Wallace Stegner quote: Under the rough and ridiculous circumstances of life in the Rocky Mountains there was something exciting and vital, full of ...

Under the rough and ridiculous circumstances of life in the Rocky Mountains there was something exciting and vital, full of rude poetry: the heartbeat of the West as it fought its way upward toward civilization.

~ Wallace Stegner ~

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