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The James Boys
Chapter OneAt four-forty-five on the afternoon of July 7, 1876, the Number 4 Missouri Pacific Express, made up of two sleeping cars, three day coaches, and two baggage cars, pulled…
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The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw
Bruce Barcott, author of The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier, is a contributing editor at Outside magazine. His feature articles have appeared in The New…
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The Logic of Life
Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no…
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The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair
GEORGE PLIMPTON was the originator of “participatory journalism” and was the editor of The Paris Review for fifty years. His books include Paper Lion, Out of My League, The Bogey…
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