The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.

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.