But it is also a kind of hyperreality of money-tens of thousands of acres and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of conservation easements-in what may be the world’s most unequal political jurisdiction. The landscape may have looked like wilderness to the caravanning tourists in $200,000 Sprinter vans and thousands more in athleisure who now flood Teton County year-round. It was a clear morning in the Tetons, and with binoculars it was possible to see all the way across the valley known, since prehistory, as one of the most secure and comfortable little basins in all of the Mountain West-named, for one of the first white trappers to winter there, Jackson’s Hole. The buffalo were grazing by the highway on the outskirts of the richest county in the richest country in the history of the world.
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