num_pages: 320
description: In a richly textured travelogue, a British journalist recounts his fifteen-year odyssey throughout the United States, examining the myths and realities of the wandering life as he recalls his encounters with America's nomads and traces the history of wanderers--cowboys, explorers, frontiersmen, trappers, and Native American warriors--in the New World.
language: English
title: American Nomads: Travels With Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and Bullriders
titlecomplete: American Nomads: Travels With Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and Bullriders
genres: Travelogue, American, United States, The United States Of America, Westerns, Memoir, Nonfiction, Travel, History, Road Trip
ratings_count: 824
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Thomas Cook Travel Book Award
publisher: Grove Press