A Spur Award-Winning Author
It was 1932, the depths of the Great Depression, and thousands of people rode the rails in search of jobs, homes, and hope. For some, the tracks were a road to nowhere, a dead end in a boxcar or under the wheels. Their fate seemed certain - until Ish Watson grabbed the rungs of a passing freight train. Here in life's trenches would he meet up with the wayward and the runaways, the dope addicts and the prostitutes, the winos and criminals. The locomotive's smoke drifted down to cover them all like a shroud, but it was more than death they faced - for this train would not stop until it carried them all to their destinies. And their only hope was Ish's perseverance.