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was writing a memoir titled "Kindness in America." His father, Melvin Dolin, in Julian, W. Va., declined to speak about his son's plans, saying he had been working on his photography.
• "I'd rather you eventually get that story from him. He had some ideas about that," he said.
• After graduating from college in recent years, Ray Dolin started OneShot Impressions to pursue freelance photography, his father said. The business' website features a logo of the cross hairs of a rifle scope, and has a statement from Dolin citing photography and travel as "two of my greatest passions in life."
• Dolin left West Virginia last week bound for Washington state, Melvin Dolin said. He took a bus to the edge of Montana and intended to work his way to Washington

from there, the father said.
• "He was on the way across the country taking pictures," Melvin Dolin said, adding that his son's travel plans had been flexible. "He was going to make up his mind as he travelled along. But he didn't get that far."
• Glasgow is about 120 miles west of the Montana-North Dakota border. Still dominated by agriculture, the town of about 3,000 residents is increasingly feeling the effects of the oil boom to the east.

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