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Woman with a Cadillac hat stands in her backyard, with a freight train parked on tracks behind. She lived in an all-Black hollow in the back hills of West Virginia. She posed willingly for me, but after few minutes her husband called her back into the house. She quickly told me, "You'd better get moving. My husband says he's getting his gun right now." People don't take kindly to strangers, and no stranger has any reason to visit this small, isolated settlement, unless they are a federal agent or a drug dealer. Jon Chase photo