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The Backbone of the World: A Portrait of a Vanishing Way of Life Along the Continental Divide by Frank Clifford

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Monday, March 17 through Tuesday, April 1, 2003. Read by Norman Gilliland.

A journey along the Continental Divide, exploring the unforgiving landscape and a disappearing way of life.

(Broadway Books; ISBN-10: 0767907019)

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Theme: Robert Beaser: Mountain Songs–Barbara Allen; Eliot Fisk, guitar; Paula Robison, flute (MusicMasters Classics 67151-2)

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