Monument Valley, Utah/Arizona, USA - 1 June 2008 With its iconic sandstone buttes and mesas, Monument Valley presents us with an archetypal vision of

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Monument Valley, Utah/Arizona, USA - 1 June 2008 With its iconic sandstone buttes and mesas, Monument Valley presents us with an archetypal vision of the mythic Wild West. The valley lies within the range of the Navajo Nation Reservation, and has featured in innumerable movies since the 1930s. Here we see the North Window, with a dead, blasted tree in the foreground.

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