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Article: HIT THE ROAD
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- Santa Fe Reporter
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- September 23, 2009
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HIT THE ROAD
In macro or micro, the Wild West never fails to fascinate.
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As Americans become more mobile and more connected to the rest of the world's population, the idea of a regional cultural identity becomes harder to identify. Suburbs blend seamlessly into cities and back into suburbs; restaurants and stores repeat as though viewed through a zoetrope. However, the American West remains distinct in its desolateness. Though our country has been settled from coast to coast, huge swaths of territory this side of the Mississippi remain uninhabited and undeveloped.
If you, like me, are not from the West, just the sheer distance between major ...