In 1975, he was hanged in effigy over his successful resistance to a proposed coal-fired power plant in southern Utah; the area later became a national monument.
“I was born with a hard eye,” he told The Hollywood Reporter in 2014. “The way I saw things, I would see what was wrong. I could see what could be better. I developed kind of a dark view of life, looking at my own country.”
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