Wapiti Wilderness

For over 37 years, Margaret and Olaus Murie made their home in the mountainous wilderness of the Tetons, where Olaus Murie conducted his famous studies of the American elk: the wapiti. Through these years their home was almost a nature-conservation shrine to thousands of Americans interested in outdoors, animals, and nature. Wapiti Wilderness, begun by Mrs. Murie as a sequel to her book Two in the Far North, which told of the Muries' life and expeditions in Alaska, became a collaborative ef...