Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sackett's Harbor, N. Y. Last week the El Paso County (Col.) Pioneers' Society requested the Secretary of War to permit the removal of his remains to Pike's Peak. In 1806, as an army lieutenant, Pike went out to explore the new Louisiana Purchase, scaled a neighboring mountain, looked upon what is now called Pike's Peak, and declared it "never could be scaled by man." After the Pioneers' Society has shown him, he will not be so incredulous...
...Charles Cahier, contralto; Ruth Breton, violinist; Fred Patton, baritone; John Powell, composer-pianist. The American music was Powell's Variations and Fugue on a theme of F. C. Hahr, songs by Loeffler, Chadwick, Carpenter, Sidney Homer, Henry Hadley, E. S. Kelley, Walter Damrosch, Edward Harris, arrangements of Kentucky mountain songs by Howard A. Brockway, violin numbers by Brockway, Cecil Burleigh, Hadley, MacDowell and Sowerby...
...Name the highest U.S. mountain...
...long, baring abodes ranging from scooped-out hollows in the earth to extensive stone apartment-buildings that sheltered whole clans; bringing the number of skeletons found to 56, some wrapped in pink, purple and blue shrouds of soft texture, with turquoise, stone and shell ornaments littered near. In the Mountain of the Mother of Salt, a sand-strewn salt-hill several hundred feet high twelve miles from Pueblo Grande, a cave 140 feet deep and 50 wide sparkled brilliantly under the explorers' flashlights. They found stone hammers with the wooden handles preserved, bits of sandals, creosote-brush torches, even...
...Mountain climbers were downcast last week. From Calcutta came a wireless saying that Brigadier General C. G. Bruce, commander of the 1924 attempt and failure to reach the highest spot on earth, Mt. Everest's peak,? had learned that the Tibetan authorities** had "definitely decided to prohibit any further expeditions...