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The mountains of western Montana are sweeping monoliths of beauty and danger, testaments of nature’s grace and ire. Buried within this granite boneyard is the quiet town of Manhattan, home of the Thronson Forge. This is a place of creation. Inside, sparks dance through the air and fade into the concrete floor. Billets of layered
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Twenty-three years ago, 7,400 meters above sea level, Narayan GC climbed the jagged face of Mount Cho Oyu, the sixth-highest mountain in the world, on the border of Nepal and China. A blizzard had battered the final camp – only 800 meters from the summit – for three days. Winds hit 80 mph. Temperatures dropped
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In 1929, Gladys and Harold Nikalson moved from Spencer, Iowa, to Brookings, South Dakota, where they began to make what would, arguably, become the most famous burgers in South Dakota. At a starting price of five cents per burger and with the “Dirty Thirties” ahead of them, the Nikalsons needed to create an icon to
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Diannia Zimmerman sits crookedly in an armchair she never bought – in an apartment she can barely afford. Confined to her walker, she makes the effort to leave the apartment building each day to smoke her cigarettes – the only vice she affords herself anymore. This is where the decades spent serving the public left
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