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Jackson Hole (originally called Jackson's Hole by mountain men) is a valley between the Gros Ventre and Teton mountain ranges in the U.S. state of Wyoming, near the border with Idaho, in Teton County. The term "hole" was used by early trappers, or mountain men, as a term for a large mountain valley.
He made several points about Jackson Hole's ecological importance (it contained the largest North American Elk herd in the nation and other unique Rocky Mountain wildlife like the sage grouse), its geological importance as the largest example of a fault-block formation in the US, and its historical importance as a landmark of the interaction ...
The town, often familiarly or mistakenly called Jackson Hole, derives its name from the valley in which it is located. [7] Jackson is a popular tourist destination due to its proximity to the ski resorts Jackson Hole Mountain, Snow King Mountain, and Grand Targhee, as well as Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park.
The district consists of a line of homestead complexes along the Jackson-Moran Road near the southeast corner of Grand Teton National Park, in the valley called Jackson Hole. The rural historic landscape's period of significance includes the construction of the Andy Chambers, T.A. Moulton and John Moulton farms from 1908 to the 1950s.
Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is a luxury enclave for some of America's wealthiest. The area is known for its extreme income inequality, with the top 1% earning vastly more.
Grand Teton National Park is a national park of the United States in northwestern Wyoming.At approximately 310,000 acres (1,300 km 2), the park includes the major peaks of the 40-mile-long (64 km) Teton Range as well as most of the northern sections of the valley known as Jackson Hole.
An older feature, Jackson Hole, is a basin that sits aside the range. The 2.5 billion year old metamorphic rocks that make up the east face of the Tetons are marine in origin and include some volcanic deposits. These same rocks are today buried deep inside Jackson Hole.
On Feb. 2, 1994, Sega released Sonic 3. Jackson's team was credited, but their boss was not. Buxer, Grigsby and Jones say Jackson pulled his name from the game — but not his music — because he was disappointed by how different the music sounded on Sega's console when compressed from that "high profile" sound to bleeps and bloops.