Articles by Alexa Fritzsche

travel 06.30.08 A Field Guide to Southwesterners

Alexa Fritzsche ventures to Portal, Arizona to study lizards, but also discovers the wild diversity of Southwestern folk, whose habitat is the middle of nowhere.

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