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‘Hush of the land’: Friendship stokes embers of Smoke Elser stories packing into The Bob Marshall Wilderness
March 2, 2024/
The Bob Marshall Wilderness welcomes visitors like a primordial librarian, offering stories spread across millions of acres of mountains.
Arnold “Smoke” Elser has spent his life learning those tales in the way they’re told — through footsteps and hoofprints and hoots of owls and creaks of trees. Along the way, Elser himself has become woven into some of those records, changing the landscape by testifying to its wonder.
“Hush of the Land”
