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Article: A Remote Possibility; Want a ranch where you can really get away? Try Blue, Ariz. If you can find it.
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- The Washington Post
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- June 9, 2002
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WE SEE HER COMING FROM A WAYS OFF, 12-year-old Marci riding
bareback on her horse, splashing across the creek, weaving between
the sycamores, dramatic wall of mountain in the background. Soon
she's at our front door with a plate of her mother's homemade
cookies. Yesterday it was six fresh eggs, a gift from her chickens.
Marci sticks around, talks to us from high atop Snit's back. She
tells us she'll be one of three students this fall in the one-room
schoolhouse down the road, and any time the river floods she'll get
the day off. We are in Blue, Ariz., in the middle of the state's
remotest, wildest mountain country, an hour and a half from the
nearest paved road, being spoiled silly at the ...