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Gunfighter Shadow, New Mexico, 1989
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"Image from the past, a gunfighter's shadow recalls the Wild West along the 900-mile [1,448-kilometer] Santa Fe Trail, which was used by settlers moving west."

—From "Along the Santa Fe Trail," March 1991, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Bruce Dale

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