I loved Stegner’s “Angle of Repose,” but in the end it was basically an argument that the West should never have been settled, and that all the Western water projects, from Lake Powell on down to the most modest, were a mistake.
I’m with you on that. I would have loved to have been able to sit down with Stegner over a couple of beers and make an effort to convert his thinking a bit.
You’re right about his gift for writing.