Vagabond Adventures

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Biography & Autobiography, Humor, History

Authors: Ralph Keeler In Year : 1870

Book Language: English

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BOOK I. AMONG WHARVES AND CABINS. CHAPTER I. Prefatory
CHAPTER II. Family Matters
CHAPTER III. A Fugitive
CHAPTER IV. A Stormy Time
CHAPTER V. A Boy’s Paradise
CHAPTER VI. The Contumely of Captains
CHAPTER VII. Almost a Tragedy
CHAPTER VIII. Taken Prisoner
CHAPTER IX. Squalor
CHAPTER X. A Final Triumph
BOOK II. THREE YEARS AS A NEGRO-MINSTREL. CHAPTER I. My First Company
CHAPTER II. I become a Beneficiary
CHAPTER III. The Fate of the Serenaders
CHAPTER IV. The Trials and Triumphs of the “Booker Troupe”
CHAPTER V. The Last of the “Booker Troupe”
CHAPTER VI. “The Mitchells”
CHAPTER VII. On the Floating Palace
CHAPTER VIII. Wild Life
CHAPTER IX. The Performer Socially
CHAPTER X. Adieu to the Stage
BOOK III. THE TOUR OF EUROPE FOR $181 IN CURRENCY. CHAPTER I. Starting on a Cattle-Train
CHAPTER II. Taking to European Ways
CHAPTER III. Student Life and Wanderings
CHAPTER IV. A Fight with Famine
CHAPTER V. The Conclusion

Ralph Keeler failed as a novelist, but this autobiography reflects a life well-lived with humor and adventure. Keeler was in the same literary circle as satirist Bret Harte, novelist Charles Warren Stoddard, editor Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and essayist William Dean Howells. He so impressed Mark Twain that Twain wrote an essay about him called "Ralph Keeler". In 1873, on his way to Cuba, he reportedly was thrown overboard by a Spanish loyalist who objected to his backing of the revolutionary, anti-Spanish movement. - Summary by John Greenman