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...into steep gullies and bringing him to the edge of ha-has, the dreaded chasms that on several occasions seemed to open at the party's feet. Often they had to retrace their weary steps. The bush remains as trackless today as it was then, a labyrinth of wood and rock. Few know its secret corners and paths as do modern explorers like Brown, Andy Macqueen and Wyn Jones. Macqueen, his battered hat shading keen eyes and deep laugh lines, navigates with Caley's journal bearings as if he had accompanied the explorer himself. For 40 years the unflappable historian...
...hard-drinking gold miner who eventually shot and killed himself, Reid grew up in the town of Searchlight, 54 miles south of Las Vegas, in a tiny wood shack with a tin roof. He boarded with a family to attend high school in Henderson, 40 miles away, and he later went to college with money chipped in by Henderson townsfolk. Once an amateur boxer, he worked nights as a Capitol Hill police officer to pay for law school at George Washington University. As chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission from 1977 to 1981, Reid, a devout Mormon, battled organized crime...
...Clem B. Wood ’08, a student in the Dylan seminar, unquestionably sees a great academic quality to the class. In addition to viewing Dylan as one of the great American poets, Wood sees Dylan’s influence as pervasive even beyond music and literature...
...Culturally, Dylan represents the most American of figures, and he has a keensense of history,” Wood says. “From wearing paint on the 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour, as if a blackface minstrel, to parading around in 10-gallon hats worthy of aCivil War general, Dylan manages to show an appreciation of Americana ineven his physical appearance...
...asked Morss Professor of Psychology Susan E. Carey thirty years ago if she could have imagined herself behind this cherry wood desk, she might have been a tad skeptical...