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Just Aim for the Big Middle”: Polly Quick and Coyote Number 17

Published January 28, 2005

Ray Quick drills holes in the aquifer and his wife Polly punches holes in coyotes.

Polly Quick making jerky the afternoon Bernie Harberts met her and Ray in La Luz, New Mexico, 2004
Polly Quick making jerky the afternoon I met her and Ray.
Ray Quick making jerky under canine scrutiny in La Luz, New Mexico, 2004
Ray making jerky across the kitchen table from her under close canine scrutiny.

Ray’s a well digger, one of the last in the area to use a cable rig, an old Bucyrus Erie 22W. While Woody and Maggie were resting in his corrals, he takes me on the job.

The back of Ray and Polly Quick's stone house where Bernie Harberts camped with Woody and Maggie in La Luz, New Mexico, 2004
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