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Let them eat Blake's: An excerpt from Behind the Slickrock Curtain

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Let them eat Blake's: An excerpt from Behind the Slickrock Curtain

Jonathan P. Thompson
Jan 6, 2020
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Let them eat Blake's: An excerpt from Behind the Slickrock Curtain

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A couple hours later, the ragged silhouette of Tsé Bit’a’í, or Shiprock, rose up ahead of Brautigan, obscured by the brown-yellow gauze of smog and dust and wildfire smoke. He turned eastward toward Farmington and followed the San Juan River through the borderland, where the northeastern edge of the Navajo Nation melds with the non-Indian world in an ec…

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