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Author | : Charles Elmer Fox |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781587290695 |
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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.
Author | : Charles Elmer Fox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1987-10-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780913211571 |
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Author | : Dale Maharidge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Marginality, Social |
ISBN | : |
Download The Last Great American Hobo Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Ben Goodkind |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : San Francisco (Calif.) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Maury Graham |
Publisher | : Paragon House Publishers |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Download Tales of the Iron Road Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Barbara Hacha |
Publisher | : Mediamix Productions |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2013-11 |
Genre | : Tramps |
ISBN | : 9780983198734 |
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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
Author | : Cliff (Oats) Williams |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2009-09-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253112446 |
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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).
Author | : Dale Maharidge |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2013-05-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0520274512 |
Download Someplace Like America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Updated edition with a new preface and afterword"--Cover.
Author | : Todd DePastino |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2010-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226143805 |
Download Citizen Hobo Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Iain McIntyre |
Publisher | : PM Press |
Total Pages | : 725 |
Release | : 2018-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1629635324 |
Download On the Fly! Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first anthology of its kind, On the Fly! brings forth the lost voices of Hobohemia. Dozens of stories, poems, songs, stories, and articles produced by hoboes are brought together to create an insider history of the subculture’s rise and fall. Adrenaline-charged tales of train hopping, scams, and political agitation are combined with humorous and satirical songs, razor sharp reportage and unique insights into the lives of the women and men who crisscrossed America in search of survival and adventure. From iconic figures such as labor martyr Joe Hill and socialist novelist Jack London through to pioneering blues and country musicians, and little-known correspondents for the likes of the Hobo News, the authors and songwriters contained in On the Fly! run the full gamut of Hobohemia’s wide cultural and geographical embrace. With little of the original memoirs, literature, and verse remaining in print, this collection, aided by a glossary of hobo vernacular and numerous illustrations and photos, provides a comprehensive and entertaining guide to the life and times of a uniquely American icon. Read on to enter a world where hoboes, tramps, radicals, and bums gather in jungles, flop houses, and boxcars; where gandy dancers, bindlestiffs, and timber beasts roam the rails once more.