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Letter From the Desert: Ed Abbey and the Border Wall

Letter From the Desert: Ed Abbey and the Border Wall

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Chris Clarke
Oct 11, 2019
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One of the most nuanced honors one can receive in this business of writing about the desert is to be compared to the late Edward Abbey, author of Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang. Abbey, who died 30 years ago this year at age 62, is one of those larger than life cultural figures that stands in the public mind for far more than his actual outp…

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