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This early piece of the morning is mine.

Wallace Stegner

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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
Biographer
Environmentalist
Historian
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Lake Mills
Iowa
Early
Pieces
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Mines
Mine

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