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Also: The West loses a fierce voice

The North Fork Valley in western Colorado. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.

The Canyon Country lost an important, fierce, and sometimes curmudgeonly voice last month when Jim Stiles died at his home in Clearwater, Kansas. Stiles founded the Canyon Country Zephyr in Moab, Utah, in 1989, and continued to publish, edit, and do much of the writing for the public…