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allace Stegner won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Angle of Re-


pose (Doubleday, 1971). “Angle of re- pose” is the hillside slope at which dirt and pebbles stop rolling down- hill. This lyrical yet straightforward novel vividly contrasts the cultured East and the still wide-open West following the Civil War. The story is told by historian


Lyman Ward, who lives in the Grass Valley, Calif., cottage of his grand- parents, Oliver and Susan Ward, and their fi ctitious lives are created in a way that reads like fact. After meeting in 1868, they cor-


respond for fi ve years before they meet again and marry. Oliver is


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“more man than gentleman,” and Susan is “more gentlewoman than woman.” Nevertheless, they sustain their marriage in California, Mexico, Colorado, and Idaho as he works on mining and irrigation projects. She partly supports the family with her self-illustrated writings about the West for leading magazines. The Empire Mine State Historic


Park* in Grass Valley is the site of a gold mine that operated for more than 100 years, closing in 1956. It has its own cottage (above), blacksmith shop (right), and living-history tour (above right) and is open for visiting, hiking, picnicking, and weddings. —Col. Glenn Pribus, USAF (Ret), and Marilyn Pribus


*online: Learn more at www.empiremine.org. PHOTOS: RICHARD BANNISTER


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