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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rowland, Russell.
    In open spaces: a novel / Russell Rowland,
            p. cm
        ISBN 0-06-008434-0
            1. Montana—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3618.088 16 2002
813′.6—dc21

2001051354

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