'Boxcar' After meeting rabble-rousing union man 'Big' Bill Shelly while traveling through Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30s, Bertha Thompson forms a partnership with him to battle the corrupt railroad establishment. Written by anarchist physician Dr. Ben L. Reitman in 1937, "Sister of the Road" is a pseudo-autobiography of fictional character Bertha Thompson that is based on her life.
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'Boxcar' After meeting rabble-rousing union man 'Big' Bill Shelly while traveling through Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30s, Bertha Thompson forms a partnership with him to battle the corrupt railroad establishment. Written by anarchist physician Dr. Ben L. Reitman in 1937, "Sister of the Road" is a pseudo-autobiography of fictional character Bertha Thompson that is based on her life.
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