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3 unusual facts about Edward Abbey


Edward Abbey

While there, he was involved in a heated debate over his views on immigration, with an anarchist communist group known as Alien Nation.

A second, much larger wake was held in May, just outside his beloved Arches National Park, with such notables as Terry Tempest Williams and Wendell Berry speaking.

Neal E. Lambert

Lambert also was involved in editing and republishing the works of Western fiction by such authors as Edward Abbey.


Indiana, Pennsylvania

Arguably the most celebrated and notorious environmentalist author of the twentieth century, Edward Abbey (1927–1989), was born at the Indiana hospital and raised in Indiana and near the Indiana County towns and villages of Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, Tanoma, and Home, Pennsylvania.


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