“A mine is a horrible thing to behold—a brazen monument to environmental ruin.” Joy Williams writes about the sites she sees during the 950-mile drive she undertakes four times a year.
I drive from Tucson, Arizona, to Centennial, Wyoming, and back twice a year, with my two German shepherds, in a 2004 Toyota Tundra . I used to drive on 10 East, taking the shortcut to Hatch, New Mexico, before hooking up to 25 and heading north to Denver. This was nice, because it allowed me to stop at the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge—a treasure—and, a bit farther on, to get those killer chili-cheese fries at the Owl Café.
Globe, Arizona, is an old mining town in a breathtaking landscape scarred by that brutal industry, which literally scours out the hearts of mountains, leaving behind toxic craters, lifeless terraced hills of slag, and poisonous ponds of chemical-laced tailings. A mine is a horrible thing to behold—a brazen monument to environmental ruin. An enormous one presses against 177, a side route out of the town of Winkelman, named for somebody.
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