| Title | : | Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Jim Tully |
| Release | : | 2024-05-22 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Biographies & Memoirs, Books, Nonfiction, Social Science |
| Size | : | 417380 |
| After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police and reach Canada. A bestseller in 1924, in this vivid piece of outlaw history Jim Tully takes us across the seamy underbelly of pre-WWI America on freight trains, and inside hobo jungles and brothels while narrowly averting the cops. The author chose life on the road over a deadening job, through his teenage years of learning the ropes of the rails and living one meal to the next. |
