With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.

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.