"Our forefathers were pioneers. So are we."
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Pittsburgh Memoranda (Santa Fe, NM: Writers' Editions, 1935), prologue, p. 1
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Haniel Long
Haniel Clark Long (March 9, 1888 – October 17, 1956) was an American poet, novelist, publisher and academic. He is best known for his novella, Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca (1936), a fictionalized account of the true story of a Spanish conquistador in 16th century North America.
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