Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9781774640890

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by Jim Tully (Author)

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.

Number of Pages: 176

Dimensions: 0.41 x 9 x 6 IN

Publication Date: February 13, 2021

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