A review by wordwrestler
American Nomads: Travels with Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and Bullriders by Richard Grant

2.0

I found the subject matter fascinating and the writer's attitudes frustrating. It's been pointed out to me that Grant has mainly written for Esquire, and so expecting any kind of approach that took women into account as full human beings was, perhaps, overly optimistic of me. The INS "thank you" is a joke that falls flat about how it took the fear of deportation to make him finally get married. There's no real examination of what would make a person choose to be a nomad, and there's an explicit exclusion of women as independent wanderers, except for one token inclusion in the final chapter. Grant knew what he wanted his story to be, so he put on some blinders and went out looking for it. Meh.