The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

by Bill Bryson

The population density of Wyoming is 1.9 people per square kilometer; in South Dakota it is a little over 2 people per square kilometer. In Britain, there are 236.2 people per square kilometer.

All those stories you’ve ever read about tornadoes driving pieces of straw through telegraph poles or picking up cows and depositing them unharmed in a field four miles away are entirely true. In southwest Iowa there is a cow that has actually had this happen to it twice.

I’ve seen Ernie Banks naked. Not a lot of people can say that, even in Chicago.