I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.'

Living out of the back of his van he visited small towns such as Nameless Tennessee; Hachita New Mexico; and Bagley Minnesota to find places in America untouched by fast food chains and interstate highways. The Atlantic November 1987. PrairyErth is a deep map account of the history and people of Chase County Kansas.

travel writing. He is the author of a bestselling trilogy of topographical U. William Least Heat-Moon the byname of William Lewis Trogdon (born August 27 1939) is an American travel writer of English Irish and Osage ancestry.