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    • Matt Farwell

    Matt Farwell emerged from the Wasatch Mountains in Utah forty years ago, and then grew up in Turkey, Germany, Virginia and New Mexico before dropping out of college to enlist in the Army infantry. After a sixteen month combat tour in Afghanistan with the 10th Mountain Division, and a two year stint at a Headquarters, he left the Army with an honorable discharge and became a writer. As the 10th Mountain Division song says, as a writer he goes where others dare not go, through the heat or cold or snow, although he prefers the high desert of New Mexico or southern Idaho.

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    Secrets of the Greenbrier

    By Matt Farwell

    Hide the secret in plain sight. This was Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn’s philosophy in the late 1950s when they built their 112,544-square-foot Congressional doomsday bunker 720 feet underground in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, concealed beneath a posh Gilded Age resort called The … Continue Reading
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    A Farewell to Dinosaurs

    By Matt Farwell

    Is a fallen Kong still King? Is any royal ape, once disarmed and rendered recumbent, deserving of the title of King? Is it still even royal?  These are my questions, as I shimmy up King Kong's flanks, scaling the fallen Eighth Wonder of the World. The forty-foot statue of the Great Ape ― once the … Continue Reading
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    Wheat Crop Disaster

    By Matt Farwell

    Dixon Palmer, a six-foot-two Kiowa warrior in a Cowboy hat, is the only man in Caddo County whose winter wheat isn’t failing. Caddo County, east of Kiowa County, is one of the top five wheat producing counties in Oklahoma. On the way to one of Dixon’s fields, we pass cattle turned out to graze on … Continue Reading