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Miss Ellen's Gallery in the inn's Dining Room
Explore Wyoming through the eyes of award-winning Wyoming artists. We showcase photographers Lee Bailey, Scott Copeland, Ken Kidder, Juan Laden, Mike McClure, and Sara Wiles; leather crafter Scott Goetz; watercolorists Sali Allard, Wyoma Jungck, and Laurie Sain; aspen woodworkers Sandy and Doug Lowinske; plank banjo maker Miss "V" the Gypsy Cowbelle, button holer Paul Bush, and the inn's own tatter, Barbara, offers greeting cards and bookmarks. We offer books written and signed by local writers and guests of the inn. Hamiltons of the World includes a segment about Hamilton City, Wyoming, written by us, the innkeepers. Other authors include: Betty Carpenter Pfaff, John Mionczynski, Geoffrey O'Gara, Sara Wiles (Sara's Arapaho Journeys won the 2012 High Plains Book Award), and Wyoming's Poet Laureate Patricia Frolander (Pat's Married Into It also won the 2012 High Plains Book Award). We offer South Pass City, a spring 2012 Arcadia book, by locals Susan Layman and Jon Lane, and 1,000 Places to See in the USA and Canada Before You Die, Patricia Schultz's New York Times' best seller, which highlights our inn. On August 22, 2013, Barbara's mystery novel Blood Atonement will be released, followed by Clear and Convincing Evidence in 2014. We also offer musical CDs produced by Miss "V" and Lee Bailey. The gallery surrounds historic artifacts: Miss Ellen's 11-foot-long plank dining table, an 1870s Army wood stove from Camp Stambaugh, and photographs of the inn's past. Local legend Gladys "Bobbi" Jenks's great nephew donated many of Bobbi's paintings to the Atlantic City Historical Society; those paintings are on loan to the gallery. Rich Boulette also loaned the gallery his personal collection of Bobbi's barn wood art, where Bobbi used artist's putty and local materials to create images of the region's historic gold mines and mills.
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