Ernest Hemingway in the Yellowstone High Country: A Complete Account of Hemingway's Work and Adventures in Montana and Wyoming by Chris Warren
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Abstract
Reviewed by: Ernest Hemingway in the Yellowstone High Country: A Complete Account of Hemingway's Work and Adventures in Montana and Wyoming by Chris Warren Joy Landeira Chris Warren. Ernest Hemingway in the Yellowstone High Country: A Complete Account of Hemingway's Work and Adventures in Montana and Wyoming. Riverbend Publishing, 2019. 169 p. When folks ask me about RMMLA, I describe it as the Rocky Mountain region's largest scholarly research organization for all languages and literatures including English. Not only is it our region's largest in terms of number of members, but of the six regional divisions of the national Modern Language Association, it encompasses the greatest geographical territory—north to south from Canada to Mexico and east to west from Colorado to Nevada. All the states in our vast region are part of the Rocky Mountain chain, plus one city, El Paso, the only part of Texas with a mountain. The two numbers of this year's volume 76 of our academic journal, Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, comprise our largest annual volume ever published. The Chinese Feature Issue 76.1 and this Issue 76.2 end our anniversary year with feature articles and reviews on Afghan, American, British, Chinese, French, German, Indian, Latin American, and Spanish literature from all time periods, medieval through contemporary, highlighting that our membership and the scope of our studies is international, interdisciplinary and spans centuries. This past year, 2022, we celebrated the 75th anniversary of our founding in [End Page 356] Albuquerque, NM. The masterful convention Keynote by Wayne Catan on Hemingway's Impact portrayed this "man of the world" journalist and creative writer who traveled, observed and wrote about the Italian front in WWI, France's cosmopolitan Lost Generation, Spain's Civil War and bull fights, African safaris, Key West and Cuban fishing—and won world renowned Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. Yet, for all his worldly experience, a significant part of Hemingway's early formation as a writer and adventurer took place here in the heart of our Rocky Mountain region in Wyoming and Montana, what Ralph Glidden termed "the Yellowstone High Country." True to his subtitle, A Complete Account of Hemingway's Work and Adventures in Montana and Wyoming, Chris Warren begins with Hemingway's first visit to the Sheridan, Wyoming area in 1928. There he completed his first novel, A Farewell to Arms, and met Owen Wister, author of The Virginian, in Shell, Wyoming and drove around with him shooting prairie dogs (27, 35). After 1930, Hemingway's visits were centered on the northeast boundary of Yellowstone Park, from Cooke City, Montana to the L—T (Read "L Bar T" Ranch), where he wrote 350 pages of Death in the Afternoon. A rustic map details 20 key spots, from the Yellowstone River, where Hemingway was the first driver to ford Clark's Fork in his 1928 Ford Model A "Roadster Coupe" (sic) in 1930, then returned in the summers of '32,' 36, '38 and '39. A little more cartographic precision is needed, since page 155 states, "Cooke City sits ten miles to the west of the L—T Ranch," but the map on pages 18-19 locates Cooke City (# 20) east of the L—T (# 8). The carefully researched volume incorporates fascinating photos from the Sheridan County Fulmer Public Library, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and the Patrick Hemingway Collection at Princeton's Firestone Library and never-before-seen views from townsfolk who hunted and fished with him. This well-documented study draws upon a wealth of biographies (especially Carlos Baker's) and Hemingway's prolific correspondence, particularly with Scribner's editor, Max Perkins. One of the biographical strengths of Warren's account is his identification of locals and locales that serve as prototypes for Hemingway's characters and settings. The introductory vignettes of "The Players," profiling Ernest's family and area residents, and Appendix III, describing towns and businesses, and Appendix II, "The Yellowstone High Country in the Work" offer useful connections [End Page 357] between real people and places and their fictional counterparts and derivatives. Robert Jordan, protagonist of For Whom the Bell Tolls, is a Spanish teacher from Red Lodge...
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.112 | 0.050 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".