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True Grit: New Mexico's Western Mythos

By Phil Parker on Sep. 13, 2012

IN 2008, THE LURID DRAMA No Country for Old Men won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. A gloriously creepy essay on violence—in which a madman toting a cattle gun teases victims into calling a coin…

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