Apparently.

I just Googled Paul Kriley's obituary. He was a VERY local guy, having been born in 1925 about 15 miles north of Salmon in Kriley Gulch--apparently named after his family. "The great outdoors was always his favorite place, his family noted." He passed away in 2004, in Grand View, Idaho, a very small place southwest of Mountain Home.

He was 26 years younger than Elmer Keith. Have read enough other Keith writing to know that he often preferred to go hunting with younger guys as he grew older--which over the past decade or so have also decided was a good idea.


“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck