FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, Dzenad Bicic’s beard wasn’t just rare, it was disturbingly rare. “It was shocking and weird for everyone,” said the 39-year-old barber, who runs Geno’s Barberia in New ...

Fifteen years ago, Dzenad Bicic’s beard wasn’t just rare, it was disturbingly rare. “It was shocking and weird for everyone,” said the 39-year-old barber, who runs Geno’s Barberia in New ...

But Jean Yarborough, the 72-year-old great-granddaughter of Baker and a Pueblo, Colo., resident, vividly remembered stories her grandmother told her about the mountain man.

From the shaggy mountain man beard to the perfectly sculpted goatee, facial hair is everywhere these days—which can be frustrating for the many men out there who can’t grow a full beard. But ...