Home Country (book)

Home Country is a collection of articles written by the columnist Ernie Pyle for Scripps-Howard newspapers between 1935 and 1940.

Based on some other articles that he wrote during a lengthy road trip, he was assigned to be a roving reporter.

He drove through the United States in his car and wrote columns about the people he met and the places he visited.

He eventually wrote columns from places as distant as the northern reaches of Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico, and South America.

Pyle described life in conditions as disparate as the tropics of South America and the 1930s Great Plains Dust Bowl.