The red couch is used as a prop in each portrait of American children, artists, musicians, actresses, disabled veterans, illegal aliens, politicians, farmers, scientists, and business people
William Least Heat-Moon Book order (chronological)
August 27, 1939
William Least Heat-Moon is an American travel writer of English, Irish, and Osage Nation ancestry. He is renowned for his bestselling trilogy of topographical U.S. travelogues. His works delve into the American terrain and culture, capturing the essence of places and their people. His writing is characterized by keen observation and a unique perspective on the American landscape.
Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map--if they get on at all--only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill in: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity, Virginia; Whynot, Mississippi." His adventures, his discoveries, and his recollections of the extraordinary people he encountered along the way amout to a revelation of the true American experience.