The Footloose AmericanBy: Brian Kevin An adventure filled and thought provoking travelogue along Hunter S. Thompson's forgotten route through South America In 1963, twenty five year old Hunter S. Thompson completed a yearlong journey across South America, filing a series of dispatches for an upstart paper called the National Observer. It was here, on the front lines of the Cold War, that this then unknown reporter began making a name for himself. The Hunter S. Thompson who