found in an old cabin at Jackson Hole, Wyoming and he had be...