The Landloper

An American novel from 1915. One June morning, a young man who calls himself Walker Farr walks the roads of New England. He looks like a tramp, but he speaks like an educated man and hides his past. He stops in Marion, a cotton-mill town where typhoid fever strikes poor families. The cause is the river water sold by the company of Colonel Dodd, who also controls the state’s politicians. Asking nothing for himself, Farr joins the fight and meets Kate Kilgour, Dodd’s secretary. A lively novel about the courage of one man standing alone against a political machine.