 His writing attracted attention because in them he maintained that he had based many of his life and business decisions on the whispers of what he called fairies or brownies.In his memoirs published in 1927 he reframed this as hunches.In 1887 Stilwell started the Fairmount Cycling Club and built the amusement center Fairmount Park between Kansas City and Independence, ostensibly to boost traffic for one of the trolley lines he owned.