Lives & Memoirs
Vagabond Adventures
Ralph Keeler
1870
5h 21m
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Ralph Keeler's lively memoir of a footloose youth, from cabin-boy to minstrel performer to wandering journalist. He recounts a rambling life full of scrapes and adventure. A charming picaresque memoir of nineteenth-century America.
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25 chapters
- 1BOOK I. AMONG WHARVES AND CABINS. CHAPTER I. Prefatory4m
- 2CHAPTER II. Family Matters12m
- 3CHAPTER III. A Fugitive13m
- 4CHAPTER IV. A Stormy Time16m
- 5CHAPTER V. A Boy’s Paradise8m
- 6CHAPTER VI. The Contumely of Captains10m
- 7CHAPTER VII. Almost a Tragedy11m
- 8CHAPTER VIII. Taken Prisoner11m
- 9CHAPTER IX. Squalor12m
- 10CHAPTER X. A Final Triumph11m
- 11BOOK II. THREE YEARS AS A NEGRO-MINSTREL. CHAPTER I. My First Company9m
- 12CHAPTER II. I become a Beneficiary10m
- 13CHAPTER III. The Fate of the Serenaders16m
- 14CHAPTER IV. The Trials and Triumphs of the “Booker Troupe”19m
- 15CHAPTER V. The Last of the “Booker Troupe”13m
- 16CHAPTER VI. “The Mitchells”22m
- 17CHAPTER VII. On the Floating Palace18m
- 18CHAPTER VIII. Wild Life22m
- 19CHAPTER IX. The Performer Socially11m
- 20CHAPTER X. Adieu to the Stage9m
- 21BOOK III. THE TOUR OF EUROPE FOR $181 IN CURRENCY. CHAPTER I. Starting on a Cattle-Train9m
- 22CHAPTER II. Taking to European Ways15m
- 23CHAPTER III. Student Life and Wanderings15m
- 24CHAPTER IV. A Fight with Famine14m
- 25CHAPTER V. The Conclusion11m
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