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Originally Posted by Archaea
It sounds a bit like the Cowboy Poet's in Elko. When it first started, it was legitimate, with some guys really being cowboys who could turn a phrase. By now, it's a bunch of cityfolk, looking like John Travolta in Midnight Cowboy.
Outsiders don't know the frontier and should stop writing about it, because they are schlocky second rate poseurs.
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Not always. Remeber Edward Abbey came from back East (pennsylvania?) and IMO no one captured the arid desert west more fully than Abbey. (SU will pop a cork and blather on about STegner; Stegner did the people; Abbey didn't like the poepl, he liked the place; the land).