Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also last week the Commission ordered a revision of livestock freight rates. For the western trunk line territory whence come 40% of U. S. cattle, 60% of hogs, a 10% average upping was granted. Southwestern rates were cut 6%, while those in the Mountain-Pacific area were reduced...
...discrimination when you say under "In Reno."' June 15, "True to the canons of Wild Bill Hickok and Kit Carson. . . ." Every western writer of "westerns" knows that Hickok was a two-gun law man; one of the genuine gun fighters of the West. That Kit Carson was a "mountain man" of the fur trader period; a time before the gunslinging, gunfighting period when "Colt was King" at Dodge...
William MacLeod Raine's Famous Sheriffs and Western Outlaws gives you the two-gun period. Leroy Hafen's Broken Hand, a story of the famous fur trader and Indian agent Fitzpatrick, gives the code of the mountain...
...minutes later the White House motor rolled up before him. Behind it came the presidential bodyguard, buttoning their shirts and tying their cravats as they scrambled into their escort car. A brief nod of farewell to his camp guests and President Hoover, without dinner, started down the mountain toward the capital 112 mi. away. Thirty miles along the road a car from his camp careened up beside the President's motor. Its driver handed Mr. Hoover a box of sandwiches prepared after his departure. Without stopping the President munched bread & chicken & cheese while his car whizzed through heavy holiday...
...distinguished-citizen-to-whose-inspiration-the-gathering-was-due was the silver-maned Politico-Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski, first Premier of Republican Poland (1919). He it was who ordered the Wilson statue from the U. S. mountain-molder, Gutzon Borglum, and paid for it. Many years ago he was engaged to give a concert at Stanford University. Subscriptions failed to raise the necessary amount. The treasurer of the concert, an undergraduate working his way through college, presented his own note for the deficit. Paderewski returned the note to the concert treasurer, Herbert Clark Hoover...