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Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian.

William Least Heat-Moon

Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.

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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.

William Least Heat-Moon

At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.

William Least Heat-Moon

William Least Heat-Moon

William Least Heat-Moon

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Born: August 27, 1939 (age 86)

Bio: William Least Heat-Moon, also named William Lewis Trogdon, is an American travel writer and historian of English, Irish, and Osage ancestry. He is the author of various bestselling books of topographical U.S. travel writing.

Known for:

Blue Highways (1982)
PrairyErth (1991)
Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey (2008)

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