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Wichita

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1940s

1943

Terry Allen is born in Wichita, Kansas.

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1950s

1951

Bruce Conner begins undergraduate studies at the Municipal University of Wichita (now Wichita State University).

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1960s

1962

Bruce Conner and Jean Conner move back to Wichita, Kansas, and then to the Boston area, living briefly at Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert’s commune.

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1970s

mid-1970s 1974

Bruce Conner is considered part of the Wichita Group, which includes playwright Michael McClure and publisher of the Rat Bastard poets David Haselwood.

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