Highwaymen and Poets of the Road
What follows is a brief treatise on hitchhiking and the perceived and real dangers of bumming rides from a historical perspective and using several mythological angles; highlighted are highwaymen and women and poets new and old. Divvied up into six sub-essays of varying lengths, included are discussions on Robert S. McNamara and the Viet Nam War, hitchhiking through Utah in 1974, Mount Carmel and Mt. Carmel Junction, Auschwitz and Good Samaritans, The Five-Man Electrical Band, two separate cold cases of hitchhikers murdered the same day of my first hitch in August 1974, and a collection of approximately fifty poems and rhymes written by hitchhikers of various artistic abilities and temperaments waiting at on ramps around the country.
