Paul Palmer walks the cars of the Milwaukee-to-Chicago train with Harper’s and Scribner’s under his arm, earning the money that keeps his widowed mother and younger sister. A leap from the train, a rejected suitor, swindlers and a struggling artist test his honesty and his nerve as he works his way upward.
Classic Alger rags-to-respectability, with the railroad bustle of the 1880s Midwest. Download the free EPUB.