Zoellner walked eight hundred miles across Arizona, roughly the diagonal, and used the walk to work through the state he grew up in. Chapters alternate between the trail — heat, water, private land, dogs, the people who pick up a walking stranger — and essays on the things that made Arizona what it is: The Colorado River deal, the copper mines, the retirement industry, Barry Goldwater, the border, the water law, the Mormons, the sheriffs. He’s critical and affectionate at once.
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