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Robert Caro is unsure whether America understands the heroism involved in enduring the loneliness of frontier life.

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“So I don't think, and with all the wonderful books that have been written, I'm, I'm not sure that America understands the heroism of just being lo- forgetting Indians and raiders, just being the loneliness of what, what life was like for these pe- for, for these people.”
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