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That meant considerable vigilance, for the Ramapos lie a mere 30 miles northwest of Manhattan. On clear days, from the top of neighboring Jackie Jones Mountain, Gil Pitt could see the skyscrapers: Half Moon itself was only 55 minutes from Broadway...
...Pitt was born & bred a mountain man. By the time he was knee-high to a fox pup, he knew nearly all there was to know about handling an ax and a rifle. He grew up long-legged and straight as a tulip tree, standing 6 feet 3 in his bare feet. He had a vast nose, a scraggly beard and a wild look in his eyes...
...proud of his family. The Pitts had been mountain men in the Ramapos since Revolutionary War days, and they claimed to be direct descendants of famed William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. "This Lord Pitt," they liked to boast, "he was lord of all England." The Pitts and the Starrs and the Conklins were the aristocrats of the hills...
...other mountain men drifted down into the valleys, the hamlets and small towns. Some of them even went to work on eight-hour-a-day jobs. But not Gil Pitt. He just moved higher up on Half Moon Mountain, four miles from the nearest town, two miles from the nearest highway...
...Technique of Violence. In the preface to his Pitt thesis on coal mining, Chen opened up more like a philosopher than an engineer: "In the development of any industry, the first aim is the benefit of mankind...