National Geographic Traveller (UK)

2017

TEXAS

BGTW AWARDS

Aaron Millar picked up Travel Writer of the Year. His Texas feature, America’s Last Frontier, was one of two National Geographic Traveller entries

The far west of Texas is America’s last frontier. As I stand on (cowboys) and a crumbling, waterless town. But here there’s nothing. These are the borderlands, an in between place where wranglers and artists, misfits and ranchers, shelter in the vastness of the desert. Life here, on the periphery, is wilderness and silence, the boundless spirit of independence that built this country, and the eyes of another looking in.

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