The Clan Alpine Mountains are located in west-central Nevada in the United States. The range lies in a southwest-northeasterly direction in Churchill County, and contains Mount Augusta, at 9,966 feet above sea level. The mountains lie to the west of the Desatoya Mountains and southeast of the Stillwater Range. At least eight mines are located in the northwestern part of the range north of Healy Peak. The Clan Alpine Mountains lie to the north and northwest of Highway 50.
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“It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.”
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As through an Alpine village passed
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