American pigs! (A digression from the subject at hand)

Frances Trollope, mother of the novelist Anthony Trollope, wrote an eye-opening account of her experience in America called Domestic Manners of the Americans.  She was, to put it mildly, unimpressed by her American adventures. I recommend this book, which is  available for free as an ebook; it ranks up there with Mark Twain's Roughing It as a glimpse into the wildness of the American past.   If you are doing a cross-country road trip, you should include both of the above mentioned in your backpack, along with On the Road by Jack Kerouac, A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird, Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon, Travels with Charlie by John Steinbeck, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America  by Bill Bryson and...??  Your recommendations?

There is a tantalizing excerpt of Frances Trollope's account of Cincinnati (and its pigs) at Three Voices. Nota Bene-- there is audio on this site, which you can choose to listen to or not, and you need to scroll through to get to the pigs.  This site is dedicated to enhancing the image of Cincinnati-- for the real dirt, you need to read Frances.