PHOTO OF THE DAY January 4, 2006  

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Where Missouri Breaks, Montana
When 1996
Photographer William Albert Allard

Dark clouds loom over grainfields near the Missouri Breaks. In the big, empty Breaks, "It's nothing to drive 250 miles (402 kilometers) to a game or a dance," says a local resident. "That's how you find things out here."

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Missouri Breaks," May 1999, National Geographic magazine)


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