Rodello Hunter - 1920
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Campbell County High School, Gillette, Wyoming
I. Biography
Rodello Hunter born in Provo, Utah, on March 23, 1920. She was one of the daughters in a very large family. Living in a Mormon home she based some of her books of growing up in a family such as hers. In 1959, she met and married her husband, James Calkin. He worked with her by editing a magazine that she was working on. Hunter and James lived for a time in Jackson Hole, Wyoming; here she wrote about her experiences of the Jackson Hole area. She now lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with her dogs.
II. Literary works
Rodello is the author of A House of Many Rooms, Wyoming Wife, A Daughter of Zion, and The Soul of Jackson Hole . She also writes article stories in the Reader's Digest Book Club and in other local and national magazines. She was an editor for the Utah Fish and Game Magazine for many years. Rodello Hunter was influenced by her environment. She wrote about growing up in a Mormon family, about the interests of her husband, and about where she has lived in her life.
Complete Works
Aspen Marooney
The Backslider, Beyond the River
An Environment for Murder
The Evening and the Morning
In Our Lovely Desert
A Little Lower than the Angels
Love Chains
My New Life
Parting the Veil
Secrets Keep
The Tabernacle Bar
Tending the Garden
Washed by a Wave of Wind
The Way We Live
Where Nothing is Long Ago
IV. References
A Daughter of Zion, Feb. 25, 2000,
http://www.signaturebooks.com/cgi-bin/signat/daughter.htmlThe Papers of Rodello Hunter, Collections MS Register 28, Feb. 25, 2000,
http://www.usu.edu/~specol/manuscript/collms28.html
This essay was submitted by a student of Nathel Coca, a teacher at Campbell County High School in Gillette, Wyoming.