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The making of leaders
We need this open space preserved because it speaks silently back to our roots and to the challenge against which our character as a people was formed. Ours is a place which somehow has sent forth a strong lot of farmers, business leaders, military heroes, governors and American presidents over the centuries.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner has written: “It seems to me significant that the distinct downturn in our literature from hope to bitterness took place almost at the precise time when the frontier officially came to an end, in 1890, when the American way of life had begun to turn steadily urban and industrial.
“The more urban it ffas become, and the more frantic with technological change, the sicker and more embittered our literature and, I believe, our people have become . .
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