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Currents Spring 2006 |
 | | It should be important to all of us to find our own special locations, our own special sense of place—where our family history, personal history, or the history of a nation can be understood in a setting that reminds us of the commitment, sacrifice, and struggle of those who went before us. |
| | When I was a young woman, ladies dressed up to go downtown, and though spiked heels were a killing menace and hats were uncomfortable and hair-flattening, no female with self esteemed would allow herself to be seen on the street without matching hat, high heels, gloves, and handbag—nor, I might add, without distinct makeup. |
| | However, it was also the nation’s most difficult wagon road, mainly because of the arid terrain’s inadequate supply of water and livestock feed. |
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