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Artists gone wild

By Brad Dokken
ESPNOutdoors.com

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

KARLSTAD, Minn. — There's a scene in the movie "Fargo," — the offbeat, distinctly Minnesotan tale of a kidnap scheme gone awry — in which the wildlife artist husband of fictional Brainerd Police Chief Marge Gunderson laments the fact that he finished behind one of the Hautman brothers in a postage stamp contest. Instead of gracing the 29-cent stamp, Norm Gunderson's second-place mallard painting was relegated to the 3-cent stamp. "Hautman's blue-winged teal got the 29 ce ...

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