William Least Heat-Moon, byname of William Trogdon (born 1940) is an American travel writer of English, Irish and Osage Nation ancestry. 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... Travel literature is literature which records the people, events, sights and feelings of an author who is touring a foreign place for the sake and pleasure of travel. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2005 est. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Biography

Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he attended the University of Missouri-Columbia where he joined Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity and received a bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D degrees in English as well as a bachelor's degree in photojournalism. He also served as a professor of English at the University. Nickname: City of Fountains or Heart of America Location in Jackson, Clay, Platte, and Cass Counties in the state of Missouri. ... The University of Missouri-Columbia (abbreviated UMC and nicknamed Mizzou) is an institution of higher learning located in Columbia, Missouri and is the main campus in the University of Missouri system. ... Tau Kappa Epsilon (TKE, pronounced T-K-E or Teke, as in teak wood) is a college fraternity with chapters in the USA, Germany, and Canada, and was founded on January 10, 1899 at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois. ... Sports photojournalists at Indianapolis Motor Speedway Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism (the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast) that creates images in order to tell a news story. ...

He is a contemporary Missouri travel writer, and author of a bestselling trilogy of topographical U.S. travel writing. This article does not cite its references or sources. ... A bestseller is a book that is identified as extremely popular by its inclusion on a list of top-sellers. ... A trilogy is a set of three works of art, usually literature or film, that are connected and can generally be seen as a single work as well as three individual ones. ...

Blue Highways, a cult classic, is a chronicle of a three-month-long road trip that Heat-Moon took throughout the United States in 1978, after losing his teaching job and being left by his wife. He travelled 13,000 miles, as much as possible on secondary roads (often drawn on maps in blue) and tried to avoid cities, living out of the back of his van "Ghost Dancing" and visiting small towns such as Nameless, Tennessee, Hachita, New Mexico, and Bagley, Minnesota in an attempt to find places in America that were untouched by fast food chains and interstate highways. The book chronicles the people he talked to in roadside cafés as well as his personal soul-searching. A cult classic is a cultural artifact (e. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... MAPS could refer to: Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Mail Abuse Prevention System Multi-jurisdictional Automated Preclearance System This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A van is a vehicle used for transporting goods or groups of people. ... The Ghost Dance by the Ogalala Lakota at Pine Ridge Noted in historical accounts as the Ghost Dance of 1890, the Ghost Dance was a religious ritual incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems beginning in 1889. ... Bagley is a city located in Clearwater County, Minnesota. ... Fast food is food prepared and served quickly at a fast-food restaurant or shop at low cost. ... A typical rural stretch of Interstate highway, with two lanes in each direction separated by a large grassy median, and with cross-traffic limited to overpasses and underpasses. ... Coffeehouse in Damascus This article is about an establishment where coffee is sold and consumed. ...

PrairyErth is a deep map account of Chase County, Kansas, and River Horse is an account of a four-month coast-to-coast boat trip across the U.S., using only the nation's waterways. Deep map refers to an emerging practical method of intensive topographical exploration, popularised by author William Least Heat-Moon with his book PrairyErth: A Deep Map. ... Chase County (standard abbreviation: CS) is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. ... A boat is a craft or vessel designed to float on, and provide transport over, water. ...

Besides the trilogy, he also wrote Columbus in the Americas, a brief historical book about Christopher Columbus. As an academic field, history is the study of past human activities and is generally considered a social science. ... Christopher Columbus (1451?-1506) was a navigator and maritime explorer credited as the discoverer of the Americas. ...

Bibliography

• Blue Highways: A Journey Into America. Fawcett, 1982. ISBN 0-449-21109-6
• The Red Couch: A Portrait of America. With Kevin Clarke and Horst Wackerbarth. Olympic Marketing Corp, 1984. ISBN 0912383054
• PrairyErth (A Deep Map): An Epic History of the Tallgrass Prairie Country. Houghton Mifflin, 1991. ISBN 0-395-48602-5
• River Horse: The Logbook of a Boat Across America. Houghton Mifflin, 1999. ISBN 0-395-63626-4
• Columbus in the Americas (Turning Points in History). Wiley, 2002. ISBN 0-471-21189-3

External Links

• 1983, 1984, 1991 Real Audio interviews with William Least Heat-Moon by Don Swaim

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