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An ode to Spear-O-Wigwam: Novelist Ann Patchett (Bel Canto) wasn't a dude ranch gal. But one trip to Wyoming, and she was hooked on mountains, horses, and a bunny cake.

Publication: Sunset
Publication Date: 01-JUN-09 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: An ode to Spear-O-Wigwam: Novelist Ann Patchett (Bel Canto) wasn't a dude ranch gal. But one trip to Wyoming, and she was hooked on mountains, horses, and a bunny cake.(Postcard)

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ERNEST HEMINGWAY arrived at the Spear-O-Wigwam Ranch in 1928. He was still in his 20s, before anyone had started calling him Papa, though it was about the time the nickname became appropriate. He had just had a son in Missouri. His wife had had a difficult delivery and wasn't well. The baby was crying. It must have been a lot of bother. And so the Great White Hunter packed up all the pages he had of A Farewell to Arms and took off in search of quieter, cooler climes in which to write the final chapters.

He found what he was looking for at a guest ranch in the Bighorn Mountains of northern Wyoming. He rented a little cabin made out of lodgepole pine that sat beside a fast-running stream full of trout. There he holed up drinking whiskey and finishing his novel.

I am a novelist myself, and novelists can never get enough of these kinds of stories. I am both repulsed and fascinated by a writer who could...

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