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The Thin Mountain Air stationery not only the eternal salvationBy Paul Horgan New York State in the 1920s: a time of brisk and bright hope, with prosperity and progress rising as a vision beyond the fact of mortality to which all men are subject. For Richard, now in his sophomore year of college, life is a fruit ripe for the picking. But when his father, the newly elected Lieutenant Governor of New York, is taken ill with tuberculosis, Richard leaves college to join his family in New Mexico. There his own health