From North Carolina to Southern California Without a Ticket and How I Did It

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The travel book includes these chapters: Off for California-My Troubles Begin in Wilmington-Taken for a Deserter-A Drummer Comes to My Rescue; Run Out of Town by the Chadbourn Police-Cash Running Low-Getting Schedules Mixed-The First Blush of Shame; Snatched from Death-Forty-nine Miles on a Hand-car-Finding a Partner; “Look Out for Hoodlums!”-Retribution for Deception-Stranded in New Orleans-Meet With Kind Hearts; A Hungry Ride of 308 Miles-“Hello, Hello in the Pipe There!”-To Work Again-Nabbed by a Cop; Across the Line Into New Mexico-Barren Sand Hills-Jack Rabbits-Prairie Dogs-A Glorious Sunset, etc.; Get a Job in a Law Office-Dirty, Ragged Clothes Put Off-Smallpox Starts Me Off Again; “For God’s Sake, Give Me a Drop of Water”; and Thrown Into Jail at Los Angeles.

Traveling without any penny from Tarboro, North Carolina, to Tucson, Arizona; and onward to the troubled city of San Francisco, California, and other interesting places in the West, such as New Orleans, Dallas, Texas, Fort Worth, El Paso, Dalhart, Texas, Alamogordo, New Mexico, Juarez, Old Mexico, Bisbee, Arizona, Los Angeles, California, San Pedro, California, Searchlight, Nevada, Denver, Colorado, and over a hundred other interesting places, returning home on a telegraphed ticket, passing through Chicago, Cincinnati, and Richmond, Virginia.

The writer, John Peele, of Tarboro, N. C., is only 19, and although he had crossed around the world widely past to the introduction of this narrative, he had therefore often kept a ticket to his journey. Let us all travel along with him unwearyingly and he will try to illustrate to you the secret of going West without having a ticket. Relying the story might be of importance to mothers in restricting their errant sons to remain at their house.
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