Quartz Hill, California
Quartz Hill, California didn’t seem to want to draw attention to itself. You’d ask somebody where...
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Author: Paul Talbot
Glasgow, Montana
Glasgow, Montana needed a name back then. In 1887 a railroad clerk, presumably a man of wisdom and...
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Lancaster, California
Lancaster, California appeared more quickly than she anticipated. Time turned into something...
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Culver City, California
Culver City, California turns out to be unavoidable once you get wind she’s in town. You saw her...
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Harvey’s Lake Tahoe
Harvey’s Lake Tahoe may have been his final tormented thought. John Birges slipped away. He...
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Pioche, Nevada
Pioche, Nevada tethered him to solid ground. Solitude had been hard to find anyplace else. He...
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Kellogg, Idaho
Kellogg, Idaho groaned in the night. Whatever it was sounded close but could have been far away....
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Duvall, Washington
Duvall, Washington would always be the center of the world for her. She wore a sweater of unknown...
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Clovis, California
Clovis, California echoed with a clatter of castanets. In a malevolent roadhouse on the edge of...
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Goodyear, Arizona
Goodyear, Arizona no longer had cotton fields. They were gone. Not long ago Pima cotton stretched...
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Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Carlsbad Caverns National Park has been a World Heritage Site since 1995. Since 1986, when...
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Coaldale, Nevada
Coaldale, Nevada cheered him up. When the moon bathed his soiled skin and stardust fell, the town...
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