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A guest post by Zak Podmore and Writers on the Range

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By Zak Podmore via Writers on the Range

In 1998, when I was in fourth grade, I joined a class field trip to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. But when we got to Cortez, the road was barricaded. Hours earlier, three men had stolen a water-tanker truck and killed a police officer before fleeing into the desert. 

In his book Dead Run, writer Dan Schultz …

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