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Reflecting on the 1970s

“I’d say the most memorable story from the ’70s is in Tom Bell’s first issue, about ‘the shame’ of a fellow rancher poisoning eagles to protect his lambs.”

—Betsy Marston, Paonia, Colorado

“By the early 1970s, Vietnam raged on, bloodier than ever. Many civil rights leaders had been

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