For more than a dozen years afterward he traveled around the country, working on newspapers. In 1929 he went to New York City, where he was a feature writer for the United Press (1929 - 1935) and the World-Telegram (1936 - 1941). The success of "Low Man on a Totem Pole " led to other books generally in the same uninhibited anecdotal vein, including "Lost in the Horse Latitudes"(1944), "Rhubarb"(1946), and "To Hell in a Handbasket "(1962). He died in San Francisco, Calif, on Feb. 24, 1976.