But, if he went on to Quigley, a mining-town in the bare mountains, he would be at the mouth of Quigley Pass, which led to a little-used trail through the mountains and almost in a straight line across the arm of the desert known locally as the Bad Lands.
"The Desert Valley"
Jackson Gregory
An Irish Food Control Committee with executive powers, authority in the hands of locally-elected bodies to conserve and distribute local supplies of food, was ideally the proper scheme: but the proper scheme was, as usual, unattainable and Sinn Fein was doing what was perhaps the only thing that could be done under the circumstances.
"The Evolution of Sinn Fein"
Robert Mitchell Henry
But this member, if interested, locally or otherwise, although taking part in other ways, could not vote.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell