Letters: Mar. 21, 1927

Chaps, Hat, Cattle

Sirs:

It is difficult to express to you how intrigued we are to be dubbed "Mountaineers" in an article concerning the newly formed Montana Symphony Orchestra published in TIME, Feb. 28.

Doubtless you are that New Yorker who asked how far west of Buffalo one began to see the Indians. . . .

After reading your article, one gets a big picture of musician Joseph Adam, trembling, but courageous, facing an audience of long-bearded, rawboned (your own word), two-gunned, tobacco-spittin' individuals, booted and spurred and clad in chaps and ten-gallon hats, smelling...

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