A LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY LADIES
Spanning the generations, women have planted themselves here among the cactus and pine. They’ve forged unconventional paths west — hunting and harvesting stories worth remembering. Today, they are still heeding the call of their heritage, bravely shedding all that is frivolous as they head deeper into the backcountry. They pursue that which will outlive them, in faithful stewardship of the tender shoots of conservation.
This league of extraordinary women have been tested and tried in the high lonesome; blooming amidst the rugged terrain with tenacity and grace that has changed the landscape on which they reside. They are too many to name — those women who have led the way — but each month we aim to share their stories. These are Women of the West.
CHRISTY SING
WYOMING
Christy Sing’s story began in the Arkansas Ozarks. The now-respected hat maker was ushered from a happy life between the Appalachian and the Rocky Mountains and into uncharted territory, with no notion of the grand adventure that was about to take place west of the divide.
“My story is unique, and it’s hard for people to digest because I felt called by God to do most of the big, important stuff in my life, including moving,” Christy said. “I was about to step onto an elevator in a hotel in New York City. When I heard it as clear as anything I’d ever heard: ‘You’ll move to Jackson Hole, Wyoming by January 1st’,” explained Christy, “a message out of the blue that plucked me right out of my life. I was never enamored with the West like a lot of people were then, but He said this is what you will do, so I did.”
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