My mother first came to the valley in 1928, and she and her family spent all their summers at the Whitegrass until WWII. They built a cabin there for themselves, known by her maiden name as the Laidlaw cabin. After the Whitegrass closed, my brother Tim bought the old Laidlaw cabin and had it moved down to parcel C, where it forms the center of his current cabin.

My parents honeymooned in the valley in 1946, staying at the Wort Hotel, where my father lost their honeymoon money gambling!  After a few summers at the R Lazy S, they bought a small parcel on the flats with the Bettys and the Circle H and the Hartgraves (my mother had known Ted Hartgrave since she was a little girl). My generation, including my four older brothers and me, all spent our summers growing up on that piece, directly across the river from where the 4B is now.

Then in 1979, because of ever expanding numbers of in-laws and grandchildren, my parents bought the current 4B, then part of the Jackson Hole Ranch. They traded the old cabin on the Hartgrave flats as part of the purchase price.  My mother, before her death in 1992, spent 6 months of the year at the ranch  - she loved the valley more than anything on earth, and we were the lucky beneficiaries of that love!

Since her death, the ranch has been full of family and friends, and magical and unmatched times. The five of us siblings were last all there together for a hilarious reunion in 2007.

- Moira Mumma, Malcolm’s daughter