Where the Antelope Played

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Recent natural gas discoveries in the eastern U.S. have changed the country’s energy equation. But in the West a major gas rush has been underway for more than decade, and the conversion of landscape from rural to industrial continues there. Reporter Jason Albert tells this story of one corner of western Wyoming.

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