Epic Peters, Pullman Porter

Pullman Porter

Octavius Roy Cohen

• Publisher: Clemson University Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9780983533948
• eBook ISBN: 9781638041245

"Cohen's work is the next-best-thing to having an oral history of a Pullman porter during the hey-day of intercity train travel, at a time when the Pullman Company was one of the largest employers of African-Americans. Epic Peters wonderfully encapsulates virtually everything that was once the life of a Pullman porter." —Alan Grubb and H. Roger Grant

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Octavus Roy Cohen
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• The Berth of Hope
• Ride ’Em and Weep
• Traveling Suspenses
• The Epic Cure
• The Porter Missing Men
• The Trained Flee
• A Toot for a Toot
• Bearly Possible