Lone Prairie Magazine

Lone Prairie Magazine

North Dakota

Blue Like A River: Blue Highways and the Wisdom of Elders

Julie R. Neidlinger
Mar 28, 2026
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We travel highways, all our live-long days.

William Least Heat-Moon, who is part Native American, had lost his job and his wife and took to the road, where maybe such losses can lose their sting. The result was the book Blue Highways: A Journey Into America.1

Least Heat-Moon describes his reasoning eloquently: “On the old highway maps of America, the mai…

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