True West Essays

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True West

The San Gabriel foothills rise like tombstones over the city of Duarte, California, their black silhouettes limned against the setting desert sun. In the valley, it’s warm all year, home to avocado, orange, and walnut groves, grown by an older...

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True West

Growing up on a dusty ranch in rural California, a young Sam Shepard was accustomed to a hardened and seemingly fabled nature of the American West, one that seemed to breathe the kind of utter wildness one might only think imaginable in a John...