William Least Heat-Moon
William Least Heat-Moon (born
William Lewis Trogdon, August 27, 1939) is an American
travel writer and
historian of
English,
Irish, and alleged
Osage ancestry. He is the author of several books which chronicle unusual journeys through the United States, including cross-country trips by boat (''River-Horse'', 1999) and, in his best known work (1982's ''
Blue Highways''), about his journey in a 1975 Ford Econoline van.
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