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“The West is remote and vast,” says historian Patricia Limerick; “its isolation and distance will release us from conflict; this is where we can get away from each other. But the workings of history carried an opposite lesson. The West was not where we escaped each other, but where we all met.”1
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Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk (New York: Riverhead Books, 1996), 244.
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Wehrey, J. (2006). Afterword. In: Voices from This Long Brown Land. Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-63573-3_14
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