"The first theatrical effort that had any continuity was in 1916 when the headless rider of Sleepy Hollow fame was acted in pantomime. Ed Triol was the leading spirit. We all sat around a big camp fire in front of the old house that was inherited with the Kitsap property . . . This stunt was acted on a bright moonlit Halloween night. The actors wore sheets, rode sticks with carved horses' heads and tore around at terrific speed. The climax was reached when one of the ghosts took off his head, a football, and threw it into the midst of the audience assembled around the camp fire".

"The next spring a few excerpts from Robin Hood were acted in appropriate spots in the forest below Hidden Ranch. The audience covered a great deal of ground following the actors from tree trunk to open spaces." (Elizabeth Kirkwood, The Mountaineer, 1930)

"The green depths of the woods furnished a perfect background for the performance of Robin Hood which was held on the morning of the Rhododendron walk at different points along the trail, actors and audience moving from point to point as the scenes changed. The gay costumes of the performers lent an agreeable touch of color to the monotoned woods, whose staid trees had doubtless never witnessed such a gladsome frolic as took place in the shade of their drooping branches." (Arthur Loveless, The Mountaineer, 1917)

"Joe Hazard was Little John and he and Harold Sexsmith fought a most exciting duel on a tree trunk that had fallen across the creek. This show was amateurish compared with the ambitious production put on June 17, 1923." (Elizabeth Kirkwood, The Mountaineer, 1930)

Here is a short history of The Mountaineers Players published in The Mountaineer Magazine in 2014.