This comprehensive and generously illustrated collection is a lively and loving history celebrating the richness of America's traveling salesman tradition and the ways that the men and women of the road profoundly affected the American way of life through both word and deed.  Composed of hundreds of tales anecdotes, biographies, the author has complied an entertaining historial pageant that has been more than 300 years in the making.  Learn about the great and infamous, their pitches and scams, successes and failures, and the humor both by and about them.