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Ep 582 - O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

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The Importance of Having a Horse

Yvar is an animal whisperer sort of. You could please Ranger, Ranger class sort of guy. Papa Bergston moved his family over from Scandinavia and Catherine goes into the fact that many of the emigres are leaving behind situations where there aren't enough opportunities for them. And they have this innate belief that like, well, we'll just go where there is land because we're from a place where we can't have land. Sure. So we'll go there, but the land doesn't want to be tamed. Like it doesn't wants to yield. Most of them were not farmers, most like at least the characters that we hear about like they worked in cities

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