The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest Naanchil Natarajan There began a rich

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and a shocking ending that shakes the town of Big Lake to its very foundation

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The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest Naanchil Natarajan There began a richIn this abundant space and isolation, the energy lords extract their bounty of natural resources, and the curators of mass destruction once mined their egregious weapons and reckless acts. It is a land of absolutes, of passion and indifference, lush textures and inscrutable tensions. Here violence can push beauty to the edge of a razor blade. . . . Thus Ellen Meloy describes a corner of desert hard by the San Juan River in southeastern Utah, a place