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"ref": "1973 December 30, Guy Flatley, “Cowboy or Cop, Wayne Never Wanes”, in New York Times, retrieved 2021-11-01:",
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"ref": "1977, Bill Reed, Dogod, Thomas Nelson (Australia) (reprinted 2015 by Reed Independent)",
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