Jim Tully is one of America’s could-have-beens. Mostly forgotten today, he was very well-respected during his lifetime.
Jim is considered one of the founder’s of the American hardboiled style of writing.
Here’s the first 40 pages or so of Beggars of Life:
There’s also a pretty good recent post about Jim here.
Other online free ebooks about tramp life:
Tramping with Tramps by Josiah Flynt (1899)
The People of the Abyss by Jack London (1903)
The Road by Jack London (1907)
I did an earlier post on The Autiobiography of a SuperTramp by W.H. Davies.