Bundle · $47
The Rail Rider's Handbook — all six books
You'll spend far less on food, heat, and repairs.
All six books in one set. The heat. The food. The kit. The repairs. Plus the two books sold only here: the signs of the road, and the riders in their own words.
- The four skill books, each with its printable
- The Code of the Road — only in the set
- Voices from the Road — only in the set
- Cheap Heat & Fire, Heat Sheets included$27
- The Depression Kitchen, Kitchen Cards included$27
- The Bindle — the whole kit$32
- Mend & Clean$32
- The Code of the Road, Chart included — set only$29
- Voices from the Road — set only$29
That's $176 of books — all six for $47. Less than any two books alone.
- 6 books, large easy-reading type
- The Heat Sheets, Kitchen Cards, and Chalk Code Chart included
- PDF — read anywhere, print any page
30 days. If it wasn't worth it, write and get it back.
About
Harlan the Hobo
Harlan Brown is a 68-year-old American storyteller. Hoboing runs in his family. His grandfather Elmer rode the rails from 1931 to 1938 and left three notebooks. Harlan took to the road himself as a young man and spent the better part of fifty years out there. At the National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa, he sat with the last men alive who had ridden in the 1930s.
Fifty years on the road doesn't leave a man much of a pension. That is the plain reason for the channel, and for this book.
Harlan is a digital character: the face and voice on the channel are made with AI. The history is real. Every date, price, and practice in the book is checked against the genuine record — the Library of Congress, the WPA interviews, and the standard histories.
Read it. If it wasn't worth it, write me.
Take 30 days. If the book wasn't worth your $47, reply to your receipt email. You get your money back. No forms. No fuss.