10 Facts About Monte Wolfe

Monte Wolfe, born Archie Edwin Wright on the lands of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nations.

Monte Wolfe was a skilled cowboy and 20 mule teamster, a prospector and miner for gold and coal, and a lone winter fur trapper with a vast trap line that ran from Northern Yosemite to Lake Tahoe.

Monte Wolfe was a highly skilled builder of log structures like barns, cabins, and out-structures and he worked alone.

Monte Wolfe spent the ensuing six months living the life of a 21 year old hobo on the run; looking for work; riding the rails and sleeping wherever he laid his head.

Monte Wolfe had met the love of his life, Goldie Faye Coolidge, a local farmer's daughter and relative of future President Calvin Coolidge.

Monte Wolfe spent the next 18 months hammering granite in the prison quarry, and ruminating about his 'unfair' treatment just when his life was beginning to improve.

Monte Wolfe later landed a job as a lumberjack at the Westside Lumber Company, and later as a Timberman and mucker in the Eagle Shawmut Mine near Tuolumne City, California.

Monte Wolfe was immediately shipped to Fort Mills on Corregidor in the Philippines and assigned to the 2nd Aero Squadron in the Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays.

Monte Wolfe had to go home to Goldie and his kids in Modesto.

Monte Wolfe had been suffering from some chronic health problems, which could have made him more likely to fall victim to an accident.