Reply #27: I'd grab me some of that transcendentalism.

[carpetbagger]

Emerson's essays could sustain me. If those are taken, I'd go with Theodore Parker.

If those are taken, I'd go with TR Fehrenbach's "Lone Star". Someone will have to provide the background as to how it all came about. Anyway, I'd get to spend my days musing over great lines like:

"Nature was always hard, and frequently at war with itself. Over the whole land the sun burned, not the distant, friendly orb that filtered light through European forests, but a violent, brassy engine that browned the earth and made the hillsides shimmer with heat."