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The Bush administration wants to let people carry guns in national parks. Want to comment on that? Here's how. (Posted 5-1-08)

"Gran-Ma Soule," a legendary backpacking grandmother from Michigan, has succumbed to cancer. (Posted 9-6-07)

Guru of lightweight backpacking has died (Posted 6-19-07)

The year was 1916 and the town was Erwin, Tenn., and it could have been the crime of the century the way they swiftly meted out justice ... Read about Murderous Mary's rampage in this Page One story, re-created for the ALDHA Web page.

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