Previously Published Forrest Fenn / TTOTC Stories

[Jenny]

Page 59, in TTOTC, is the chapter- Looking for Lewis and Clark- here is as it appeared in 2008:

www.bozemandailychronicle.com/community_notes/looking-for-lewis-and-clark/article_bee76a8b-7de5-590e-9080-7201f5a6077d.html?



The updated version is now in the book, and also his website:

www.oldsantafetradingco.com/blog/from-my-memoir-the-thrill-of-the-chase?

[Jenny]

Page 73 in TTOTC is the chapter- My War for Me-

My War for me (2006)

www.85fis.doncondra.org/Forrest%20Fenn%20Story.htm

[zaphod73491]

Here are all the early versions of stories that appeared in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle:

("Grandma" is Miss Mary, and "Frosty" is Old Fred):

www.bozemandailychronicle.com/community_notes/boyhood-memories-of-west-yellowstone-long-ago/article_def8253e-315f-5062-b5f1-aca8bb3a651b.html

TFTW story (Chapter 19) about the Dude motel, early version:

www.bozemandailychronicle.com/community_notes/how-the-dude-came-to-west-yellowstone/article_39608806-48ee-5656-afa7-28871c9213c3.html

A very interesting Letter to the Editor from West Yellowstone resident and retired librarian Jan Dunbar that also has some corrections to Forrest's recollections:

www.bozemandailychronicle.com/opinions/letters_to_editor/to-the-editor/article_d89dcea0-8937-584d-9731-74557e5e352b.html

Early version of the "Flywater" chapter in TTOTC:

www.bozemandailychronicle.com/opinions/columnists/memories-of-the-past-enrich-our-present/article_c682c24f-bc3f-5167-89d2-bee111f540db.html

And finally the "Looking for Lewis and Clark" chapter of TTOTC that Jenny already linked above:

Link: www.bozemandailychronicle.com/community_notes/looking-for-lewis-and-clark/article_bee76a8b-7de5-590e-9080-7201f5a6077d.html

[harrytruman]

The provenance probably doesn't matter, but the stories searchers tend to associate with the Bozeman Daily Chronicle first appeared in print in the West Yellowstone News.

The Chronicle picked them up later (and still hosts them online, obviously).

(But for those who argue that TTOTC was just a little book written only for Forrest's family and friends in Santa Fe, because "obviously" he hid the chest in northern New Mexico, it might be worth thinking about why Forrest published these stories in West Yellowstone in 2008, about fifteen years after he decided to hide a treasure chest, about thirteen or fourteen years after he started writing the poem, about a year and a half before he went ahead and hid the chest, and about two years before he decided to write that little book.)

[goldilocks]

The Odious Soul did a comparison on her YouTube channel:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d-qKyaJLUA