Author : N Anderson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004670181
The American Hobo
N Anderson
The American Hobo
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Citizen Hobo
Todd DePastino
Author : Todd DePastino
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226143804
Citizen Hobo by Todd DePastino Pdf
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
Dale Maharidge
Author : Dale Maharidge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Marginality, Social
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111452749
The Last Great American Hobo by Dale Maharidge Pdf
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.
The American Hobo
Nels Anderson
Author : Nels Anderson
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Skid row
ISBN : 9004041915
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Tales of an American Hobo
Charles Elmer Fox
Author : Charles Elmer Fox
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1587290693
Tales of an American Hobo by Charles Elmer Fox Pdf
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.
Hobo
Eddy Joe Cotton
Author : Eddy Joe Cotton
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1400048095
Hobo by Eddy Joe Cotton Pdf
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.
Done and Been
Gypsy Moon
Author : Gypsy Moon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015002629013
Done and Been by Gypsy Moon Pdf
Includes a short history of hobos, oral histories of American hobos, recipes, and a glossary.
Indispensable Outcasts
Frank Tobias Higbie
Author : Frank Tobias Higbie
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252070984
Indispensable Outcasts by Frank Tobias Higbie Pdf
Often overlooked in the history of Progressive Era labor, the hoboes who rode the rails in search of seasonal work have nevertheless secured a place in the American imagination. The stories of the men who hunted work between city and countryside, men alternately portrayed as either romantic adventurers or degenerate outsiders, have not been easy to find. Nor have these stories found a comfortable home in either rural or labor histories. Indispensable Outcasts weaves together history, anthropology, gender studies, and literary analysis to reposition these workers at the center of Progressive Era debates over class, race, manly responsibility, community, and citizenship. Combining incisive cultural criticism with the empiricism of a more traditional labor history, Frank Tobias Higbie illustrates how these so-called marginal figures were in fact integral to the communities they briefly inhabited and to the cultural conflicts over class, masculinity, and sexuality they embodied. He draws from life histories, the investigations of social reformers, and the organizing materials of the Industrial Workers of the World and presents a complex and compelling portrait of hobo life, from its often violent and dangerous working conditions to its ethic of "transient mutuality" that enabled survival and resistance on the road. More than a study of hobo life, this interdisciplinary book is also a meditation on the possibilities for writing history from the bottom up, as well as a frank discussion of the ways historians' fascination with personal narrative has colored their construction and presentation of history.
Mulligan Stew
Barbara Hacha
Author : Barbara Hacha
Publisher : Mediamix Productions
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Tramps
ISBN : 098319873X
Mulligan Stew by Barbara Hacha Pdf
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
Life for the American Hobo
Jo Ann Gurule
Author : Jo Ann Gurule
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1615466061
Life for the American Hobo by Jo Ann Gurule Pdf
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.
Tales of an American Hobo
Charles Elmer Fox
Author : Charles Elmer Fox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1987-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0913211575
Tales of an American Hobo by Charles Elmer Fox Pdf
You Can't Win
Jack Black
Author : Jack Black
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781627932752
You Can't Win by Jack Black Pdf
An amazing autobiography of a criminal from a forgotten time in american history. Jack Black was a burgler, safe-cracker, highwayman and petty thief.
An American Hobo in Europe
Windy Bill
Author : Windy Bill
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0469207531
An American Hobo in Europe by Windy Bill Pdf
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One More Train to Ride
Cliff (Oats) Williams
Author : Cliff (Oats) Williams
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0253112443
One More Train to Ride by Cliff (Oats) Williams Pdf
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).
An American Hobo In Europe: A True Narrative Of The Adventures Of A Poor American At Home And In The Old Country
Windy Bill (Ben Goodkind)
Author : Windy Bill (Ben Goodkind)
Publisher : Lector House
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9389679672
An American Hobo In Europe: A True Narrative Of The Adventures Of A Poor American At Home And In The Old Country by Windy Bill (Ben Goodkind) Pdf
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