Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow : My American Hitchhiking Odyssey

by BROOKES, TIM

• ISBN13: 9780792277293
• ISBN10: 0792277295
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2001-07-10
• Publisher: National Geographic

Summary

A noted cultural critic and NPR essayist offers a lively and provocative account of his hitchhiking odyssey across the United States, documenting his experiences along the way and reexamining America's onetime love affair with the road trip. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Table of Contents

A Barometer of Goodwill	1	(9)
Anywho	10	(6)
Clothing Technologies	16	(4)
The Road to Jericho	20	(4)
Searching for That Wonderful Tribe	24	(5)
Been a Long Time Since I Did the Stroll	29	(19)
The Vagabond, When Rich	48	(9)
``Public'' Being a Dirty Word	57	(13)
In the Silverware Drawer	70	(8)
Dysgeography	78	(6)
Missile Silos Would Make Great Condos	84	(12)
A Frontier Planet	96	(8)
``A Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow''	104	(9)
Red Wind at the Mirage	113	(10)
Another Casualty of the Sixties	123	(20)
Between Me and the Basted Egg	143	(4)
Laundry on the Freeway	147	(5)
Don't Start Singing Before the Money Gets Through	152	(9)
Fundamentally Nomadic	161	(13)
An Overlapping Assortment of Fantasies	174	(5)
Trodden by Rogues	179	(6)
The Last Don	185	(9)
Idiot A, Idiot B, and the Journey Back East	194	(7)
Hate Kickin' This Thing out of Cruise Control	201	(12)
Jeff Bridges Has a Ranch Up Here	213	(15)
Where My Dead Lie Buried	228	(8)
The Hitchhiker Remains at Large	236	(6)
The Lord Said It Was All Right	242	(7)
Falling by the Wayside	249	(5)
Between Order and Chaos	254	(8)
Bitumen in Their Veins	262	(4)
You Aren't Going to Blow Us Up, Are You?	266	(19)
Dowsing for Kindness	285	(11)
We Should Do All Right	296	(5)
Appendix A: A Short History of Hitchhiking	301	(5)
Appendix B: Product Testing Notes	306