Vagabond Adventures

by Ralph Keeler

25 chapters5h 20mEnglish1870

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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

Chapters (25)

1BOOK I. AMONG WHARVES AND CABINS. CHAPTER I. Prefatory

229

2CHAPTER II. Family Matters

730

3CHAPTER III. A Fugitive

800

4CHAPTER IV. A Stormy Time

968

5CHAPTER V. A Boy’s Paradise

464

6CHAPTER VI. The Contumely of Captains

609

7CHAPTER VII. Almost a Tragedy

656

8CHAPTER VIII. Taken Prisoner

663

9CHAPTER IX. Squalor

698

10CHAPTER X. A Final Triumph

686

11BOOK II. THREE YEARS AS A NEGRO-MINSTREL. CHAPTER I. My First Company

537

12CHAPTER II. I become a Beneficiary

614

13CHAPTER III. The Fate of the Serenaders

939

14CHAPTER IV. The Trials and Triumphs of the “Booker Troupe”

1153

15CHAPTER V. The Last of the “Booker Troupe”

808

16CHAPTER VI. “The Mitchells”

1325

17CHAPTER VII. On the Floating Palace

1057

18CHAPTER VIII. Wild Life

1318

19CHAPTER IX. The Performer Socially

673

20CHAPTER X. Adieu to the Stage

521

21BOOK III. THE TOUR OF EUROPE FOR $181 IN CURRENCY. CHAPTER I. Starting on a Cattle-Train

523

22CHAPTER II. Taking to European Ways

871

23CHAPTER III. Student Life and Wanderings

917

24CHAPTER IV. A Fight with Famine

828

25CHAPTER V. The Conclusion

646

Vagabond Adventures

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