<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=554302" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Gone are the Hard Men</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gone are the hard men, <br>no longer scouting trails across the west, <br>nor leading wagon trains to Oregon, <br>nor trapping the beaver in far valleys, <br>nor lonely mapping the wilderness<br>in the van of civilization, <br>nor building railroads across America with<br>shovels and mauls and appetites for hard work<br>and hard women and whiskey by the barrel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where are they gone, these hero men, <br>now the frontiers have been plowed down<br>and wilderness long fled to the city? <br>Where are they gone, these child-men, <br>now the nation is civilized and schooled<br>and technology mocks their souls? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They are in the prisons of America.<br>They are in the asylums of America.<br>They are in the drunk-tanks of dreary, <br>self-righteous cities.<br>They are squatting beside a sad fire<br>near Sacramento tonight, <br>nursing their bottles of 'Mad Dog'<br>and eating canned Spam.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Daniel+Fox">Daniel Fox</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=554302" data-title="Gone are the Hard Men de Daniel Fox" data-description="Gone are the hard men, no longer scouting trails across the west, nor leading wagon trains to Oregon, nor trapping the beaver in far valleys, nor lonely mapping the wilderness in the van of civilization, nor building railroads across America ..."></div> </div> </div>

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