Word: fr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story.* When Captain Frémont entered California in 1846, 25 troopers, trained to a hair mounted on stallions, wearing gold-braided green uniforms, met him in the mountains. Impressed, Frémont complimented the burly Swiss who led them and the latter, Johann August Sutter, conducted Frémont to an eminence to behold New Helvetia, the largest richest one-man domain in the New World...
Pour le sport, matadors are gored by bulls, half-backs achieve broken collar bones, skiers leap at 90 miles an hour into snowdrifts where many a hip is twisted awry. Last week Sport, most ogreish of modern Deities, lured Frãulein Elfriede Lucker of Dresden and four male companions up the snow-swept Bratschenkopf, near the Austro-German frontier...
...Frãulein Lucker, robust, buxom, was paired in climbing with a lean, nervous youth, her fiance. With pick and pole and hatchet the party labored upward. Suddenly a blinding Alpine snow storm swept upon them, continued for 24 hours...
...Frãulein Lucker and her fiance contrived a snow shelter. Wrapping their garments cocoonwise they lay down, shivering, snow-beaten, storm-cowed...
When the storm cleared Frãulein Lucker staggered down the mountain, secured a rescue party, fainted with exhaustion and despair when told that her fiance and his three companions were found dead...