Two Illinois natives helped preserve an old general store in Hackberry, Arizona. We spent a rainy day there — and tried not to wake the mayor as he slept on a the couch.

Once a key route between L.A. and Phoenix, Cadiz Road now cuts through silence, sand, and history. From abandoned towns and ...

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