Home Country (book)

Home Country is a collection of articles written for Scripps-Howard Newspapers between 1935 - 1940 by columnist Ernie Pyle. It was compiled and published in 1947 by William Sloan Associates, Inc.

Pyle, tired of his desk job, badgered the syndicate for a road job, and was given a job as a roving reporter, driving around in his car and writing columns about the people he met, and the places he visited. The column became a huge success, eventually being featured in over 200 newspapers. He eventually wrote columns from places as far 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 to the horrors of the 1930s Great Plains Dust Bowl.