Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have not limited our experimentation and testing at Ft. Bragg entirely to this light cannon. We have been developing a new mountain gun, 105 mm. howitzers, 155 mm. howitzers and guns, eight inch and 240 mm. howitzers. In all these guns an increase in range is sought, and, as compared with the guns in use at the close of the war, this end has been partially gained, largely by means of improving the powder, fuses, and projectiles...
...individual who knows Carolina only as described in the tin-pan " mammy" songs, this primitive study of mountain people will be a beneficial surprise...
...many risks and had many narrow escapes from flying rock. Two and a half kegs of black-powder were used and from 40 to 50 tons of rock were lifted in one explosion which cut off some trees 18 inches thick that grew farther down the mountain. The cliff on which the work was done was very steep and rose for 400 feet on the side of the mountain. One large boulder 40 feet long and 10 feet wide was found some distance on occasion and smaller fragments from the block clipped off an oak tree two feet in diameter...
...will lecture on "Exploring with Indians in the Daien Forests". The discussion of this subject will be the narration of a trip which he made for the purpose of collecting mammals, reptiles and fishes for the University Museum. His most striking success was made in the region of Saps Mountain, which had previously been very little explored since early Spanish Colonial times. Dr. Barbour is a naturalist of country-wide reputation, and the author of several papers on fishes and reptiles. At present he is curator of books relating to the Pacific at the University Museum...
...blend of the primitive. Carolina Mountain folk, their feuds, their love...