Wallace Stegner makes this statement at the end of "Coda", a letter included in his book The Sound of Mountain Water. ... Stegner's book Wolf Willow concerned itself with accounting his childhood experiences in southern Saskatchewan and intertwining these stories with historical information about the area. In The Sound of Mountain Water Stegner talks about his first encounter with a mountain river and how after living on the prairie for his whole childhood the sight and sounds of this rushing water moved him greatly. ... In The Sound of Mountain Water Stegner writes mostly about the Ameri...

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For a book that seems to look down upon racism, these passages are rather confusing. ... That is not to say that the book is not exciting, quite the contrary in fact. ... Another appreciable characteristic of the book is the reference to the "Last of the Mohicans". ... Cooper believes that Native American languages favor the sound of silence, the kind of silence looked down upon in disdain by French and English languages. ... Unfortunately, Cooper's readers have demanded no credentials of any kind, or even attempted to question why Cooper may be an authority on Native Americans, and thi...

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