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w w w . d i s t i n c t l y m o n t a n a . c o m 39 it is out of sight. As the two ride away from the lake, readers are given this exchange:"I know why you did that with the old gun, Bob," Chub said. "Well, then we don't have to talk about it," he had said. ey never talked about it and that was the end of Grandfather's sidearms..." LATER YEARS For Whom the Bell Tolls was released in October 1940. Hemingway married Martha Gellhorn at the Union Pacific Railroad dining room in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in December 1940. When Martha and her friends Lloyd and Tillie Arnold read the new novel, they suspected that Hemingway's father had killed himself. After confirming their assumption, Hemingway spoke of his "common sense view of suicide" and calmly explained to his new wife how he would go about it, with a shotgun, using a toe to pull the trigger. Hemingway was forced to think about death when F. Scott Fitzgerald died that December, and Max Perkins, Hemingway's friend and editor at Scribner's since 1924, died in 1941. Pauline Hemingway died in 1951. Hemingway's marriage to Martha Gellhorn ended in 1945, and he married journalist Mary Welsh in 1946. He never returned to the Clark's Fork Valley or Cooke City but this "good country" stayed in his heart and in his work. In Across the River and into the Trees, Colonel Cantwell hails from Montana and at one point argues that Cooke City is the toughest town in the world. In Islands in the Stream, protagonist omas Hudson also hails from Montana, and he implores his writer friend to head to his ranch for inspiration. e "Tom character" would reappear in "A Man of the World," the last story Hemingway published in his lifetime and it was set in Cooke City. In True at First Light, published after his death, he would refer to the General Store in Cooke City, from where he had mailed so much of his work to Max Perkins during the thirties. Even in his later years after much deterioration and electric shock therapy, Hemingway's heart remained in the Yellowstone High Country. In 1961, less than a month before his death, Charlie Scribner sent Hemingway a copy of a flyfishing guide to Yellowstone. Hemingway replied that the book "set him dreaming of the old days at the Nordquist ranch beside the Clark's Fork of the Yellowstone." Ernest Hemingway first entered the Yellowstone High Country in the summer of 1930. He left for the last time in the fall of 1939. He was at his best over those years, as a hunter, as a fisherman, as a family man, but most of all, as a writer. Cooke City in 1930 Jennifer Finn MSW, LCSW, OSW-C 406.690.3717 Parkhill Plaza Counseling Specialties include, but not limited to: (specific to provider) Chronic Illness Grief & Loss Women's Issues Trauma EMDR PTSD Postpartum Codependency Depression Anxiety Abuse Relational Betrayal Couples Families Adolescents Online Sessions 1645 Parkhill Drive, Suite 1 • Billings, Montana • 59102 • By appointment only For more information visit individual profiles on Psychologytoday.com Dawn Dungan MS, LCPC-S 406.876.2164 Teresa Kennedy MS, CT, LCPC 406.671.6531 Patti Barkell MS, PCLC 406.672.2914

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