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At the Margins: Life on America’s Desert Frontier

October 3, 2009

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WONDER VALLEY, Calif. — Down a dirt lane south of Amboy Road, squatters and thieves have made the desert a dump. Torn mattresses, beer bottles, foam, pieces of old fencing, scraps of plastic and a trash barrel sprawl in a junk pile 10 meters long. Punished by the wind, bleached by the sun. It is… [Read more…]

Wonder Valley: The Untamed West

October 2, 2009

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“You live in the middle of nowhere,” my friend Andrew said when he visited me in the Inland Empire. Yes. Sort of. When I brought Zak to visit our office in San Bernardino, there was a straw-colored tumbleweed in the parking lot, perfectly round, about two feet tall. My knowledge of Riverside and San Bernardino… [Read more…]