Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820

FEATURED AUTHOR - John Egenes is the author of “Man & Horse: The Long Ride Across America”. John has done pretty much whatever it takes to scrape by. He has been a musician, a saddlemaker, a dog catcher, a taxicab driver, and a university lecturer, among other things. John has ridden the freight trains he describes in the book, and he has seen the Marfa Lights. He now makes his home in New Zealand.  As our Author of the Day, he tells us all about his book The Marfa Blues.