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American Nomads: Travels with Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and Bullriders Books
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.304927
EAN: 9780802141804
ISBN: 0802141803
Label: Grove Press
Manufacturer: Grove Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: January 07, 2005
Publisher: Grove Press
Sales Rank: 96960
Studio: Grove Press
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Product Description:
Fascinated by the land of endless horizons, sunshine, and the open road, Richard Grant spent fifteen years wandering throughout the United States, never spending more than three weeks in one place and getting to know America's nomads, truckers, tramps, rodeo cowboys, tie-dyed concert followers, flea market traders, retirees who live year round in their RVs, and the murderous Freight Train Riders of America (FTRA). In a richly comic travelogue, Grant uses these lives and his own to examine the myths and realities of the wandering life and its contradiction with the sedentary American dream. Along with a personal account, American Nomads traces the history of wandering in the New World, through vividly told stories of frontiersmen, fur trappers and cowboys, Comanche and Apache warriors, all the way back to the first Spanish explorers who crossed the continent. What unites these disparate characters, as they range back and forth across the centuries, is a stubborn conviction that the only true freedom is to roam across the land.
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Great modern insight into early explorers and the nomad habits and life of the early indians,also the fallout from the hippy era.those who never left it and became nomads of the road
Great read from a Pom [prisoner of mother england ] whos'ancestors have been wandering the world for generations.
Peter
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I absolutely adored this book. It's like a halfway-boutique history that doesn't claim to be one, and as such it can get away with the halfway part. Grant explores the dirty, the grimy, and the repulsive, as well as the beutiful and the mundane. You'll fall in love with this book because Grant's love of the road is palpable, and what he does best in this work is communicate the sense of possibility that is inherent in the road.
One thing that I found disappointing as a historian ... Read More
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A great first book. American Nomads is a true outsider's depiction of the idiosyncratic modern ways of America contrasted with its nomadic history.
And coming from an unknown British writer, it is refreshing not to have a high-falutin', supercilious attitude coming at you in the writing.
What you get here are historical stories about nomads such as Cabeza de Vaca, Coronado, the Apaches, the Comanches, Joseph Walker (mountain man) and Everett Ruess alternating with contemporary ... Read More
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This was a fascinating, wonderful book. I learned so much about the people who live on the road, folks most of us don't know exist. Grants explores all kinds of different groups, from hippies to cowboys to rail riders to tramps. He even throws in the RV senior citizen crowd (though they don't seem to fit in, even though they fit the definition; I guess he felt he couldn't overlook them, but I would have rather he did). His history of past American nomads was fascinating. There are just so many elements ... Read More
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The subtitle really gives you an idea about the subjects covered in this book. The author talks about all kinds of nomadic people from colonial explorers to Dead Heads, old Indian tribes to their modern descendants, Cowboys, serial hitchhikers, pioneers, and RVers. The book is basically a series of unrelated stories, tied together by the fact that they all deal with nomads.
Some sections start to drag a little bit. Even if some parts of it are a little immature, as one reviewer pointed ... Read More
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