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Letter From The Desert: Ray Mine

Letter From The Desert: Ray Mine

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Chris Clarke
Oct 10, 2018
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Salt River Canyon, Arizona
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Let us ignore, for the moment, the dozen square miles of missing desert valley between the Mineral and Dripping Springs mountain ranges: The Sonoran Desert air is full of black butterflies. And the air above the Mogollon Rim. Did they emerge in the rains brought by Hurricane Rosa? I don’t know. After the fir…

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