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Tag: The West

AP / Benoit Photo

A Day at the Races

By Deanne Stillman —

This is about horses and how they saved my family’s life, and how, one day, I would come to repay the favor.

Posted on Mar 6, 2012 READ MORE | 6 COMMENTS

U.S. Air Force / Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder

The Age of Thirst in the American West

By William deBuys, TomDispatch —

Consider it a taste of the future: the fire, smoke, drought, dust, and heat that have made life unpleasant, if not dangerous, from Louisiana to Los Angeles.