A bestseller in 1924, this vivid piece of outlaw history has inexplicably faded from the public consciousness. Jim Tully takes us across the seamy underbelly of pre-WWI America on freight trains, and inside hobo jungles and brothels while narrowly averting railroad bulls (cops)...
As a young man, Jim Tully set off on the road and on the railroad tracks, meeting all sorts of marginalized figures. He also cut his teeth as an author with this book, which was adapted into a movie and is credited with establishing the hard-boiled fiction style that later defined...
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