Dictated in his seventy-fourth year after thirty years of silence, this memoir follows Train from a Boston shipping office to Australia during the gold rush, England, France and the railway boom at home. He tells of clipper ships, street railways, travel around the world, political campaigns and brushes with the law, all in a voice of boundless self-confidence.
An eccentric and entertaining life of one of nineteenth-century America’s great self-promoters. Download the free EPUB.