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  1. Wallace Stegner _ Wolf Willow

    It is a country to breed mystical people, egocentric people, perhaps poetic people. But not humble ones…Puny you may feel there, and vulnerable, but not unnoticed. This is a land to mark the sparrow's fall
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  2. Wallace Stegner _ Wolf Willow

    I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.
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  3. Wallace Stegner _ Wolf Willow

    What little strength he had left flowed out of him and was soaked up; his bones and veins and skin held nothing but tiredness and pain.
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  4. Wallace Stegner _ Wolf Willow

    The ferocious virtues that had been necessary for survival on the American frontier were theirs: they were men who lived freely, wastefully, independently, and they lived by killing--animals as a rule, men if necessary.
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  5. Wallace Stegner _ Wolf Willow

    In general the assumption of all of us, child or adult, was that this was a new country and that a new country had no history. History was something that applied to other places.
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  6. Wallace Stegner _ Wolf Willow

    The Cypress Hills massacre,...one of the final outrages of the literally lawless West...came...along that practical and symbolic divide, between the Canadian system of monopoly trading and the American system of competition, whiskey, bullets, exploitation, and extermination.
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