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Idaho City, Idaho (pop. 273) is only a ghost of a town, but its leading citizens still pack a punch. Editor John Colley, who publishes the weekly Idaho Mountaineer and pitches for the town's oft-beaten baseball team, criticized some of the fielders editorially for not playing hard...
Alvin C. York Jr., mountaineer son of the No. 1 U.S. hero of World War I, got indicted in Tennessee for running contraband liquor.
Achievements at Scotts Run have not gone unrecognized. This year, the West Virginia Junior Chamber of Commerce selected Dick Smith for a Distinguished Service Award. His church has recently promoted him to be a supervisor of mountaineer mining missions, and he has moved into Morgantown with two ordained assistants and...
The hillbilly ballad The Martins and the Coys is a burlesque of backwoods feuding which will delight lovers of radio rurality and of Paul Webb's mountaineer cartoons, and offend those who think such caricature as insulting as the hush-mah-mouf kind of comic contempt for Negroes. All...
Mountains were John Muir's particular delight. Once he wrote: "I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer. . . . Civilization and fever & all the morbidness that has been hooted at me have not dimmed my glacial eye, & I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's...