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50 years ago, the literary world shook

Most Americans have heard of Ernest Hemingway. And, even now, 50 years after his death, many can say they have read one of the Nobel Prize-winning author's short stories, novellas or novels. They may have heard of "For Whom the Bell Tolls"—the acclaimed novel about finding love in the ruin and violence of the Spanish Civil War—and that Hemingway liked to hunt, fish and drink.

But, one might venture to say, most Americans do not know that "Papa"—as he was known to those close to him—took his last steps, his last breaths and his last sips of wine in the shadow of the mountains surrounding Ketchum. On July 2, 1961, in the front foyer of Hemingway's house along the Big Wood River just north of town, the writer's grand adventure came to an end.

Papa discovers Idaho

Ernest Hemingway first came to the Sun Valley area in September 1939. He had been invited to stay at the new Sun Valley Lodge as a guest after Gene Van Guilder—the publicist for the fledgling resort—determined the author and outdoorsman would enjoy the hunting in the area and might generate some good press.

In those early years, Hemingway was at a high point in his writing career, enjoying a certain degree of fame as he worked on "For Whom the Bell Tolls," which some critics have hailed as his best full-length novel.

Hemingway immediately met a band of friends in Sun Valley. The group included Sun Valley Resort's chief guide, Taylor Williams, resort photographer Lloyd Arnold, Arnold's wife, Tillie Arnold, and eventually, a young Picabo rancher named Bud Purdy.

In the fall of 1939, Hemingway stayed with his girlfriend, writer and journalist Martha Gellhorn, in Suite 206 of the Sun Valley Lodge, which he soon dubbed "Glamour House." Hemingway worked diligently on "For Whom the Bell Tolls," and soon became enamored with duck hunting at Silver Creek, near Picabo, and pheasant hunting at points south, near Shoshone, Dietrich and Gooding.

Purdy, who still lives and works in Picabo, said he got to know Papa in 1940. They became hunting buddies.

"He was a macho guy," Purdy said in an April interview. "But he liked the guides and the common people, not the money people."

Purdy said Papa liked Idaho in part because the landscape reminded him of one of his favorite places in the world—Spain.

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