## Metadata * Author: [[Wallace Stegner]] * ASIN: B002DMZ9YK * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002DMZ9YK ## Highlights The Growth of American Thought was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1944. — location: [113](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B002DMZ9YK&location=113) ^ref-13806 --- conserve the West’s natural wealth so that it could play to the full its potential part in the future of the United States. — location: [139](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B002DMZ9YK&location=139) ^ref-34625 --- Furthermore, if in large parts of the West the individual landowner required a homestead of at least four square miles, then the traditional pattern of settlement would result in his living in fearful isolation from his kind. Loneliness, hardship, and social deterioration would inevitably follow. — location: [221](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B002DMZ9YK&location=221) ^ref-8228 --- The Mission of the North American People, — location: [282](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B002DMZ9YK&location=282) ^ref-18756 --- government geologists in support of the theory that settlement improved the climate, that in very truth “rain follows the plow.” — location: [293](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B002DMZ9YK&location=293) ^ref-63432 --- my best friend is a man who’ll git me a book I ain’t read.” — location: [434](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B002DMZ9YK&location=434) ^ref-36698 ---