Guthrie, Woody

Guthrie hit the road when he was just 17. He soon found himself in Pampa, Texas, where he learned to play the guitar, began the first of two families, and made a living as a sign-painter. After the great dust storm of 1935, he criss-crossed the country by rail and became a popular figure in the boxcars (enclosed goods wagons), playing familiar folk songs to tramps he met along the way. His 1943 autobiography, entitled Bound for Glory, opens and closes...