Nocona, Texas, population 3,033, was once the “Leather Goods Center of the Southwest.” The two-stoplight town, located about 100 miles northwest of Dallas, has been home to a number of boot and belt companies dating back to the cattle drives 150 years ago. Most of the...
Twenty-two-year-old Harvard University student Norman Vaughan was trying to make the freshman football team when he read the headlines in a Boston newspaper, “Byrd to the South Pole.” Thoughts of the expedition consumed him and he told his four roommates, “I’ve got to...
To the loggers and company officials at Maxxam Lumber in Humboldt, California, 23-year-old Julia “Butterfly” Hill was an “extremist tree-hugging hippy radical environmentalist.” To the environmental activists at Earth First, she was a courageous, inspirational,...