Hard Travellin': The Hobo and His HistoryNew American Library, 1967 - 448 pages "This is a vital piece of social history, charting individual and mass migrations across a continent, and drawing from the actual experience of hobos, as well as the official and unofficial records, to assemble a picture known to very few. It illuminates the profound dichotomy in the American attitude towards the loser - and particularly towards the mobile casual worker, needed and romanticised yet hated and feared because of his nonconformism." Dust jacket. Includes discussion of the Great Depression, the Dustbowl, and the Wobblies. |
Contents
STRANGERS AND SOJOURNERS | 19 |
Some people just got that roamin blood in them | 21 |
King of the road | 25 |
Copyright | |
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