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32 Death Outside of Alpine, Texas Cloaked in goldenweed he arrived in the canyon’s violently changing colors, chess grass draining into a valley of clay flats and blackened rabbitbrush. When the manzanita was flowering he became imperial as the twisted bark of that red shrub. Gravel flung in nets by the wet roadside, a staggered procession of riders shouldering past. His body held like light over a last curve. ...

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