All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
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John Wesley Powell fought in the Civil War and it cost him an arm. But it didn't stop him from exploring the American West. Here Wallace Stegner, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, gives us a thrilling account …
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