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Laramie: A Gem City Atlas Reveals an Uncharted West
by Chavawn Kelley, with Image Gallery and Audio

Rebecca Solnit’s purpose in Laramie was to discover if the model of map as blended narrative and visual feast, which she introduced in Infinite City, could be emulated in Laramie, Wyoming. Over the course of four weeks she immersed Master of Fine Arts and Environment and Natural Resources students in books, maps, and readings — inspiration and philosophies of place and representation. The result was Laramie: A Gem City Atlas.

Holding Pattern: A Melon's Cross-Border Journey from Farm to Fridge
by Megan Kimble

Every day between October and April, 3,000 semi-trailer trucks pass through Nogales. In the winter, 70 percent of produce on American supermarket shelves comes from Mexico, and most of that produce gets funneled through here. Although McAllen, Texas is seducing an increasing number of semis — with easier access to the Eastern Seaboard and a state legislature that understands a border functions as a membrane rather than a wall — the Mariposa port of entry in Nogales is still, for now, the Ellis Island of Mexican produce.

On the Trail of Mountain Lions
by Melissa L. Lamberton

We’ve crossed the inexact elevation line where grassland gives way to oak and piñon. I look back. The wooded sides of the Dragoon Mountains slope down to a plain of brittle grasses, spiked with the upright spears of blooming agave. It looks empty of people, but I can see the pale scar of the dirt road we drove here, the glimmer of cars on the freeway. This is ranching country, although in recent years subdivisions seeking scenic vistas have sprouted along Interstate 10.

Deepmaps: Reading Tim Robinson's Maps of Aran
by Eamonn Wall

Over the past decade, while writing a book on contemporary writers from the West of Ireland, and in my own way, tracing their connections to their American counterparts, I spent a great deal of time learning about how contemporary writers, working from various environmental and independent perspectives, have begun the process of remaking/remarking maps, of transforming military maps into deepmaps.