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Crossing borders

GLASGOW author Ian Mitchell, researching his latest book, Encounters in the American Mountain West – A Sinner Amongst the Latter-Day Saints, found himself one day in Pinedale, Wyoming.

Looking for a place to stay, he drove around and eventually, down a set of dusty backstreets with clapboard houses and wrecked cars, found a motel. It was midday, and no-one was around.

He rang the bell and a rather slatternly woman appeared, saying: "Youwanna room? Sixty dollars a night, in advance. Idennification?"

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