Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fell ill, and as "Mortification" set in, Lee "watched with her all Night, lifting & turning her in Bed about every 5 minits." As in an Old Testament tale, the huge family assembles at the deathbed to hear the dying injunction, while son Joseph rides to the mountain for a "Bucket of Snow" to cool his mother's lips. Meanwhile, "the Lumber previously dressed up" stands ready for the coffin-for this is a pioneer story in which prayer and practicality are never far apart...
...Just. But the Bishop made an Excuse to go ... & got out of it." Bull & Scapegoat. In the last years of his life, Lee needed Emma's sort of staunchness. Although these diaries do not contain his account of it, Lee had taken part in the brutal Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, when more than a hundred "Gentile" men, women and children were ruthlessly killed by a troop of Mormons. The Civil War interrupted the Federal Government's prosecution of the case, involving 36 suspects, and by the time the war was over, the Government was ready to compromise...
...BOOK OF THE MOUNTAINS, edited by A. C. Spectorsky (492 pp.; Apple-ton-Century-Crofts; $10), might seem to leave ex-Exurbanite Author Spectorsky (TIME, Nov. 7) hanging over a crevasse after the year's avalanche of good books on mountaineering. In fact, though, this is an attractive anthology of writing about mountains and mountain people, with generally good drawings and photographs...
...Canaan at 7 p.m., Dec. 30 at the New Canaan Country Club; Philadelphia, any luncheon, Room 301 Bellevue-Stratford Hotel; Rocky Mountain Club at 12:15, Dec. 27 at University Club, Denver...
Equipped with Rocky Mountain-climbing Hall-Scott motors, the engine can travel up to 85 miles per hour, "and you can bet that she'll really steam down that road with all cylinders popping," Lynch forecast. The engine is the third of only three of its kind ever made. Cambridge owns two of the machines, while Memphis has the only other...