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Pickup trucks, hung with shotguns and rifles, are part of the life here, where the roads are unpaved and deer are a source of food.

The 50-year-old high-desert farmer, Dallen Spendlove, welds hot metal in a burst of sparks, onto the blunted ends of his plow to extend their lives. He's been trying to make the land on Smith Mesa more productive for the last 17 years.

The spirit and resilience of the old Mormon tlers resides in the face of Robert D. Lee, the oldest resident of Virgin. Blinded, he believed, by a welding torch, he feels his way through the grape orchard he planted in the harsh Utah earth more than…

Cody Stout waits at 7,00 a.m. for the school bus to carry him from Virgin (pop 300) to his school in the larger town of Hurricane, Utah.

The following morning, the photographer returned to the apartment. Wade asked for a portrait of him with Shirley as they normally are, to give to Armond in the detention center. Looking on distressfully is Wade's son, with his arm around Wade's still…

Minutes later, seemingly dazed, his tears drying, Junior sits in a clo out of harm's way as Wade answers the door.

Wade chases Junior back into eh kitchen, and after a moment of trying to comfort his fears, begins choking junior when the child refuses the apology. The pay/violence only stops when the photographer intervenes more forcefully.

Wade, laughing, twists the neighbor child's fingers, and 'the game' becomes openly brutal.

A neighbor's child enters the kitchen, thinking a fun game is in progress. Wade breaks into the bathroom where his grandson, Junior, is hiding, and the neighbor child follows for what eh thinks is a game of hide and seek.

Neighbor's, the dead child's family, and the photographer had questions of whether the murder had been the result of an attempt to scare Eric or was premeditated. Neighbors said that Armond, the accused murderer, lived in a confusion of real violence…