Abstract
Jared Kindred left his home and family at eighteen, choosing to wander America on freight trains and live on the street. Addicted to alcohol most of his short life, he never found a way to survive. Through this ordeal, Dave Kindred's love for his grandson never wavered. Kindred reconstructs the life Jared chose for himself--a life that rejected the comforts of civilization in favor of a chance to roam free.