From Job to Job Around the World

In 1907, Alfred Charles Benson Fletcher graduated from the University of California, where he was a leading figure on the campus. He decided to take a graduate course in the school of hard knocks and see the world on his nerve and native hardihood and made “a three-year trip … around the world, starting from San Francisco with only a five-dollar gold piece and earning [his] way.” “[His] wanderings…