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That said, when I picked up Sister of the Road - The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha in the bookstore, I knew I had to read it. Described as the autobiography of a hobo "free-thinking and free-loving" woman in the early twentieth century, it sounded radical and inspiring.
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May 1, 2002 · Sister of The Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha - as told to Dr. Ben Reitman (NABAT) Paperback – May 1, 2002 by Ben Reitman (Author), Barry Pateman (Afterword) 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
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Aug 18, 2014 · Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Box-Car Bertha - Kindle edition by Reitman, Ben L. Dr.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Box-Car Bertha.
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Sister of the Road is Bertha’s own story of those fifteen years and the record of her conclusions about them. Gifted with a naturally keen intelligence, fearless of consequences to herself, willing and eager to do and be everything which other members of her group did and were, her story is a mine of little-known information and a succession ...
Jan 1, 1975 · Sister of the road: The autobiography of Box-Car Bertha, as told to Dr. Ben L. Reitman (Harper colophon books) [Box-Car Bertha; Reitman, Ben Lewis] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.
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Aug 18, 2014 · Born in the shadows of a railroad yard, of a wandering mother who took her lovers where she found them and a father who was scarcely conscious of her arrival in the world, Bertha Thompson took to 'the road' as soon as the restless impulses of adolescence stirred in her. She was more interested in wanders than those who settled down in homes ...
Hobo jungles, bughouses, whorehouses, Chicago's Main Stem, IWW meeting halls, skid rows and open freight cars--these 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 ...
