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37 desolate landscape 37 McPheron brothers 37 frontierswoman 37 Michelle LaVaughn Robinson 37 Hooverville 37 roughnecks 37 everyman 37 buffalo roamed 37 vivid portrait 37 millworker 37 rustic 37 grizzled 37 Arturo Bandini 37 semidesert 37 Jimmy O'Pharrow 36 Suavai Ioane 36 Nagin janitor 36 hermitic 36 frontiersman 36 frontiersmen 36 suburbia 36 podunk 36 fur trappers 36 vividly evoked 36 arid 36 mud hut villages 36 hayseed 36 Joads 36 Doylestown Brosnan 36 Everytown USA 36 burgs 36 fertile lowlands 36 ghettoes 36 thickly settled 36 Villa Fiorito 36 rugged individualism 36 palatial estates 36 Rooster Byron 36 hobo jungles 36 Acatama desert 36 Williamsburg Bushwick 36 rolling hills 36 sheep herders 36 teeming slums 36 grandfather homesteaded 36 urban ghettos 36 hinterlands 36 Llewelyn Moss 36 squalour 36 agriculturally rich 36 immigrant steelworker 36 windswept 36 mule skinner 36 housepainter 36 sheepherder 36 ghettos 36 shuttered steel mills 36 scrubby 36 sprawling Navajo reservation 36 Matanuska Susitna Valley 36 unpaved streets 36 Quahog RI 36 cowmen 36 dusty plains 36 gruff 36 brownstone Brooklyn 36 sharecropping 36 Mormon pioneers 36 desolate plains 36 itinerant preacher 36 stately mansions 36 Las Chepas 36 roustabouts 36 verdant 36 Fuerte Apache 36 Scooptown 36 downtrodden 36 brother Dickie Eklund 36 herding livestock 36 borscht belt 36 great grandfather homesteaded 36 barren expanses 36 hillbilly 36 nondescript 36 cowboy 36 Kornfield Kounty 36 gentrifiers 36 Flatbush Brooklyn 36 nonurban 36 tableland 36 Marcy Projects 36 Shawville Quebec 36 postindustrial 36 Micky Ward Mark Wahlberg 36 outport 36 hobo jungle 36 peripatetic 36 quaint 36 sandy wasteland 36 lame sitcommy cliches 36 shuttered storefronts 36 Frances Ethel Gumm 36 redneck hillbilly 36 grizzled veteran 36 Rockwellian 36 urban homesteaders 36 Slumdog Danny Boyle 35 salty tongued 35 rapidly gentrifying 35 Pueblos Unidos 35 clapboard houses 35 moonshining 35 eightysomething 35 country bumpkin 35 bare knuckled 35 brickmaking 35 hometown 35 cannibalistic killer 35 farmbelt 35 flatland 35 grazing herds 35 brickyards 35 lush rolling hills 35 semiliterate 35 ungentrified 35 tiny hamlet 35 DeSangro 35 yeoman farmer 35 WASP y 35 Santiago Munez Kuno Becker 35 affectionate portrait 35 Searchlight Nevada 35 fur trapper 35 quaint storefronts 35 desertlike 35 vaqueros 35 unremarkable 35 lush farmland 35 rickety shack 35 rustics 35 badlands 35 Beit Daras 35 lush farmlands 35 Santiago Munez 35 hustlers 35 semi nomadic 35 literary modernism 35 Pig Sty 35 scorching deserts 35 bustling 35 weatherbeaten 35 treeless plains 35 Mongolian steppes 35 white picket fences 35 arid scrubland 35 Larry Gopnik 35 desolate expanse 35 sleepy 35 stony hills 35 Tacambaro Mexico 35 barroom brawler 35 hard scrabble upbringing 35 agrarian 35 Xalisco 35 grindingly poor 35 Roxbury Dorchester 35 homesteader 35 tony suburbs 35 novelist Larry McMurtry 35 homesteading 35 fertile crescent 35 Charles Kuralt 35 raggedy 35 landowning businessman 35 ranching 35 vaudeville circuit 35 ragamuffin 35 midwesterners 35 llama herder 35 milkman Tevye 35 trainer Cus D' Amato 35 religiously homogeneous 35 peopled 35 backstreets 35 shtetl 35 humble 35 XIT Ranch 35 sparsely settled 35 windswept plains 35 Chihuahuan desert 35 tile roofed houses 35 Churro sheep 35 shanty town 35 apple cheeked 35 backblocks 35 street toughs 35 chilangos 35 scrappy 35 railroad brakeman 35 bandit infested 35 bohemians 35 rugged highlands 35 revolutionary Pancho Villa 35 Pentacostal church 35 modest beginnings 35 Boot Heel 35 sharpshooter Annie Oakley 35 strivers 35 cornfields 35 swampy 35 bartender Vince Papale 35 goat herding 35 Ramapo Mountains 35 wilds 35 Chappaqua Westchester 35 SJ Reidhead 35 Sinkai 35 unpretentious 35 Nadirs depicting 35 economically deprived 35 yokel 35 wanderer 35 slums 35 Butcher Holler 35 rock ribbed 35 menial jobs 35 Meeink 35 idylls 35 transplanted Texan 34 farmwife 34 wildcatting 34 Bachi Yurt 34 harsh realities 34 reclusively 34 journeymen 34 sylvan 34 street urchin 34 Yorkshire moors 34 Himalayan plateau 34 bucolic bliss 34 lunchpail mentality 34 surburban 34 Cicely Alaska 34 white clapboard farmhouse 34 Nondalton 34 Maycomb Alabama 34 Presley Poke Salad 34 aw shucks charm 34 picturesque 34 bohemian 34 Jimmy Markum 34 bucolic countryside 34 Siouan 34 estancias 34 old codger 34 boyhood pals 34 Lenape Indians 34 urban underclass 34 organizer Cesar Chavez 34 Glod 34 Edna Ferber novel 34 workaday 34 Doug MacRay 34 Studs Lonigan 34 adventured 34 Jason Willaford 34 emigrated 34 corrugated iron shack 34 Beaver Cleaver 34 Nearings 34 fertile plains 34 roustabout 34 plains 34 desolate desert 34 wealthier whiter 34 called Budweis 34 makeshift shacks 34 Burkesville Ky. small 34 tummler 34 brass knuckled 34 leafy suburb 34 homeboy 34 grinding poverty 34 gently rolling hills 34 ranchlands 34 shoeshine boy 34 peasant 34 clapboard 34 foothills 34 GRANT PAULSEN 34 sweat stained 34 rancher Jeremy Irons 34 ancestor Falmouth Kearney 34 peripatetic childhood 34 formative 34 Mifflin Kenedy 34 Bellevue Maruca Kovac 34 pecan groves 34 Tyrones 34 Little Diomede 34 agrarian society 34 knockaround 34 Holywood Northern Ireland 34 postcolonial Africa 34 farmgirl 34 midwesterner 34 brash 34 sandy soiled 34 opulent seaside 34 tinsmith 34 Horatio Alger 34 cloistered 34 Papa Pilgrim 34 folkways 34 racially stratified 34 nomadically 34 midcity 34 fleabag hotels 34 arid desert 34 cherub faced 34 herding cattle 34 craggy mountains 34 El Paso Juárez 34 unpretty 34 cloistered monks 34 bricklayer 34 New Orleanians Chopin 34 Latino immigrants 34 immigrated 34 Juristy 34 idolized Roberto Clemente 34 Michael Oher Quinton 34 polyglot 34 aristocratic upbringing 34 rugged individualists 34 prizefighter 34 wheelwright 34 sharecropped 34 Tamashek 34 relative obscurity 34 thriving metropolis 34 overeducated 34 pastoral idyll 34 Jez Butterworth riotous 34 Max Yasgur dairy 34 gun toting gangster 34 wandering barefoot 34 honky tonks 34 Max Yasgur 34 Llewelyn Moss Josh Brolin 34 farmwork 34 leafy suburbs 34 Nullabor Plain 34 demimonde 34 stately manor 34 fringes 34 grittiest neighborhoods 34 Honeydripper Lounge 34 Aymara Quechua 34 sprawling 34 hobo 34 medieval fiefdom 34 ceaseless toil 34 wretched slums 34 seventysomething 34 French Huguenots 34 pop. 34 Ivy League educated 34 uneasy coexistence 34 Casamance region 34 picket fenced 34 sagebrush dotted 34 squalid slums 34 fatherless 34 Inez Ky. 34 Californios 34 chronicles 34 Abdelhak Ettouri Moroccan 34 rocky hillsides 34 racially homogenous 34 Chesuncook 34 barely literate 34 Mexican Federale 34 cowboy Curly McLain 34 exurban 34 outlaw biker 34 Abuela Claudia 34 scruffily dressed 34 hermit monks 34 seedy 34 Eilis Lacey 34 unwed teenage mother 33 Sephardic Jew 33 Buddy Bolden 33 Floods ravage Pakistan 33 Southern juke joints 33 teenage runaways 33 multimillionaire 33 waxes nostalgic 33 seamy 33 Cherien Dabis Amreeka 33 Gbagbo Bete tribe 33 ultra Orthodox Lubavitcher sect 33 rural piney hills 33 Noo Yawk 33 fictionalized tale 33 folksy 33 favelas shantytowns 33 idyllic countryside 33 sagebrush flats 33 Curly Putman 33 workingclass 33 skied competitively 33 blacksmith 33 quintessential 33 toughs 33 Rust Belt 33 desolate moonscape 33 staunch abolitionist 33 gravelly voiced 33 sympathetically portrayed 33 Crowe Cal McAffrey 33 Director Debra Granik 33 hilly forested 33 sheep ranching 33 upper crust 33 homespun tales 33 migrant farmworkers 33 legend Waylon Jennings 33 Nuyorican 33 sun bleached 33 Maycomb 33 drama Un Prophete 33 rube 33 scrubby plains 33 Bed Stuy Brooklyn 33 playwright Lorraine Hansberry 33 privileged upbringing 33 flâneur 33 suburban 33 Kleinzahler 33 slum 33 Canadaville 33 moose hunter 33 barren windswept 33 gentrified 33 bohemian enclave 33 hod carrier 33 barroom brawlers 33 lunch pail 33 Lubavitch Hasidic 33 itinerate 33 citified 33 moonshiners 33 untamed wilderness 33 gentry 33 Timbuctoo 33 bitter clingers 33 Eastward ho 33 seamiest 33 birthplace 33 bootblack 33 preternaturally gifted 33 ragamuffins 33 hill billy 33 verdant rolling hills 33 famed frontiersman 33 Tarahumara Indians 33 seedier side 33 blue collar lunch pail 33 Hispanic Pilsen 33 Pennsburg quaint 33 shined shoes 33 dirt floored 33 garment sweatshops 33 sprawling shantytowns 33 summered 33 bustling cosmopolitan 33 weed choked 33 ramshackle huts 33 cowpoke 33 Koyukuk River 33 nomadic hunter gatherer 33 subsistence farming 33 Dickens novels 33 sparsely populated 33 nomadic herding 33 Walt Wingfield 33 borderland 33 verdant valleys 33 homespun 33 megalopolises 33 Wiergate 33 heartland 33 vaudeville entertainer 33 graybeard 33 pugnacious streetwise 33 Barentsburg 33 warrior Shaka Zulu 33 wooded hills 33 indentured servant 33 cotton plantations 33 Hemingway esque 33 Bliss Cavendar 33 affable approachable 33 Degonia Springs 33 peasant garb 33 Medina Wasl 33 Yukon Kuskokwim Delta 33 bucolic idyll 33 hoodlum 33 Basque sheepherders 33 mudbrick houses 33 travails 33 Fear grips 33 self described Newyorkrican 33 lilly white 33 picture postcard 33 Pennine moors 33 Lars Lindstrom 33 tin roofed houses 33 rugged hills 33 Petionville encampment 33 garrulous 33 cattle herding 33 Unionport near 33 Shelby Miss. 33 Cherokee Mankiller remembered 33 fatherless childhood 33 eccentric 33 dusty deserts 33 singlewide trailer 33 mud encrusted 33 stockyards 33 banjo pickers 33 desert expanse 33 thuggish 33 chronicle 33 brassiest 33 Dust Bowl 33 Dantean 33 latchkey kid 33 camel herders 33 gangbanger 33 battle scarred 33 Barrio Viejo 33 peach orchard 33 emancipated slave 33 ink stained wretch 33 saloonkeeper 33 professorial demeanor 33 seamy underbelly 33 lawman Wyatt Earp 33 petite bourgeoisie 33 intertwined fates 33 Japanese internment camp 33 tent revivals 33 cowhands 33 Catskills Mountains 33 Trenchtown 33 milkman 33 Ozark Mountains 33 milked cows 33 childhood 33 Nicolae Staicu leader 33 barren 33 foulmouthed 33 Lawrence Arvey skipped 33 Brooklynese 33 Adoring fans 33 Bodeen Texas 33 ruggedly handsome 33 livings 33 grindhouses 33 Tuskegee airman 33 Teotitlan del Valle 33 wretchedly poor 33 midwestern 33 writer Calvin Trillin 33 Von Mahlsdorf 33 faraway 33 Purépecha 33 semi autobiographical 33 hippie 33 Vito Corleone 33 slaveholding 33 destitute 33 squalor 33 hobos 33 juke joint 33 Romulus Linney prolific 33 drifters 33 Gogol Ganguli 33 boardinghouse 33 knobby kneed 33 seamy underside 33 colonialization 33 gangsta pimp 33 junkman 32 WASPy 32 gentle rolling hills 32 abusive alcoholic 32 Buenavista Tomatlan 32 sheepherders 32 Gogol Kal Penn 32 Spontaneous celebrations 32 eccentrics 32 Slumdog Millionaire rags 32 Bible Belt 32 forgotten backwater 32 bohos 32 Bat Masterson 32 shanty towns 32 Tushar Mountains 32 shiftless 32 exurb 32 Little Italys 32 Birobidzhan 32 Mongolian steppe 32 poverty striken 32 searchers scoured forests 32 Josey Aimes 32 revenuer 32 notorious mobster 32 snowcapped mountains 32 Misty Upham 32 Flor Paz Vega 32 fertile Rift Valley 32 hippie commune 32 laundress 32 Tuareg nomads 32 Mumbai teeming slums 32 lumberman 32 evangelist preacher 32 Teton Mountains 32 brawny 32 hunter gatherer tribe 32 Dickensian 32 Otha Turner 32 DJay Terrence Howard 32 perched atop hill 32 walkable livable 32 sun baked 32 villiage 32 patrician 32 Wildfire explodes 32 steaming jungles 32 Woodrell 32 picturesque surroundings 32 loosely autobiographical 32 upbringings 32 rugged masculinity 32 Waspy 32 bib overalls 32 pizza joints 32 Elise Santora 32 kolkhoz 32 Bokapahari 32 Onita Higdon 32 Euphrates River tributary 32 steelworker 32 subsistent 32 Vito Scaletta 32 walnut groves 32 Las Milpas 32 gun toting 32 Eloxochitlan 32 dingiest 32 El Fraile 32 Laurentian Mountains 32 Alego 32 Oscar Bonavena 32 Craftsman bungalows 32 Californio 32 comic strip Li'l Abner 32 lace curtain 32 HW Dillon Freasier 32 semi literate 32 Kuskokwim River 32 Congregationalist 32 Baluchistan province bordering 32 pulp fiction writer 32 San Sebastian Nopalera 32 Leatherstocking Tales 32 Montauk windswept beach 32 beer swillin 32 corrugated metal shacks 32 grandparents emigrated 32 carny 32 Somali Bantu 32 monkish 32 arid terrain 32 slackerdom 32 fond remembrances 32 penniless 32 uncharted wilderness 32 multicultural melting pot 32 rutted dirt road 32 griots 32 Loneliest Road 32 drama Winter Bone 32 mosquito infested swamp 32 verdant pastures 32 bitingly satirical 32 Les Bosquets 32 Bukharian Jews 32 Huxtables 32 urban 32 broken Mohebullah Taliban 32 backroad 32 Ree Dolly 32 fortified enclaves 32 lawless 32 cosmopolitan flair 32 native 32 Dolphus Shields 32 Faulknerian 32 Podunk 32 Saint Sauveur des Monts 32 Puerto Ricans Colombians 32 roadhouses 32 cowman 32 native Vermonter 32 picturesque riverside 32 deindustrialized 32 Vast stretches 32 textile mill 32 blackland prairie 32 Mixtec 32 Sheik Aifan 32 neo burlesque club 32 prideful 32 nomadic hunter gatherers 32 semirural 32 Domremy 32 bare knuckle 32 Reared 32 decidedly unglamorous 32 bluesmen 32 hitchhikes 32 steepled church 32 unforgiving 32 bootstraps biography 32 grittiest 32 hilly 32 gleaming skyscrapers 32 unprepossessing 32 Midwestern 32 Winlock Wash. 32 streetwise 32 Caracas barrio 32 rural hinterland 32 cinderblock 32 backroads 32 hills 32 thug 32 Fiercely independent 32 ramblin 32 beatnik poet 32 cockroach infested apartment 32 Sierra Madres 32 unglamorous 32 Govan shipyards 32 tattered clothes 32 lane blacktops 32 Gran Torino Eastwood 32 boonies 32 shotgun shacks 32 LC Cheever 32 ex con 32 Casal di Principe 32 oil wildcatter 32 Heinzes 32 Bomont 32 outskirts 32 dilettante 32 Rio favelas 32 dairy farm 32 grotesque perversion 32 Sayra Paulina Gaitan 32 Lionel Rogosin 32 peasant farmers 32 nomad 32 twentysomething 32 Subcommander Marcos 32 Mabel Dodge Luhan 32 artesian springs 32 Gwich'in Athabascan 32 Bible thumpin 32 Rif mountains 32 shoed horses 32 horribly horribly deranged 32 leafy enclave 32 sandy plains 32 mud walled 32 dusty alleyways 32 winos 32 journeyman 32 cockney 32 Tug Fork River 32 Heiberger Ala. 32 prospector 32 shantytown 32 treeless 32 chitlin circuit 32 nomadic shepherds 32 Catfish Row 32 unskilled laborer 32 inhospitable desert 32 Rif Mountains 32 meatpacking 32 unheralded 32 grittier 32 orphan Oliver Twist 32 desert 32 megalopolis 32 patient Irving Shaffino 32 brash cocky 32 Bobby Dupea 32 close knit 32 forested foothills 32 pittance