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  • In Search of Abbey’s Grave

    July 4, 2009

    • James Gaitis © 2009  Here’s my understatement of the day:  In a literary sense, it is an exceedingly difficult challenge for all but the very best of naturalist writers to follow in the heavy bootworn footsteps of Edward Abbey.   Abbey, whom Larry McMurtry called “the Thoreau of the American West,” was so radically original in technique and delivery, so aggressively sincere in his ...