I failed to include some text, including a link for proper attribution, that I should have included in the description of William Least Heat-Moon. Sorry about that. Here's a revised description.
William Least Heat-Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Least_Heat-Moon “is an American travel writer and historian of English, Irish, and Osage ancestry”. He earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Missouri and worked as a professor of English. He wrote an autobiographical travel book, *Blue Highways*, that was well received. According to the article about the article about *Blue Highways* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Highways, "Stories that arose from Least Heat-Moon's research as well as historical facts are included about each area visited, as well as conversations with characters such as a Seventh-day Adventist evangelist hitchhiker, a teenage runaway, a boat builder, a monk, an Appalachian log cabin restorer, a rural Nevada prostitute, fishermen, a Hopi Native American medical student, owners of western saloons and remote country stores, a maple syrup farmer, and Chesapeake Bay island dwellers.”