Slab City, California: Inside the Last Free Place in America

You are 200 miles from L.A. and 150 miles from San Diego. A new book chronicles a camp that's home to snowbirds and squatters, bedsprings and barbed wire, desire and desperation.

Charlie Hailey

Donovan Wylie

Published Oct. 25 2018 5:01AM EDT 

Charlie Hailey

ndisabat@mit.edu

Donovan Wylie

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