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...foamed at the mouth and had to be locked in the men's coatroom had eaten soap for fun or had faked an attack of the D.T.'s for the benefit of Leo and Gertrude Stein. And nobody knows just how much wine was drunk by Lolo, the donkey that painted impressionist canvases with its tail...
Neuberger replied that DeVoto had willed his ashes be spread along the Lolo Trail in the Clearwater, since he had done so much research there on his edition of The Journals of Lewis and Clark. Off the floor, Neuberger called Dworshak's statement a "personal vendetta against him" rather than a rational discussion of the problem...
...Columbia. The guide took them on a long detour through the land of the Flatheads, who like other tribes found York the most interesting member of the expedition. Crossing the snowclad Bitterroot Mountains' Lolo Trail, they ran out of food in the wilderness, in desperation ate their horses to keep alive. Emerging on the western slope, in Idaho's Weippe Prairie, they gorged on camas bulbs (which made them sick) and dog meat (which they found surprisingly good). On the banks of the Clearwater River they built canoes and floated down the Clearwater and the Snake...
...back in Lolo (pop. 200), Mont., where he was born on Sept. 1, 1900, Bill Allen gave little indication of such single-minded devotion to the job ahead. He is remembered as a tall, stringy "toothpick" youngster. His father, Charles Maurice Allen, was a mining engineer who enjoyed taking Bill and his older brother Edward on long pack trips to live off venison and mountain grouse. At Montana State University Allen barely skinned through. It was not until he went east to Harvard Law School (class of '25) that he decided to work hard for the first time...
Invitation to Wander. There, while she rocked back & forth in her chair with her little dog Lolo in her lap, Gertrude Stein talked and talked. She talked, among other things, about America. As Wilder listened, all his lessons-the digging at Rome, Wager's "Every great work was written this morning"-fell into place. Gertrude Stein made a distinction between human nature and the human mind. Human nature, she said, clings to identity, to location in time and place. The human mind has no identity; it gazes at pure existing and pure creating, and "it knows what it knows...