Spanish-American war veteran. Hobo riding the rails in his "thousand-mile shirt." Union telegrapher. Linotype repairman. Railroad manager. Machine gun expert. Grifter running scams. Smuggler. Colonel in the Guatemalan Army. Presidential bodyguard. Opera singer agent. Fugitive. Deputy U.S. Marshal. Accused mutineer at sea. A man known in Central America as El Diablo.
It sounds like this couldn't be one man...but it is. These are the true-life adventures of hobo and soldier of fortune Frank Kavanaugh—in his own words.
Experience what life was like at the turn of the 20th Century, where you wore law and order in your shoulder holster and lived by your wits.