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for hiking and climbing rather than wearing city-appropriate dresses and high shoes. Her health improved in the mountain environment. Her friend, Katherine
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Enos Mills had been sick, complicated by stress, for months in the summer and early fall of 1922. He then had an abscess that required surgery in his mouth and jaw, the infection brought on blood poisoning that stopped his heart in the early morning of
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1133:Mills 1990
1085:Mills 1990
847:2024-03-08
841:News-Press
643:2024-03-08
583:2024-03-08
578:Estes Park
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