Larned, Kansas

Larned was the one place on Carl Sandburg's journey where he refused to refer to himself as a hobo. His father had owned and paid taxes on a quarter section of land in that town.

He wrote in his autobiography:

When I walked past the courthouse I felt like an important, respectable citizen, even though I was sleeping in empty boxcars that stood on the Santa Fe tracks.

Sandburg's work in Larned included assisting a local carpenter for three days at seventy five cents a day and a wheat threshing crew for five days.

 

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  Larned was the one place on Carl Sandburg's journey where he refused to refer to himself as a hobo. His father had owned and paid taxes on a quarter section of land in that town.

  He wrote in his autobiography:

  When I walked past the courthouse I felt like an important, respectable citizen, even though I was sleeping in empty boxcars that stood on the Santa Fe tracks.

  Sandburg's work in Larned included assisting a local carpenter for three days at seventy five cents a day and a wheat threshing crew for five days.