Tramp Adrift - A Hobo's True Story
Jones, Larry W Bart Kennedy (1861-1930), from the age of 6 until about the age of 20, worked in cotton mills and machine shops in Manchester, England. At age 20, pennyless, he left England, working as a deckhand on a cargo ship to Philadelphia. Illiterate and with no money or formal training, he used the force of his youth to "tramp" his way westward across North America. At low-paying jobs, he worked as an oysterman, a prisoner in New Orleans, a miner, a ra...