Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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SERAFINE PANCHERI JR. Iron Mountain, Mich...
Denver citizens were to vote on a new city charter. Almost everybody, apparently, was for it: the Post, the Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News (Denver's only other daily), young Mayor Quigg Newton, the Chamber of Commerce, the unions. The charter's main opponents: 61year-old Columnist Gustin, the city auditor and a group of political "outs...
...Rockies gave the Colonel his first idea. As soon as he landed in San Francisco, he telegraphed the Trib: "When the brass ceases preparing for the last war, it will find these mountain tops excellent places for antiaircraft artillery. . . . They will produce surprise fire on the invader. With air shelters for our people, mountain top . . . artillery and a superior air force, we can, as always, defy the world...
While "Across the Wide Missouri" is an excellent survey of a period vastly underrated in popular history, Mr. Devote's greatest contribution lies in his analysis of true pioneers. The mountain men, the visionary merchants doomed to failure, and the Indians were components of a complex society that influenced the formation of a "Continental mind." Hard, cunning, and loose-living, the mountain men develop as a strange breed with a passion to destroy the country they loved. They trapped foolishly with no idea of the future. In their society a man's ability was his only passport...
...adapt themselves to civilization and soon became the victims in one of the greatest confidence games in history. Drunk on pure alcohol, the braves "sighed and applauded like a congregation of Follies girls at a Mainbocher private showing" when they receiver a doorman's uniform for their furs. The mountain men fought better than the Indians, hysterical missionaries broke down their religion, and civilized diseases destroyed their bodies...