"He was my swamper from 2 to 7 a . m ., " said Gordie Fix, who owned the Elbow Room before opening the Press Box Sports Bar in Missoula.
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More recently, Florence native Patterson Hood, son of " Swamper " David Hood, has found fame in his own right as a member of the alternative rock group Drive-By Truckers.
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One chapter of the novel is a sympathetic depiction of George, a low-paid Negro who works as a " swamper " at the Greyhound bus depot, cleaning the buses and retrieving lost property.
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Crider, a state police detective who lives in Harlan and talks in the even, measured tones of his profession, became interested in rock crawling after his son " kept talking about 4-by-4 this and 4-by-4 that . " He paid $ 600 for the International, modifying it with lower gears; " Detroit " lockers, which send power to all four wheels simultaneously; and oversized " Super Swamper " tires.
