Nightmarish Train Ride Through Steel and Smoke
A fragmented reminiscence recounts a perilous 1900 mile journey to St Paul Auburn and Auburn to Auburn on the Northwestern Limited. The narrator recalls roaring freight cars, bent rails, and crews as wind from Puget Sound pierces gear. A close call with a derailed, improvised escape amid wreckage and fear underscores a perilous trek and a courage forged on the rails.
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Argol
Mickey Stesal
Pennsylvania
Aiburh
St Paul
Puget Sound
Mickey
Orlehounele
Ugius
Auburn
Banquet of the Hoboes on a January Spokane Journey
A fragmentary memoir describes a dozen hoboes riding freight cars into Spokane in cold, dark January weather. They scrounge food from houses, share a makeshift supper aboard a freight car, and endure a brutal night on the rails. Dawn finds them near a snow covered station where they conspire to move on, meeting two strangers named Crazy and Beauty as the group nears the next leg of their long trek.
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Panhandling
Spokane
Ug Spokane
Reddy Finke
Mickey
Mulligan
Greenle
Uge
Mont
Lour
Pele
No. 1
Washington
3Rizaly
Grizzly
Jim
Trout Creek
Montana
Northern Pacific
Bette
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Ohio
Grand Central
Newark
Harpers Farm
Cumberland
Tacoma Park
Man
Kleindienst
Station Dar Union Station
Hontsavivania Avenue
Miekel
Capital
Glonine
Central Union Mission
Central Union
Bill Taft
Panama
A! Cn
Sugacette
Mickel Min
Swampoodle
Mr. Klendienst
Pelee Station
Beating the Road to Taft Inauguration Tramp Tale
A rugged band of Seattle hoboes narrates their cross country trek to Washington in time for Taft's inauguration. They dodge danger, share grub, and survive cold, hunger, and police as they ride freight, endure stings of Montana and Ohio, and linger in Washington near Swampoodle before facing the uncertain welcome in the capital.
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Seattle
Washington
Taft
Old Man Greenhut’s tale of Bellyband Bush by the saloon
In a Mississippi river town saloon a seasoned player recounts Abe Bellyband Bush, a cousin of Jim Bush, famed for a hidden weighty surcingle and cunning poker. The talk swings to a fateful barroom poker night where Bellyband’s dealers outwitted rivals, prompting a tense confrontation ending with violence and gunplay.
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Jim Ilexiz
Jin Blaisdell
Cian
Arkansas
Salarnad
C Greenhut
Greenhut
Blazedell
Jim
Abe
Jim Bush
Bayous
Jim Uster
Shim
Noder
Bush
Lenin
Blatsdell
Jake Winterbottom
Blaisdell
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