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The Roundtable

Ted Conover's "Cheap Land Colorado"

By Joe Donahue
Published January 3, 2023 at 11:33 AM EST
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From Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author Ted Conover comes "Cheap Land Colorado," a passage through an America lived wild and off the grid, where along with independence and stunning views come fierce winds, neighbors with criminal pasts, and minimal government and medical services.

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