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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Gary Lewis / The Bulletin
May 7, 2009
The land lay empty around a few outbuildings, a railroad station and a telegraph office. A ridge of hills with scattered junipers lay behind them. To the left and right, a vast, open plain swept to a far horizon that offered nothing but a purple hint of mountains beyond.
There was no sound, save....
