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5 unusual facts about Blue Highways


Blue Highways

Blue Highways is an autobiographical book by William Least Heat-Moon, born William Trogdon.

He outfits a green van with a bunk, a camping stove, a portable toilet and a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and John Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks.

He had coined the term to refer to small, forgotten, out-of-the-way roads connecting rural America (which were drawn in blue on the old style Rand McNally road atlas).

Four-Calendar Café

The album takes its title from William Least Heat-Moon's book Blue Highways, in which the author considers the quality of a restaurant by how many calendars it has hanging on its wall.

Rocheport, Missouri

William Least Heat-Moon, writer, best known for Blue Highways', a chronicle of his journeys to small towns across America


Smith Island, Maryland

One visitor, the author William Least Heat-Moon, described his conversations with islanders in his best-selling book Blue Highways.


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