Mystery Ranch History Mystery Ranch Backpacks. Mystery Ranch is built on a heritage of function, comfort, quality and durability. Since 2. 00. 0, Mystery Ranch has been manufacturing packs and load carriage systems for military, hunting, wildland fire and mountaineering customers, with a focus on use specific designs and hand built quality. Based in Bozeman, Montana, Mystery Ranch is a global brand with worldwide production and distribution. The-Mystery-of-History-on-Kindle.jpg' alt='Mystery Of History' title='Mystery Of History' />Owners Dana Gleason and Renee Sippel Baker have worked together since 1. Dana hired Renee as a production sewer with his first company, Kletterwerks. Their business association grew through building packs at Kletterwerks and then designing specialized carry systems for cameras and other electronic equipment with MojoQuest Systems. In 1. 98. 5, Dana and Renee founded Dana Design, the backpack company that would come to be recognized as the industry standard in load carriage technology. Danas Arc. Flex internal frame was the first pack system that integrated different kinds of materials to maximize the benefits of each for more effective load transfer. By the early 9. 0s, Dana Design was the pack to own and the name had become synonymous with comfort and quality. At its peak, Dana Design had three full time production facilities in Montana, over 2. Prompted by the need for capital to expand into wider markets and manage a growing company, Dana and Renee accepted an offer to sell Dana Design to the K2 Corporation in 1. After a few years of what they thought would be a skiing and backpacking filled early retirement, both Dana and Renee realized that they still wanted to be in the business. When Danas daughter, Alice, asked him to design her a new hip sack, he went back to the design room and found that there were still some great packs that needed to be built. Dana and Renee officially founded Mystery Ranch in 2. M1CC-Cover-379x490.jpg' alt='Mystery Of History' title='Mystery Of History' />The hip sack that Dana built for Alice was the beginning of what would become Mystery Ranchs patented lumbar wrap, and the designs for the NICE frame and SATL would soon follow. Though firmly entrenched in outdoor retail, Dana was approached by the Navy SEALs for custom packs in 2. Mystery Ranch began a relationship with the military that would significantly alter its business model and design strategy. Dana and Renee decided to move the company to a direct sales model so that they could focus on designing products for specialized customers with a new capacity for customization and rapid prototyping. The feedback from the military and Special Forces users provided a better understanding of what customers wanted and how best to give it to them. Dana and Renee took what they learned from these relationships and applied it to design and construction of all product lines, so that regardless of the mission, a Mystery Ranch pack is up to the job. The Universal Monsters The year was 1923 and the film was The Hunchback. This was a move away from the traditional wholesale model in the outdoor industry, but one that provided Mystery Ranch an opportunity to design for high level customers in military, wildland fire, backpack hunting, and mountaineering. The innovation that followed allowed Dana the creative freedom to push the boundaries of what was possible in pack design and materials technology, while building on his history of designing durable and comfortable packs, and has inspired user centric designs across all Mystery Ranch products. Mystery Ranch continues to grow into new markets, and every product we build is steeped in a history of innovation that spans four decades and is rooted in our dedication to designing the most functional, comfortable and highest quality packs on the market. With both domestic and international sales and production, as well as direct to consumer and wholesale business models, we maintain our standard of quality around the globe. Mystery fiction is a genre of fiction usually involving a mysterious death or a crime to be solved. In a closed circle of suspects, each suspect must have a credible. Midway through the eighth century a monk living in the monastery of Beth Hale in Iraq recorded the arrival there of an eminent visitor. A Son of Ishmael one. From Mystery to History Pennsylvanias Bygone Lumber Industry. Though Harry Littell was teaching digital photography to Lois Barden, she came to class one day in 2. She had with her a box of 8 by 1. Rochester, N. Y. She asked her teacher what he thought. When he started scanning the plates, Mr. Littell was amazed. There were images of logging camps, railroads, studio portraits, children and outdoor scenes. This was a foreign world unlike anything I really knew, said Mr. Littell, the chairman of photography at Tompkins Cortland Community College in Dryden, N. Y. I was amazed at the detail, the mystery of these images. There were people and horses in a woodland setting, and immediately I wanted to know What are the stories that explain these people and their situation Are there any connections to usThose questions started him on a meandering path that ended with the discovery that the photos had been taken in Pennsylvania, starting in the late 1. William T. Clarke, a photographer who had worked in the area for some 4. With Ronald E. Ostman, an emeritus professor of graduate communications at Cornell and Mr. Littells collaborator on previous books, he assembled a detailed look at a bygone world in Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers, published by Penn State University Press. The book, whose title comes from names given to certain jobs at lumber camps, chronicles how the countrys unceasing demand for wood for railroads, trestles and houses transformed Pennsylvanias landscape from virgin forest to desolation. It also brings to light the work of Mr. Clarke, whose detailed negatives displayed a certain flair. There is so much humanity in those pictures, Mr. Littell said. Mr. Ostman saw familiar scenes in the images. Bajaj Rice Cooker User Manual. He grew up in northern Minnesota, and both of his grandfathers were in the lumber business. A lot of it was familiar to me, he said. What impressed me was I had never seen 8 by 1. It took some sleuthing to root out the stories. Starting with information scratched onto the edges of the negatives, as well as details from locomotives, they narrowed down the area to Pennsylvania. While researching at the Pennsylvania State Archives, they met Linda A. Ries, who recognized the work as Mr. Clarkes because the images were similar to ones in the archive that had been rescued from a leaky barn. Ms. Ries did some genealogical research, which led her to the name Isabel Mayo. Though it meant nothing to Mr. Littell, the name jolted Ms. Barden Isabel Mayo was her husbands grandmother, who had kept the box of negatives in her shed. As one could imagine, life in the lumber camps was rough. The workers were isolated for a good part of the year and prohibited from drinking and sometimes even speaking at meals, and one of the few comforts they had was good food. And while some of the pictures showed a certain quiet, almost pastoral, tone, the men depicted were rough and tumble. When they hit town, usually on the Fourth of July, they were ready to rock and roll when they got into town, Mr. Ostman said. They were victims of cabin fever from being isolated in the boonies for nine months. They got drunk immediately and took it out on the townspeople, or they started fighting among themselves. They had spikes in their boots, and when they fought, the idea was to get the other guy down and spike his face. They called it loggers smallpox. Mr. Clarke spent 4. Pennsylvania before returning to the Rochester area to be with family. By then, the landscape had been cleared, and the lumber companies had moved on to other states. The glass plates that were later discovered in Rochester may have been favorites that Mr. Clarke decided to keep. Among them are group portraits of lumber workers, which was as much an economic choice as an aesthetic one The more people in the image, the more photos could be sold. As a result, there are probably descendants of loggers who have more of Mr. Clarkes images in their homes. With the publication of this book, they may now have some answers not just on their family history, but on that of Pennsylvania. There is this whole environmental story, Mr. Littell said. This whole boom to bust story. Clarke was able to get to the tail end of the virgin hemlock forest. At the end, you see where everything was logged off. It took a hundred years for it to grow back. Now, its beautiful. Follow dgbxny and nytimesphoto on Twitter. You can also find us on Facebook and Instagram.