Boyd " Slim " Arnold, the first Mountaineer mascot to don the traditional buckskin uniform.

naming the mascot annually in 1937, with Boyd " Slim " Arnold becoming the first Mountaineer to wear the buckskin uniform.

The school's mascot is a Mountaineer and the school colors are black and gold.

The Waynesville school colors of black and gold and the Mountaineer mascot were both inherited by the new school.

EOU's mascot is the Mountaineer.

* Natalie Tennant: WV Secretary of State, in 1990 Tennant was the first female to represent West Virginia University as the Mountaineer Mascot

Mountaineer Ian Clough was born in Baildon.

While Maravich would tell friends later in life he always desired to play basketball for West Virginia University and was all set to be a Mountaineer, his father was the varsity coach at LSU and his father offered the " Pistol " a spot at LSU.

With no room for growth on the downtown campus, the football stadium was closed, and the new Mountaineer Field was opened near the Medical campus on September 6, 1980.

Although Mercury was not the first nameplate to introduce a SUV ( following the Range Rover and the Oldsmobile Bravada ), the 1997 Mercury Mountaineer was among one of the first to popularize luxury SUVs.

The Mercury Mountaineer was discontinued in the 2010 model year, with the remaining Mercurys following suit after an abbreviated 2011 model year.

While at WVU he was involved with student government and founded " Mountaineer Week " a celebration of West Virginia culture in response to his perception that the growing number of out-of-state students at the school were changing its character.

The book was published in New York and London in 1856 as The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth: Mountaineer, Scout and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians.

The fact that the Aviator was virtually identical to the Navigator in all regards but size made it difficult to generate attention among potential buyers, and the Mercury Mountaineer had already proved sufficient to cater to buyers wanting a slightly more upscale alternative to the Explorer.

The Deer Crest chair lift was upgraded from fixed grip to a high speed quad and renamed The Mountaineer Express in 2012.

The Mountaineer, which functioned both as a college newspaper and alumni journal, was published sporadically during the latter part of the 1800s, and began regular publication in 1893.

Another publication, The Mountaineer, was devoted to alumni news and literary pursuits.

The Mercury Mountaineer was a mid-size sport utility vehicle ( SUV ) that was sold by the Mercury division of Ford Motor Company from 1997 until 2010.

Externally, they were styled somewhat differently, and the Mountaineer was positioned with a more upscale interior, with the Mountaineer's MSRP coming in at $ 1, 000 –$ 6, 000 more than the Explorer.

The Mountaineer was never sold in Canada.

The Mountaineer was only slightly different from the Explorer, although it did offer a few extra luxury features that the Explorer lacked, such as a standard Windsor V8.

For 1998, so customers could differentiate the Mountaineer from the Explorer, the front fascia was flipped upside down, and the headlights were made smaller, while it got a new rear hatch and unique wheels.

This Mountaineer was new from the ground up, offering even more luxury features than the last generation.

For 2006, the Mountaineer was redesigned on a heavily revised frame.

The West Virginia University Mountaineer Marching Band, known as the Pride of West Virginia, has performed an arrangement of the song during Mountaineer football games since 1973.

As part of the discontinuation of the Mercury brand, production of the Mountaineer ended in late 2010.

When Theodore H. Hittell met John Adams in late 1856 at John's Mountaineer Museum in San Francisco, California, John first represented himself as William Adams, then a short time later told Hittell ( also incorrectly ) that his name was James Capen Adams ; he maintained this alias into 1860.

On October 11, 1996, seven men having connections with the Mountaineer Militia, a local anti-government paramilitary group, were arrested on charges of plotting to blow up the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Criminal Justice Information Services Division complex in Clarksburg.

The canceled passenger service has recently been replaced by a blue-plate tourist service, the Rocky Mountaineer, with fares well over double what the BCR coach fares had been.

:" The Mountaineer method is the only one adapted for the interior parts of the country: their sleds are made of two thin boards of birch ; each about six inches broad, a quarter of an inch thick, and six feet long: these are fastened parallel to each other by slight battens, sewed on with thongs of deer-skin ; and the foremost end is curved up to rise over the inequalities of the snow.

The zoo has a refurbished historic 1937 Carousel, the Mountaineer Sky Ride ( an open air chairlift-style ride with separate admission and hours ), the Shongololo Choo Choo Tot Train, pony rides, a fire tower, food shops, and gift shops.

To bridge the gap between the Explorer and the discontinued Lincoln Aviator, the Mountaineer offered an upscale interior with a DVD based navigation system with voice control, a feature not found on previous Mountaineers.

The new stadium was originally to be called Mountaineer Stadium, but the fans ignored this and called it New Mountaineer Field, with the " new " eventually falling into disuse.

Ward then moved to Colorado, where he joined the gay Rocky Mountaineer Motorcycle Club and further experimented with piercing, genital in particular.

Tracks like Delaware Park and West Virginia's Mountaineer Park, once considered places where local degenerates bet on broken-down nags in claiming races, are now among the wealthiest tracks around, with the best races.

After coming west, he fortuitously helped William N. Byers publish the first extra edition of the Rocky Mountain News on June 11, 1859, and then with his partners in the Boston Company established Colorado's fourth newspaper, the Western Mountaineer, in Golden on December 4, 1859.

" West Virginia Metro News " features on-the-hour news, political and sports talk programs, along with West Virginia University Mountaineer sports, via the company's " Mountaineer Sports Network " or " MSN ".

* J. Monroe Thorington, Oliver Perry Smith ; Profile of a Mountaineer, American Alpine Journal ( AAJ ) 1964, pp. 99 – 120 ( with 14 photographs in additional plates )

Rail service through to Jasper is provided by the Rocky Mountaineer, using Canadian National Railway tracks from North Vancouver via Whistler and Prince George.

Smaller railways such as Ontario Northland Railway and Algoma Central Railway also run passenger trains to remote rural areas. The Rocky Mountaineer and Royal Canadian Pacific provide Railtours through the Rocky Mountains.

Via Rail's Canadian and the Rocky Mountaineer pass through Lytton, but do not make any stops.

Rocky Mountaineer is a Canadian tour company offering Western Canadian vacation packages that operates trains on four rail routes through British Columbia and Alberta.