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Boxcar Bertha: An Autobiography : As Told to Dr. Ben L. Reitman
Boxcar Bertha An Autobiography As Told to Dr Ben L Reitman Author:Box-Car Bertha, Ben L. Reitman Another raging slab of real American history you're not likely to find in the textbooks. It's a window into a wildly under-appreciated dropout culture that gets left out of the stultifying fairytales that pass for history booksa much more rowdy and messily interesting tradition than the guardians of propriety, steeped in those other great ... more »American traditions of puritanism and hypocrisy, let on. Hobo jungles, bughouses, whorehouses, Chicago's Main Stem, IWW meeting halls, skid rows and open freight carsthese were the haunts of the free thinking and free loving Bertha Thompson. This vivid autobiography recounts one hell of a rugged woman's hard-living depression-era saga of misadventures with pimps, hopheads, murderers, yeggs, wobblies and anarchists.« less