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Tales Of An American Hobo
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Author : Charles Elmer Fox
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 1989
Tales Of An American Hobo written by Charles Elmer Fox and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Reefer Charlie Fox rode the rails from 1928 to 1939; from 1939 to 1965 he hitched rides in automobiles and traveled by foot. From Indiana to British Columbia, from Arkansas to Texas, from Utah to Mexico, he was part of the grand hobo tradition that has all but passed away from American life. He camped in hobo jungles, slept under bridges and in sand houses at railroad yards, ate rattlesnake meat, fresh California grapes, and fish speared by the Indians of the Northwest. He quickly learned both the beauty and the dangers of his chosen way of life. One lesson learned early on was that there are distinct differences among hoboes, tramps, and bums. As the all-time king of hoboes, Jeff Davis, used to say, Hoboes will work, tramps won't, and bums can't. "Tales of an American Hobo" is a lasting legacy to conventional society, teaching about a bygone era of American history and a rare breed of humanity who chose to live by the rails and on the road.
Tales Of An American Hobo
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Author : Charles Elmer Fox
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987-10-01
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Hobo
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Author : Eddy Joe Cotton
language : en
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Release Date : 2003-05
Hobo written by Eddy Joe Cotton and has been published by Three Rivers Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
On a cold, gray day in 1991, a kid named Eddy Joe Cotton left home with nothing but a warm jacket, some well-worn boots, and a few crumpled dollar bills. His father had just fired him, not for the first time, but for the last. He didn’t see his father again for two years. But this is not the story of a runaway—it is a tale of an unorthodox road to adulthood. By taking to the trains, Eddy Joe Cotton learned the difficulty of life lived on the margins, the fading importance of a once-celebrated American folk hero, and the ultimate meaning of freedom.
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).
Mulligan Stew
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Author : Barbara Hacha
language : en
Publisher: Mediamix Productions
Release Date : 2013-11
Mulligan Stew written by Barbara Hacha and has been published by Mediamix Productions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11 with Tramps categories.
Ever since track was first laid for the great locomotives, hobos have listened to the call of the rails, lured by the possibility of free transportation to another place-if they could make their way unnoticed and unharmed. They rode the rails for various reasons-to escape economic hardship, satisfy an urge for adventure, or simply to feed their wanderlust. Along the way, they developed their own culture. Mulligan Stew contains a variety of ingredients from the hobo culture: hobo life as it was lived at the turn of the twentieth century, women hobos, hobo heroes, hobo signs and symbols, contemporary hobos telling of their experiences, and hobo traditions from the National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa-an event that has opened a door into the hobo world every August for more than 100 years. The convention motto is "There's a Little Bit of Hobo in All of Us." Readers who are hobos at heart are invited to open this book and savor the stew. Praise for Mulligan Stew: No book I know has captured the varieties of hobo experience as well as Barbara Hacha's Mulligan Stew, and in a form that perfectly fits the phenomenon... -Luther the Jet, Hobo King 1995-96
Citizen Hobo
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Author : Todd DePastino
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-03-15
Citizen Hobo written by Todd DePastino and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-15 with History categories.
In the years following the Civil War, a veritable army of homeless men swept across America's "wageworkers' frontier" and forged a beguiling and bedeviling counterculture known as "hobohemia." Celebrating unfettered masculinity and jealously guarding the American road as the preserve of white manhood, hoboes took command of downtown districts and swaggered onto center stage of the new urban culture. Less obviously, perhaps, they also staked their own claims on the American polity, claims that would in fact transform the very entitlements of American citizenship. In this eye-opening work of American history, Todd DePastino tells the epic story of hobohemia's rise and fall, and crafts a stunning new interpretation of the "American century" in the process. Drawing on sources ranging from diaries, letters, and police reports to movies and memoirs, Citizen Hobo breathes life into the largely forgotten world of the road, but it also, crucially, shows how the hobo army so haunted the American body politic that it prompted the creation of an entirely new social order and political economy. DePastino shows how hoboes—with their reputation as dangers to civilization, sexual savages, and professional idlers—became a cultural and political force, influencing the creation of welfare state measures, the promotion of mass consumption, and the suburbanization of America. Citizen Hobo's sweeping retelling of American nationhood in light of enduring struggles over "home" does more than chart the change from "homelessness" to "houselessness." In its breadth and scope, the book offers nothing less than an essential new context for thinking about Americans' struggles against inequality and alienation.
The Last Great American Hobo
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Author : Dale Maharidge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
The Last Great American Hobo written by Dale Maharidge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Marginality, Social categories.
Examines the life of Blackie, a hobo for sixty years, as he chooses to defend his life on the banks of the Sacramento and fight America's changing attitude toward the homeless.
Hobo Camp Fire Tales
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Author : Leon Ray Livingston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1911
Hobo Camp Fire Tales written by Leon Ray Livingston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1911 with Tramps categories.
Life For The American Hobo
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Author : Jo Ann Gurule
language : en
Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated
Release Date : 2009
Life For The American Hobo written by Jo Ann Gurule and has been published by Publishamerica Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The hobo has long been romanticized and depicted as carefree in our countryas imagination through pictures, figurines, movies and TV shows. His myth makes a better story than his reality. Hobos were misjudged and mistreated. Their reality was brutal, sad and lonely. Their survival depended upon courage and wits. As a reader, you will be introduced to their reality during the Great Depression years. There are quotes from the hobos themselves telling the reasons for leaving home, the train cars they rode, life in their jungles (camps), advice given from the seasoned hobos to the novice hobos, treatment from the bulls (railroad detectives), begging for food, finding work, their health, injuries and death, and their entertainment and traditions.
Harry Partch Hobo Composer
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Author : S. Andrew Granade
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2014
Harry Partch Hobo Composer written by S. Andrew Granade and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
During the Great Depression, Harry Partch rode the railways, following the fruit harvest across the country. From his experience among hoboes he found what he called ""a fountainhead of pure musical Americana."" Although he later wrote immense stage works for instruments of his own creation, he is still regularly called a hobo composer for the compositions that grew out of this period of his life. Yet few have questioned the label''s impact on his musical output, compositional life, and reception. Focusing on Partch the person alongside the cultural icon he represented, this study examines Par.