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Crossing the Columbia River bar at Astoria Astoria The Town Bisbee Became After the Copper Ran Out Bisbee Cody and the Canyon Road to the Absarokas Cody Leadville, the highest city in the United States Leadville In Moab, the uranium boom left more than a pile Moab The decade-long boom of Rhyolite, Nevada Rhyolite Wallace and the Interstate Above It Wallace What Chinati Did to Marfa Marfa What the Wind Keeps at Bodie Bodie Cars Standing Still on the Nebraska Prairie Alliance The Green River Melon Fields Green River The Copper Town Built on a Slope That Moves Jerome The Middle of the Country Is a Field in Lebanon Lebanon The Wind That Comes Down Out of Paradise Valley Livingston Medora, at the Edge of the Badlands Medora Why the North Cascades Highway Closes Every Winter Washington Pass The Fog That Defines Point Reyes Point Reyes Rachel, Nevada, Where the Silence Runs Deep Rachel The King of Roads Columbia River Gorge The Drugstore That Gave Away Free Ice Water Wall Whittier, the town that lives under one roof Whittier Santa Fe in the Off-Season Santa Fe
A yellow Columbia River bar pilot boat heading out under the Astoria-Megler Bridge, a crewman in red on deck
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Crossing the Columbia River bar at Astoria

At Astoria, the Columbia River and the Pacific meet across a shifting bar of sand that every ship bound for Portland must cross.
A passenger train running along the base of eroded desert bluffs
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The Green River Melon Fields

Where the Utah desert meets the Green River, irrigated fields grow a crop the red country has no right to permit.
A mown park with scattered trees below a snow-streaked mountain range
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The Wind That Comes Down Out of Paradise Valley

In Livingston, Montana, the wind out of Paradise Valley is less weather event than town condition—it arrives, stays, and shapes the place.
A headland ridge running out to sea with a lighthouse at its end, in black and white
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The Fog That Defines Point Reyes

For much of the year, the fog at Point Reyes is not weather; it is the place itself.
A single tall apartment block below steep mountains and low cloud, across an empty lot
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Whittier, the town that lives under one roof

Most of Whittier, Alaska, lives in one fourteen-story building at the water's edge, with the rain and the wild Sound right outside.
A dirt two-track running through sagebrush toward a red rock mesa
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What the High Desert Does to Your Sense of Time

Six weeks at seven thousand feet, where the light is the only clock that matters.
A Pacific headland of wet black rock and windbent conifers going into afternoon fog above the surf
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Fog Season on the North Coast

For three months a year the Pacific erases the shoreline every afternoon at two. The people who prefer it that way.