One hundred and eighty years after Lewis and Clark\'s Voyage of Discovery (1804-1806), Dayton Duncan set out in a Volkswagen camper to retrace their steps.
His books include Miles from Nowhere: Tales from America\'s Contemporary Frontier, also available in a Bison Books edition..
Born and raised in a small town in Iowa, he now makes his home in Walpole, New Hampshire.
Dayton Duncan has been a reporter, humor columnist, editorial writer, chief of staff to a governor, and deputy press secretary for presidential campaigns.
Louis to the Oregon coast, readers will be treated to a landscape as variously impressive as its people.
From the Gateway Arch in St.
Readers traveling with Duncan will encounter the people who inhabit today\'s West: farmers and ranchers, cowboys and mountain men, Native Americans, residents of dying small towns, city dwellers who have survived cycles of boom and bust.
Out West is an account of three separate journeys: Lewis and Clark\'s epic adventure Through uncharted wilderness
Duncan\'s retracing of the historic trail, now in various ways tamed, paved, and settled; and the Journey of the American West in the years in between.
One hundred and eighty years after Lewis and Clark\'s Voyage of Discovery (1804-1806), Dayton Duncan set out in a Volkswagen camper to retrace their steps
