DISPATCHES FROM THE ROAD

The Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument — Video Dispatch

Clay reflects on the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. He's been here many times and made this visit because Steinbeck did, on October 13, 1960.
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From the Eastern Heart of Montana — Video Dispatch

This morning I crossed the great Yellowstone River 27 miles west of Glendive on old Highway 10. There are not many places on the John Steinbeck Travels with Charley tour where you know you are PRECISELY where Steinbeck was, because so much has changed.
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Grasslands Renaissance on the Great Plains

A visit with author, falconer and pioneering regenerative rancher Dan O’Brien on his remarkable Cheyenne River Buffalo Ranch.
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Literary Time Travel — Step Into Carl Sandburg’s World in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains

A visit to the Blue Ridge Mountains home of America’s beloved poet, Carl Sandburg.
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My Romance With the Little Missouri River

I have a special claim on the Little Missouri — or rather it has had a special claim on me. If I had to spend eternity in a single landscape, it would be about 10 miles north of Marmarth, North Dakota, where the Little Missouri just begins to carve up the viewshed.
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Back Home and Planning Phase Two of the Great John Steinbeck Tour of America

Well, I’m home now for a few weeks, writing up my travels and planning Phase Two of the great John Steinbeck Travels with Charley tour of America, which begins in the second week of July. 
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Tortilla Flat: Steinbeck’s Early Years

Steinbeck struggles against poverty, but the publication of Tortilla Flat changes everything.
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Clay drops in at Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt’s Beloved Home on Long Island — Video Dispatch

Clay visits Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt’s home on Long Island.
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Two Views of the Nightmare Road to Athens, Ohio

Was it Google Maps that led me astray? Last week, on the way to Athens, Ohio, I took a wrong turn.
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A Distant View of the Falls of Niagara by American artist, John Vanderlyn, 1804.

Pondering Thomas Jefferson at Niagara Falls

Thomas Jefferson said it is worth a trip across the Atlantic to see Niagara Falls. Although he never got there.
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