"I was just very interested in the American……" — Peter Matthiessen

"I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes."

Peter Matthiessen

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