Book excerpt: In Search of America is the journey of a young man in his twenties searching for the American soul and for meaning in his life. Set in the turbulent 1960s, Robert Wolf jumped freight trains and hitchhiked across country, searching for people who expressed something deeply American. He found them in a Mexican-American village, on a New Mexico ranch, in Santa Fe's artist colony and elsewhere.His stories of the people he met and lived with are interspersed with reflections on America here and now.