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Wallace Stegner is perhaps the greatest writer of the west, and some would say, most prolific, by any measure, of the twentieth century. He was a biographer, writer of fiction, non-fiction, essayist, and an original conservationist. He took the lone gun man myth out of the west and wrote about the communities and land of the worlds last frontier. A non mormon outsider who adopted Salt Lake City as his second home, Stegner has a deep respect for the people and places that were so wonderfully strange to him. I relate so much to him, as I read his words, it is sometimes scary. His writing is endlessly quotable and quietly funny. The Big Rock Candy Mountain is the first of his writings I have read and I think it gives a real look on what it means to live in and appreciatiate the west.