The Rail Rider's Handbook — all six books

47 lessons and true first-person stories, across six large-print books. The heat, the food, the kit, the repairs — and the two books that only come with the set: the signs and rules of the road, and the riders' own voices from the record.

• 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

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About

Harlan the Hobo

My name's Harlan Brown. I'm 68. Hoboing runs in my family — my grandfather Elmer rode the rails from 1931 to 1938 and left three notebooks behind. I took to the road myself as a young man and spent the better part of fifty years out there. At the National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa, I got to sit with the last men alive who'd actually ridden in the 1930s.

Fifty years on the road doesn't leave a man much of a pension. That's the plain truth of why I started the channel, and why I put these books together.

I should tell you plainly: I'm a digital character. The face and voice you see on the channel are made with AI. But the history isn't — every date, every price, every practice in these books is checked against the real record: the Library of Congress, the WPA interviews, the standard histories. I didn't invent any of it. I just wrote it down.

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