Hobo The Rail Rider
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Hobo The Rail Rider
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Author : Richard Hudson
language : en
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Release Date : 2023-06-22
Hobo The Rail Rider written by Richard Hudson and has been published by Dorrance Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-22 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
About the Author The Author Bubba is from Evansville, Indiana. He joined the Navy at the age of eighteen and served in the United States Navy for 27 years and also worked for the Defense Department for 20 years. He is a family man and married Margaret Moore of Belfast, Ireland and was married for 55 years until she passed February 2018. They have two children Tom and Heather and one granddaughter Haven. Recently married Janice Bickford of Danville, Virginia. The Author is a church member. Loves to spend time with the family and play golf.
The Legend Of Bobear
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Author : Dutch VanDammer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-04-02
The Legend Of Bobear written by Dutch VanDammer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-02 with categories.
This unique children's book offers firsthand insight into the mystique and culture of the hobo community which dates back to the end of the Civil War. It was co-authored by the Dutchman, a Hobo King, and Gypsy Moon, a Hobo Queen. The story of BoBear is loosely based on the life and experiences of the Dutchman, a working hobo who has spent his life on the road.Young readers will be captivated by this compelling story as told by the Dutchman (Dutch VanDammer) and gain useful information from his lessons as an urban survivalist. Gypsy Moon (Jacqueline Schmidt) is a career writer, seasoned rail rider, oral historian and author of other books on this same topic.
One More Train To Ride
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Author : Cliff (Oats) Williams
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2009-09-18
One More Train To Ride written by Cliff (Oats) Williams and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-18 with History categories.
Drawn from intimate interviews with 14 modern-day "steel rail nomads," One More Train to Ride provides a revealing picture of today's American hobo. Interspersed with their stories are original poems and songs echoing the ancient lyricism and loneliness of life on the road. Their connections with the past make the experiences of these hoboes even more striking, as they ride freight trains and jungle up in hobo camps, light years away from the 21st-century cyberworld -- yet touching the very core of American freedom and individualism. Cliff Williams skillfully elicits details of family background, motives, and clear insights into the daily life and philosophy of the modern hobo. With its evocative link to the past, One More Train to Ride continues a long tradition of books on hobo oral history, including Nels Anderson's The Hobo (1923) and Thomas Minehan's Boy and Girl Tramps of America (1934).
Riding The Rails
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Author : Errol Lincoln Uys
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2003
Riding The Rails written by Errol Lincoln Uys and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Business & Economics categories.
During the Great Depression, more than 250,000 children left their homes and hopped on freight trains crisscrossing the country. They were looking for work and adventure; some wanted to leave their homes, and some had to. Riding the Rails gives us the stories of their travels in their own words and tells us what happened to them in the years since.
The Road
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Author : Jack London
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-11-25
The Road written by Jack London and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-25 with categories.
In this entertaining collection of tales and autobiographical essays, London relates the days he spent on the road. Each story details an aspect of the hobo's life - from catching a train to cadging a meal. The wealth of experiences and the necessity of having to lie for a living brought depth London's subsequent stories.
The Railroad In American Fiction
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Author : Grant Burns
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-01-28
The Railroad In American Fiction written by Grant Burns and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-28 with Transportation categories.
Nothing better represented the early spirit of American expansion than the railroad. Dominant in daily life as well as in the popular imagination, the railroad appealed strongly to creative writers. For many years, fiction of railroad life and travel was plentiful and varied. As the nineteenth century receded, the railroad's allure faded, as did railroad fiction. Today, it is hard to sense what the railroad once meant to Americans. The fiction of the railroad--often by railroaders themselves--recaptures that sense, and provides valuable insights on American cultural history. This extensively annotated bibliography lists and discusses in 956 entries novels and short stories from the 1840s to the present in which the railroad is important. Each entry includes plot and character description to help the reader make an informed decision on the source's merit. A detailed introduction discusses the history of railroad fiction and highlights common themes such as strikes, hoboes, and the roles of women and African-Americans. Such writers of "pure" railroad fiction as Harry Bedwell, Frank Packard, and Cy Warman are well represented, along with such literary artists as Mark Twain, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, and Ellen Glasgow. Work by minority writers, including Jean Toomer, Richard Wright, Frank Chin, and Toni Morrison, also receives close attention. An appendix organizes entries by decade of publication, and the work is indexed by subject and title.
Riding On Top
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Author : Gordon McLean
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 1999
Riding On Top written by Gordon McLean and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
During the thirty-two years that Gordon McLean taught high school none of his colleagues or students suspected that, beginning at age fifteen, he had survived seven seasons of hoboing. A bank manager's son, the young McLean was driven only by boredom and a lust for adventure. Hoboing was a colorful way of life that is gone forever and there are only a diminishing few survivors who can explode the myths and tell us what it was really like. McLean is one such survivor. His experiences varied from audacious, hilarious, heart-stopping, thoughtful, spiritual, and almost mystical. Now at age eighty the ex-hobo still dreams of riding freights and has vivid memory flashbacks. He has decided to share these memories with his "very numerous, very dear progeny". Non-relatives are welcome to kibitz. Readers, in addition to being highly entertained, amused, and moved, will learn little-known, startling details about life and attitudes in out of the way places during the Depression that will amaze even old-timers who lived through that era. The young hobo was a keen, sensitive observer and the octogenarian has been able to vividly recapture and communicate what the young "bo" experienced.
Rolling Nowhere
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Rolling Nowhere written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
Hopping a freight in the St. Louis rail yards, Ted Conover0́4winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award0́4embarks on his dream trip, traveling the rails with "the knights of the road." Equipped with rummage store clothing, a bedroll, and his notebooks, Conover immerses himself in the peculiar culture of the hobo, where handshakes and intoductions are foreign, but where everyone knows where the Sally (Salvation Army) and the Willy (Goodwill) are. Along the way he encounters unexpected charity (a former cop goes out of his way to offer Conover a dollar) and indignities (what do you do when there are no public bathrooms?) and learns how to survive on the road.But above all, Conover gets to know the men and women who, for one reason or another, live this life. There's Lonny, who accepts that there are some towns he can't enter before dark because he's black, and Pistol Pete, a cowboy who claims his son is a doctor and his daughter a ballerina, and Sheba Sheila Sheils, who's built herself a house out of old tires. By turns resourceful and desperate, generous and mistrusting, independent and communal, philosophical and profoundly cynical, the tramps Conover meets show him a segment of humanity outside society, neither wholly romantic nor wholly tragic, and very much like the rest of us.
The Six Year Old Hobo
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Author : David W. Goodwin
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2014-03
The Six Year Old Hobo written by David W. Goodwin and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03 with Fiction categories.
Zeke Wappinger, a precocious, bright and adventurous almost seven-year-old boy, gets fed up with his workaholic and technology-obsessed parents and decides to hop a freight train in the middle of the night from his small hometown in New Mexico. He is immediately befriended by two hobos and goes on a life-changing journey. More life-changing, however, is the effect it has on his parents, his two adult hobo companions and the various people who get sucked into the vortex of his adventure. The Six-Year-Old Hobo is a story of relationships, redemption and fate and will appeal to readers of all ages.
Mostly True
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Author : Bill Daniel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-09
Mostly True written by Bill Daniel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09 with Art categories.
Daniel has crafted a remarkable book, full of obscure railroad nostalgia - the result of a 25-year obsession with hobo and rail-worker folklore. Freight riding stories, interviews with hobos and boxcar artists, historical oddities and tons of photos of modern-day boxcar tags are all presented in the guise of a vintage rail fanzine.