I started to write a story about an Wyoming elk hunt and I know just how all this Olympic stuff about the trail strikes the cynic who leaves his imagination home. The best of it is it’s all true. If there is any question in the minds of my readers as to its dominant power, they should have been along with the little party that started last May on an unfruitful effort to corral “Old Ephraim” with a moving picture camera. There was my old pal, Joe McAleenan, Colonel Harlow Brooks, M.D., who had just returned from two years in charge of the Medical Department of the Second Army in France; John Murgatroyd, the well-known taxidermist, and Dr. Leonard S. Sugden, the eminent Alaskan explorer, who, together with the humble scribe, were consigned to the tender mercies of that notorious little swashbuckler of a guide, Joe Jones, of Cody, Wyoming, than whom there is no more indefatigable and enthusiastic hunter, with a “heye like a heagle,” in all that glorious State. -Frothingham, Field and Stream, January 1920

Robert Frothingham, in this quote from an article he wrote for Field & Stream, titled “Trailing Grizzly Bear and Elk in Wyoming” describes… and lists its many party members, the central figures, McAleenan, Brooks, Murgatroyd, and Leonard S. Sugden, who… Joe Jones, along with his brother Monte… There are numerious articles like this one, written by Frothingham, McAleenan, and others [list some] which have given me, along with McAleenan’s books, insight into…

Parallel with a letter about the trip/or McAleenan’s book – 1919

1919 huning trip to the American Rockies and

Ambrose Means, Brooks, Murgatroyd, Joe Jones, Leonard Sugden

Began in Wyoming

https://archive.org/details/mopicwor40chal/page/n97/mode/2up?q=%22henry+berger%22+prizma

https://archive.org/details/cameracraft371930phot/page/n553/mode/2up?q=%22henry+berger%22+prizma

https://archive.org/details/fieldstreamv24n09192001/Field%20%26%20Stream%20v24n09%20%5B1920-01%5D/page/n5/mode/2up?q=%22Leonard+s.+Sugden%22

https://archive.org/details/movpicwor402movi/page/n339/mode/2up?q=%22Leonard+s.+Sugden%22

Parallel with a letter about the trip/or McAleenan’s book – Who is Joe Jones and Joe Magill

https://www.wyomingnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=WYPCE19140606-01.1.1&srpos=34&e=——-en-20–21–img-txIN%7CtxCO%7CtxTA-%22joe+magill%22——-0——

https://archive.org/details/sim_outdoor-life_1915-02_35_2/page/112/mode/2up

Here is to be found the typical Western life with all its embellishments. Joe Jones, the owner and master, is a character you meet once in a lifetime—a man possessed of unusual powers of endurance, well educated, a thoro sportsman, square and straight as you will find in many a day’s travel, and a true companion on any kind of an expedition. (Outdoor Life)

Joe Magill around 1847 or 48 

Born in County Tyrone, Ireland (today in Northern Ireland)

At the age of 38 he immigrated to the US and/or to Wyoming, became a cow puncher

Cofounded the town of Thermopolis

Elwin Roswell Sanborn (1869 – December 19, 1947) was the New York Zoological Society’s first official photographer, taking the position in 1899, not long after the Zoo’s opening (?) (NYT OBIT). Born in Dunkirk, NY, he studied art at the Art Students League (NYT OBIT). In additon to being a renouned photographer, he was a well respected illustrator praised for his illustrations of animals in the wild (NYT OBIT).

As the NYZS’s photographer, Sanborn created new techniques and even photographic equipment for capturing the animals (NYT OBIT). Much of his time was spend outside of the Zoo, taking photographs in the wild in places like the American west, Pelican Island, Florida, the Galapagos Island, and, of course, in the Canadian Rockies with the McAleenan hunting party (NYT OBIT).

https://blog.wcs.org/photo/2015/06/25/the-first-photographer-bronx-zoo-tbt/

Leonard Sugden (1873-1923) was a Scottish medical doctor who immigrated to Canada after serving in the British military during the First Sino-Japanese War. McAleenan wrote an obituary for the New York Times and Field and Stream