While reading about a women who homesteaded in Wyoming with her two daughters in 1930's I came across this poem. I think it reflects how many people in Wyoming feel about their land.
Quote:
Fortified
I can never be unhappy again!
Life may cause me to suffer once more,
But it cannot make me unhappy.
For I have given my happiness
Into the keeping
Of a bit of sky,
A bare hillside,
And clouds that pass all day.
I look at them and know I am fortified.
- Neal Gallatin
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The poem is written by Neal Gallatin, apparantly an early Wyoming poet. I have not been able to find much else out about this author except this reference indicating that Neal Gallatin was a Wyoming poet.
I found another reference indicating the author (he? she?) had written 3 letters to Braithwaite, William Stanley, at Harvard around 1921.
Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962. Papers: Guide.
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Wyoming poet Neal Gallatin
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