Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grass" is a story of the annual migrations of the central Asiatic tribes over the mountain ranges and river valleys to the plains, where grass, the means of livelihood, is obtained...
...living conditions. Of the pictures taken during this period, three deserve special mention for their splendid photographic and educational value. "An Unknown Race", filmed in North Africa, discusses life in a civilization that is older than Rome. The inhabitants of the country, called Berbers, have endured in a secluded mountain district of North Africa in eastern Algeria...
Idaho pridefully named its biggest mountain for him and his League of Nations ("Little American") speech (November 1919) was so effective as to reduce even cold, tough-minded Henry Cabot Lodge to running tears...
...have pledged our determination and our hearts blood to avoid similar fatalities, and we desire a change of tactical policy that will result in meeting the bandits in actual mountain warfare and opposing them with the same methods as they themselves...
...white settlers made it another "Dark and Bloody Ground" with their feuds. Chief feuding clans in Breathitt County were the Callahans and the Hargises. Chief killer for the Hargises was Curt Jett, a lanky, pork-eating, whiskey-drinking hothead. He became known as the "Wild Dog of the Mountains." In 1904 Curt Jett, in behalf of James Hargis, his clan chief and uncle, shot & killed a federal officer and a local police chief.* He was sentenced to life imprisonment. Prison tamed the "Wild Dog of the Mountains." He had never been vicious. And when he professed religion he was accepted...