Twenty Years of Hus'ling

Twenty Years of Hus'ling by J. P. Johnston is a rags to riches success story that portrays the peculiar incidents, comic situations, failures and successes of a man who tries almost every kind of business and finally wins. Written in the humorous style of Mark Twain, Johnston tells his story as a mountebank and charlatan who traveled the Midwest in the last quarter of the 1800s, selling furniture polish, cheap jewelry, patent rights to doubtful inventions, trading horses, and auctioneering.