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In 1871 Leland Stanford spied a lush wheat field on dry prairie in the central San Joaquin Valley. “Wonderful! Here we must ...

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“And I was like, ‘I’ve been writing them for 21 years,” laughs Macfarlane. “It’s just you haven’t read them.” ...