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Harold Glen (Hal) Borland was born on May 14, 1900, in Sterling, Nebraska, to William A. Borland (whose family had arrived in Nebraska via covered wagon) and Sarah Clinaburg Borland. The family later moved to eastern Colorado and settled on an arid, hostile, and isolated homestead.
Between 1918 and 1920, Borland attended the University of Colorado, but he dropped out of school to become an associate editor for his father’s newspaper, Flagler News. After one year of working for this small newspaper, Borland set out for the big cities, stopping in New York City for a...
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