Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when we cross That White Oak Mountain...
...September 27, 1903, a Sunday train, No. 97, which ran over the Southern Railroad from Washington to Atlanta, was late at Lynchburg and in making up lost time, its engineer ran it at a high rate of speed on a steep grade down one side of White Oak Mountain, just north of Danville, Virginia. As the train reached a curving trestle, it left the tracks and plunged into a ravine below. The crew was killed and the train was completely destroyed. Quite a number of songs were written by different persons to commemorate this sad event...
...drawling commentary by Will James, interrupted by occasional dialog between human characters, accompanies the career of Smoky, a range-loving mustang who becomes leader of his herd by outfacing a mountain lion. After being trained to the saddle by broncho-busting Clint (Victor Jory), Smoky is stolen and beaten by a cowhand he once threw. At length he stamps his captor to death, heads for the open range. Clint gives him up for lost, goes away to be a meatpacker. Captured, Smoky becomes successively a rodeo broncho, a riding horse, a junkman's nag. Just as he ambles into...
...excitement incident to Repeal, everyone has neglected one time-tried branch of home industry, to wit, the moonshine trade; the rugged enthusiast in the bathtub, alone, of all the people, has seen the light. The solution of our ills is to encourage the moonshiner, the mountaineer, and his bootleg brand; he should be allowed to issue his product under a special tax, microscopic in dimensions, and should be praised for his simple, homespun way of living and working; he should be glorified in poem and ballad, and should develop a tried and true clientele of drinkers hardy enough to withstand...
...Dartmouth, Carnival at Hanover, February 9 and 10; the Middlebury Carnival, February 12 and 13; the Harvard ski meet, an intramural affair on Mt. Washington, February 25; the Gunstock Race of the White Mountain Ski Runners on Mt. Belknap, March 4; the Eastern Downhill Race in the Taft Trail, Mt. Cannon, March 18; the Nanson Race on Mt. Washington, March 25; and the newly organized Harvard, Dartmouth Meet which this year is to be held in Tuckerman Ravine, Mt. Washington, April...