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Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"…or did you cling forever to the sentiment you wrote to Augusta Hudson from the bottom of failure in Boise Canyon—that not even Henry James’s expatriates were so exiled as you?"

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"I have made no chronology of their years in Boise Canyon. Except for a flurry during 1887, when for a while it seemed as if Henry Villard might find a place for them in his empire-building schemes, most of Grandmother’s letters are dated only by month and day, and could have been written any time between 1883 and 1888."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"It is an effort for me to imagine my way backward from the silent father I knew to the boy in Boise Canyon."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"Naturally I never saw the camp in Boise Canyon. Before I was old enough to hear about it, it was three hundred feet under water."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"…Frank Sargent … was found dead in his bed at the London and Idaho’s engineering camp in Boise Canyon."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"“I’d have to guess she was never really happy after, say, her thirty-seventh year, the last year when she lived an idyll in Boise Canyon.”"