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...What starts as a trickle of snowmelt in the central highlands of the state, ends as a broad and murky knuckle pushing into the Columbia River about 100 miles east of Portland....
...It is a chaotic, careless place of inconstancy and disappointment that squeezes its workers dry and then deserts them....
...California has always been a dry state. For almost six months of the year many of its citizens get little rain....
...Denver, in the state of Colorado, sits in the shadows of the Rocky Mountains....
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