Comments on: Roger W. Hollander, Irma Lake, and “Buffalo Bill” Gates http://susijohnston.com/2010/03/roger-w-hollander-and-lake-irma-ranch/ The Sleeping Tiger on the Island of Bali blogs about interiors, architecture Indonesian arts, textiles, and life as it is lived Thu, 19 Apr 2012 04:12:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Phila McDaniel http://susijohnston.com/2010/03/roger-w-hollander-and-lake-irma-ranch/comment-page-1/#comment-10824 Phila McDaniel Sat, 18 Jun 2011 20:55:44 +0000 http://susijohnston.com/?p=1816#comment-10824 Dear Susi, PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF THIS HAS BEEN SENT Thank you so much for putting this wonderful tribute out for Roger\'s friends. I am the one who took Roger to Guizhou for the first time and helped him to identify some of the mystery textiles from Guizhou that he had previously collected. Later he went to Eastern Tibet with my research group and had a great time there as well. I have known for some time about the accident and the sale of the ranch but have not had an address to communicate directly with Roger as I wanted to do. Can you please provide that address, so that I can send him some get well messages and tell him about my newest research ? I would also like to know where his fine collection is housed and who is in charge of caring for it. I am so sorry that we have never met personally. You sound like someone I should know. You may have heard about some of my lifelong travels in remote areas of China, Tibet and southeast Asia. I started the collection from Guizhou and Yunnan quite some time ago at Mingei International Museum in San Diego and we have had seven exhibitons in other museums and hopefully more to come. The huge exhibition \"Silver and Silk\" is still being talked about but only on fourth of the material has been exhibited. I have written a great deal in magazines and the \"Silver and Silk\" book and video, contributed to the new Berg Publication of the ten volume encyclopedia of world costume and most recently an article in the new Textiles Asia magazine that explains what I know about the Golock clans in eastern Tibet. I plan to write about all the various clans and sub groups. I own East West Expeditions Travel company. We recently changed our name from East West Tours becuae Expeditions fits better as to what we really do in the extreme rural areas. I will be departing July 3 on our last big research trip and will return on August 14. In 2012 we will be out there one more time to finish a documentary film and some other objectives. We take people on these excursions by interview. I just returned from Guizhou and was prepared to be disappointed by the changes taking place among the tribal groups with the advent of freeways, factories and dams destroying ancient villages. I was however amazed to find quite a few groups living as they did 300 years ago in the high mountain areas - undisturbed by the 21st century. Now I am planning a special tour in 2012 in the northwest part of Guizhou and the southeast portion of Yunnan with the vice general manager of Guizhou Province and we will visit more remote tribal groups that are hidden from the general tourist routes and are very remote. I am taking people by invitation only. If you know of anyone who would like to go with us in 2012, you may give them my email and I will reply. It is eastwesttours@hotmail.com. My address is East West Expeditions 40485 Murrieta Hot Springs Rd. #213 Murrieta, CA 92563. Phone is 951-551-1928 We are updating our website. Roger had invited me many times to visti the ranch, but sadly, I did not get that chance before the tragic accident. Please give Roger my love if you talk to him soon. With appreciation, Phila McDaniel Dear Susi,
PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF THIS HAS BEEN SENT
Thank you so much for putting this wonderful tribute out for Roger\’s friends. I am the one who took Roger to Guizhou for the first time and helped him to identify some of the mystery textiles from Guizhou that he had previously collected. Later he went to Eastern Tibet with my research group and had a great time there as well. I have known for some time about the accident and the sale of the ranch but have not had an address to communicate directly with Roger as I wanted to do. Can you please provide that address, so that I can send him some get well messages and tell him about my newest research ? I would also like to know where his fine collection is housed and who is in charge of caring for it. I am so sorry that we have never met personally. You sound like someone I should know. You may have heard about some of my lifelong travels in remote areas of China, Tibet and southeast Asia. I started the collection from Guizhou and Yunnan quite some time ago at Mingei International Museum in San Diego and we have had seven exhibitons in other museums and hopefully more to come. The huge exhibition \"Silver and Silk\" is still being talked about but only on fourth of the material has been exhibited. I have written a great deal in magazines and the \"Silver and Silk\" book and video, contributed to the new Berg Publication of the ten volume encyclopedia of world costume and most recently an article in the new Textiles Asia magazine that explains what I know about the Golock clans in eastern Tibet. I plan to write about all the various clans and sub groups. I own East West Expeditions Travel company. We recently changed our name from East West Tours becuae Expeditions fits better as to what we really do in the extreme rural areas. I will be departing July 3 on our last big research trip and will return on August 14. In 2012 we will be out there one more time to finish a documentary film and some other objectives. We take people on these excursions by interview. I just returned from Guizhou and was prepared to be disappointed by the changes taking place among the tribal groups with the advent of freeways, factories and dams destroying ancient villages. I was however amazed to find quite a few groups living as they did 300 years ago in the high mountain areas – undisturbed by the 21st century. Now I am planning a special tour in 2012 in the northwest part of Guizhou and the southeast portion of Yunnan with the vice general manager of Guizhou Province and we will visit more remote tribal groups that are hidden from the general tourist routes and are very remote. I am taking people by invitation only. If you know of anyone who would like to go with us in 2012, you may give them my email and I will reply. It is eastwesttours@hotmail.com.
My address is East West Expeditions
40485 Murrieta Hot Springs Rd. #213
Murrieta, CA 92563.
Phone is 951-551-1928
We are updating our website.
Roger had invited me many times to visti the ranch, but sadly, I did not get that chance before the tragic accident. Please give Roger my love if you talk to him soon.

With appreciation,
Phila McDaniel

]]> By: Phila McDaniel http://susijohnston.com/2010/03/roger-w-hollander-and-lake-irma-ranch/comment-page-1/#comment-10822 Phila McDaniel Sat, 18 Jun 2011 20:51:32 +0000 http://susijohnston.com/?p=1816#comment-10822 Dear Susi, Thank you so much for putting this wonderful tribute out for Roger's friends. I am the one who took Roger to Guizhou for the first time and helped him to identify some of the mystery textiles from Guizhou that he had previously collected. Later he went to Eastern Tibet with my research group and had a great time there as well. I have known for some time about the accident and the sale of the ranch but have not had an address to communicate directly with Roger as I wanted to do. Can you please provide that address, so that I can send him some get well messages and tell him about my newest research ? I would also like to know where his fine collection is housed and who is in charge of caring for it. I am so sorry that we have never met personally. You sound like someone I should know. You may have heard about some of my lifelong travels in remote areas of China, Tibet and southeast Asia. I started the collection from Guizhou and Yunnan quite some time ago at Mingei International Museum in San Diego and we have had seven exhibitons in other museums and hopefully more to come. The huge exhibition "Silver and Silk" is still being talked about but only on fourth of the material has been exhibited. I have written a great deal in magazines and the "Silver and Silk" book and video, contributed to the new Berg Publication of the ten volume encyclopedia of world costume and most recently an article in the new Textiles Asia magazine that explains what I know about the Golock clans in eastern Tibet. I plan to write about all the various clans and sub groups. I own East West Expeditions Travel company. We recently changed our name from East West Tours becuae Expeditions fits better as to what we really do in the extreme rural areas. I will be departing July 3 on our last big research trip and will return on August 14. In 2012 we will be out there one more time to finish a documentary film and some other objectives. We take people on these excursions by interview. I just returned from Guizhou and was prepared to be disappointed by the changes taking place among the tribal groups with the advent of freeways, factories and dams destroying ancient villages. I was however amazed to find quite a few groups living as they did 300 years ago in the high mountain areas - undisturbed by the 21st century. Now I am planning a special tour in 2012 in the northwest part of Guizhou and the southeast portion of Yunnan with the vice general manager of Guizhou Province and we will visit more remote tribal groups that are hidden from the general tourist routes and are very remote. I am taking people by invitation only. If you know of anyone who would like to go with us in 2012, you may give them my email and I will reply. It is eastwesttours@hotmail.com. My address is East West Expeditions 40485 Murrieta Hot Springs Rd. #213 Murrieta, CA 92563. Phone is 951-551-1928 We are updating our website. Roger had invited me many times to visti the ranch, but sadly, I did not get that chance before the tragic accident. Please give Roger my love if you talk to him soon. With appreciation, Phila McDaniel Dear Susi,
Thank you so much for putting this wonderful tribute out for Roger’s friends. I am the one who took Roger to Guizhou for the first time and helped him to identify some of the mystery textiles from Guizhou that he had previously collected. Later he went to Eastern Tibet with my research group and had a great time there as well. I have known for some time about the accident and the sale of the ranch but have not had an address to communicate directly with Roger as I wanted to do. Can you please provide that address, so that I can send him some get well messages and tell him about my newest research ? I would also like to know where his fine collection is housed and who is in charge of caring for it. I am so sorry that we have never met personally. You sound like someone I should know. You may have heard about some of my lifelong travels in remote areas of China, Tibet and southeast Asia. I started the collection from Guizhou and Yunnan quite some time ago at Mingei International Museum in San Diego and we have had seven exhibitons in other museums and hopefully more to come. The huge exhibition “Silver and Silk” is still being talked about but only on fourth of the material has been exhibited. I have written a great deal in magazines and the “Silver and Silk” book and video, contributed to the new Berg Publication of the ten volume encyclopedia of world costume and most recently an article in the new Textiles Asia magazine that explains what I know about the Golock clans in eastern Tibet. I plan to write about all the various clans and sub groups. I own East West Expeditions Travel company. We recently changed our name from East West Tours becuae Expeditions fits better as to what we really do in the extreme rural areas. I will be departing July 3 on our last big research trip and will return on August 14. In 2012 we will be out there one more time to finish a documentary film and some other objectives. We take people on these excursions by interview. I just returned from Guizhou and was prepared to be disappointed by the changes taking place among the tribal groups with the advent of freeways, factories and dams destroying ancient villages. I was however amazed to find quite a few groups living as they did 300 years ago in the high mountain areas – undisturbed by the 21st century. Now I am planning a special tour in 2012 in the northwest part of Guizhou and the southeast portion of Yunnan with the vice general manager of Guizhou Province and we will visit more remote tribal groups that are hidden from the general tourist routes and are very remote. I am taking people by invitation only. If you know of anyone who would like to go with us in 2012, you may give them my email and I will reply. It is eastwesttours@hotmail.com.
My address is East West Expeditions
40485 Murrieta Hot Springs Rd. #213
Murrieta, CA 92563.
Phone is 951-551-1928
We are updating our website.
Roger had invited me many times to visti the ranch, but sadly, I did not get that chance before the tragic accident. Please give Roger my love if you talk to him soon.

With appreciation,
Phila McDaniel

]]> By: Hello Susi http://susijohnston.com/2010/03/roger-w-hollander-and-lake-irma-ranch/comment-page-1/#comment-10516 Hello Susi Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:43:36 +0000 http://susijohnston.com/?p=1816#comment-10516 Susi, My Great Grandfather was the ranch foreman for W.R. Coe owner of the Carter Mtn Ranch which included the Irma Lake Lodge.. One of the finest places in the world!! I am trying to contact Roger, if you know how that may be possible, please let me know.. With Kindest Regards, Daren Singer 1409 Rumsey Avenue Cody, WY 82414 307 587-8004 Susi, My Great Grandfather was the ranch foreman for W.R. Coe owner of the Carter Mtn Ranch which included the Irma Lake Lodge.. One of the finest places in the world!! I am trying to contact Roger, if you know how that may be possible, please let me know..
With Kindest Regards,
Daren Singer
1409 Rumsey Avenue
Cody, WY 82414
307 587-8004

]]> By: Laurie (Kukachka) Smyrl http://susijohnston.com/2010/03/roger-w-hollander-and-lake-irma-ranch/comment-page-1/#comment-10352 Laurie (Kukachka) Smyrl Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:20:01 +0000 http://susijohnston.com/?p=1816#comment-10352 Susi, any word on how Rodger is doing these days? I would love to hear from him. Thanks, Laurie (Kukachka) Smyrl Susi, any word on how Rodger is doing these days? I would love to hear from him.
Thanks, Laurie (Kukachka) Smyrl

]]> By: Susi http://susijohnston.com/2010/03/roger-w-hollander-and-lake-irma-ranch/comment-page-1/#comment-9836 Susi Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:50:36 +0000 http://susijohnston.com/?p=1816#comment-9836 Thanks for your wonderful comments, Laurie! Thanks for your wonderful comments, Laurie!

]]> By: Laurie (Kukachka) Smyrl http://susijohnston.com/2010/03/roger-w-hollander-and-lake-irma-ranch/comment-page-1/#comment-9835 Laurie (Kukachka) Smyrl Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:54:37 +0000 http://susijohnston.com/?p=1816#comment-9835 Roger, you were always a class act! Even when you decorated Mike's car after the wedding. He hated it ... I loved it. Laurie Kukachka Smyrl Roger, you were always a class act! Even when you decorated Mike’s car after the wedding. He hated it … I loved it.
Laurie Kukachka Smyrl

]]> By: Laurie (Kukachka) Smyrl http://susijohnston.com/2010/03/roger-w-hollander-and-lake-irma-ranch/comment-page-1/#comment-9834 Laurie (Kukachka) Smyrl Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:53:07 +0000 http://susijohnston.com/?p=1816#comment-9834 Susi, thank you for the wonderful story and pictures of Roger's life at the ranch. What a beautiful setting for this wonderful man and his outstanding collections. I knew Roger's family and worked for Roger back in the 1970's. We had lost touch many years ago and I had often wondered where he went after leaving Minneapolis. By all appearances he had a wonderful home filled with friends .... and, of course, good wine. If ever you get the chance please tell him hello and I pray for his full recovery. I must admit to a good chuckle when I saw the pictures of his kitchen! It so reminded me of his office ... always a mess but full of amazing items. Susi, thank you for the wonderful story and pictures of Roger’s life at the ranch. What a beautiful setting for this wonderful man and his outstanding collections. I knew Roger’s family and worked for Roger back in the 1970′s. We had lost touch many years ago and I had often wondered where he went after leaving Minneapolis. By all appearances he had a wonderful home filled with friends …. and, of course, good wine. If ever you get the chance please tell him hello and I pray for his full recovery. I must admit to a good chuckle when I saw the pictures of his kitchen! It so reminded me of his office … always a mess but full of amazing items.

]]> By: Thomas Murray http://susijohnston.com/2010/03/roger-w-hollander-and-lake-irma-ranch/comment-page-1/#comment-9583 Thomas Murray Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:04:38 +0000 http://susijohnston.com/?p=1816#comment-9583 This is a lovely tribute to a fabulous man, Roger Hollander, nothing less than an "across the board genius," from technology to the humanities, who loved Life so much that he survived an accident no one else would have...As an update, Roger has made tremendous strides in his recovery, thanks to the support of modern medicine, his family, and friends like Susi Johnston! Now that the ranch is sold, there is no security reason not to show a photo (that you may have, Susi) of Roger's temperature controlled textile collection room chock-a-block with rolls of the greatest Asian textiles...I joked with him about how he must of misinterpreted when he heard the other gentleman cowboys speaking around the bar at Buffalo Bill's Irma Hotel in Cody, Wyoming, when he heard them say they collect Indian textiles...they meant Navajo blankets, de rigueur adornment for Ranches in the Rockies...but Roger always was a contrarian, and that thanks to turning East at the Fork, he created the greatest collection of Indian Trade Cloths in the Western World. Susi Johnston helped him achieve that, for which she is too shy to mention, but I will. And with that photo of Susi about to dive in Irma Lake, I sure know why the trout were biting the next time we went down to the water not long after, hoping to nibble a nymph no doubt... but getting instead Danny Shaffer, Tony Hazledine of Hali magazine and moi, no doubt less tasty morsels. We were brought to the "secret spots" by guide Roger at the tiller of the boat, bringing us nouveau fly fishermen where the big lunkers lived under logs....So here is a toast to the memory of the Irma Lake Lodge and Roger's famous hospitality...and although that time/space loci may have passed for all of us who loved it there, it stays vividly in our memory...Roger would be the first to encourage new collectors to form visionary collections and create scholarship retreats in beautiful places. Who will be the next to take up this meritorious mission, which turns out to be such good, clean fun! Wishing all the best, -Thomas Murray This is a lovely tribute to a fabulous man, Roger Hollander, nothing less than an “across the board genius,” from technology to the humanities, who loved Life so much that he survived an accident no one else would have…As an update, Roger has made tremendous strides in his recovery, thanks to the support of modern medicine, his family, and friends like Susi Johnston! Now that the ranch is sold, there is no security reason not to show a photo (that you may have, Susi) of Roger’s temperature controlled textile collection room chock-a-block with rolls of the greatest Asian textiles…I joked with him about how he must of misinterpreted when he heard the other gentleman cowboys speaking around the bar at Buffalo Bill’s Irma Hotel in Cody, Wyoming, when he heard them say they collect Indian textiles…they meant Navajo blankets, de rigueur adornment for Ranches in the Rockies…but Roger always was a contrarian, and that thanks to turning East at the Fork, he created the greatest collection of Indian Trade Cloths in the Western World. Susi Johnston helped him achieve that, for which she is too shy to mention, but I will. And with that photo of Susi about to dive in Irma Lake, I sure know why the trout were biting the next time we went down to the water not long after, hoping to nibble a nymph no doubt… but getting instead Danny Shaffer, Tony Hazledine of Hali magazine and moi, no doubt less tasty morsels. We were brought to the “secret spots” by guide Roger at the tiller of the boat, bringing us nouveau fly fishermen where the big lunkers lived under logs….So here is a toast to the memory of the Irma Lake Lodge and Roger’s famous hospitality…and although that time/space loci may have passed for all of us who loved it there, it stays vividly in our memory…Roger would be the first to encourage new collectors to form visionary collections and create scholarship retreats in beautiful places. Who will be the next to take up this meritorious mission, which turns out to be such good, clean fun!
Wishing all the best,
-Thomas Murray

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