Stevenson's followers in America have been numerous. Katharine
Osbourne, Clayton Hamilton, J. C. Furnas, Roy Nickerson, Michel Le
Bris, Nicholas Rankin, Gavin Bell, Hunter Davies, and John Cairney,
have successively embarked on an a round of attempts to visit the
American locations in which Stevenson spent any time,1 rediscovering
the landscapes he described and establishing vicarious contact with the
people he encountered. Just as Stevenson came to America knowing that
he would make a book out of the trip so his followers come, pen and
notebook in hand, bent on finding interesting copy. They express
nostalgia for the America that Stevenson knew, seek out and document
significant contrasts between the America Stevenson discovered and the
United States of today. They worm out any possible overlooked
influences exerted during the periods Stevenson spent in America and
discernable in his later work
