Along with Rowell, there was Conrad Anker, one of the greatest American mountain climbers, and Jimmy Chin, a Wyoming-based climber and photographer with a reputation for steadfastness.
As stiff as his white-collared shirts, a Rocky Mountain version of American Gothic, the Mormon Senator nonetheless makes nice with the Beltway Philistines.
In the mid-1950s, he made his way to that touchstone for so many of the best American modern artists, Black Mountain College in North Carolina.
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At an old Soviet army base, tucked along mountain foothills here, American Marines, like Staff Sergeant Roy Brady, Jr.
Originally known as Marsh Tavern, the inn was a meeting place for the Green Mountain Boys during the American Revolution.
Excessive borrowing and spending threatens economic stability, jeopardizes American power abroad and passes along a mountain of debt to our children and grandchildren.
To get rid of Harriet Boyd, an enthusiastic young American, he suggested she dig an inaccessible mountain site in eastern Crete.
By contrast, in poorer countries the American university is the pinnacle of the education mountain, offering a degree that leads both to economic prosperity and to political power.
Mahan, who made six birdies in the final, is the first American to win the Match Play crown at Dove Mountain since Tiger Woods in 2008.
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Signs of anti-Western militancy are rife throughout this vast kingdom, from the capital, Riyadh--where in June separate car bombs blew up a British banker outside his home and nearly killed an American expatriate--to Abha, a remote mountain city in the southern province of Asir, where four of the hijackers were raised and locals still celebrate all "the Fifteen, " as the group is called.
In 2006 Powder Mountain was sold to a consortium, Western American Holdings, which planned to carve it up and fill it up.
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Nor is it everyone's idea of a good time to scramble up to the snowline on the 3, 200-metre Kitzsteinhorn peak, just to hear an avant-garde work by an American, George Lopez, delivered by plucky players perched like mountain goats along the cliffs nearby.
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Accuweather, an American company, has been courting European media, businessmen, mariners and mountain-climbing fanatics.
That means the Mountain West, Sun Belt, Conference USA, the Mid-American and Western Athletic conferences must rank in the top 12 of the BCS poll to get the automatic bid.
The mountain also features other attractions besides the carving that "preserve" the Native American tradition, Dobbs said.
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In previous Tours de France, Heras had been the mountain lynchpin of Armstrong's Tour de France successes, helping coax the American up the toughest climbs.
Friday's race winner Aksel Lund Svindal was fifth, extending his overall lead to 177 points from absent American Ted Ligety, who will return to action for Sunday's giant slalom across the mountain at Alta Badia.
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The American pilots dropped first from the sky, injured and scared, into the Hmong villages on Phou Bia Mountain, and we helped them get better again in the depths of the jungle.
"I am available to my people 24 hours a day, " says Father Malin, who has traveled muddy mountain roads at 2 a.m. to administer last rites and once presided alongside a Native American shaman at a wedding.
In 1998, an American fighter jet clipped a ski lift cable sending a gondola of 20 passengers to their death in the Italian Dolomite mountain range.
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