The Mother Of The Hoboes

Author : A-No. 1 The Famous Tramp
Publisher : Garrett County Press
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781891053559

Get Book

The Mother of the Hoboes by A-No. 1 The Famous Tramp Pdf

Self-published in 1918, The Mother of the Hoboes is an extremely rare book about the life of train vagabonds culled from the personal experiences of A-No. 1, "the famous tramp." This is a dazzling and wild window into an underground culture that has largely vanished -- although some of the adventures may feel familiar to contemporary train hoppers, squatters and zinesters. Includes many illustrations. Warning to Those Who Read this Book: the Author, who Has Led for Over a Quarter of a Century the Pitiful and Dangerous Life of a Tramp, gives this Well-Meant Advice: DO NOT Jump on Moving Trains or Street Cars, even if only to ride to the next street crossing, because this might arouse the “Wanderlust,” besides endangering needlessly your life and limbs. Wandering, once it becomes a habit, is almost incurable, so NEVER RUN AWAY, but STAY AT HOME, as a roving lad usually ends in becoming a confirmed tramp.

Author : Charles Forsman,Max de Radigues
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781683961765

Get Book

Hobo Mom by Charles Forsman,Max de Radigues Pdf

A cross-Atlantic collaboration, Hobo Mom was drawn simultaneously. Both cartoonists’ clean line styles fit together perfectly to tell the story of Tom, who lives a simple life with his pre-teen daughter, Sissy. Her mother, Natasha, who left to hop trains and has become a vagrant, shows up on the doorstep of the family she abandoned years ago. There, Natasha finds an upset husband (who is still deeply in love with her), and a little girl yearning for a mother. Can someone who covets independence settle down?

Author : Josh Mack
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781440526190

Get Book

The Hobo Handbook by Josh Mack Pdf

No one said life on the road would be easy. Navigating the rails, mapping bus lines, and hitching rides. Dealing with hunger when you don't have a nickel to chew on. Picking up an odd job here and making a few bucks there. But that's why it's exciting. It's one hell of an adventure. It's a thrilling road to follow if you're up to the challenge. And this book's your back-pocket saving grace. As you flip to the next flop, you'll need to know how to get by in order to stay one step ahead. Realize: a hobo isn't some bum looking for a handout. You need to be ready to put in the effort. If you want to make your way in the Jungle and along your route, you need the know-how provided within. This is the textbook to your open-road education.

Author : José Inez Taylor,James M. Taggart
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292773592

Get Book

Alex and the Hobo by José Inez Taylor,James M. Taggart Pdf

When a ten-year-old boy befriends a mysterious hobo in his southern Colorado hometown in the early 1940s, he learns about evil in his community and takes his first steps toward manhood by attempting to protect his new friend from corrupt officials. Though a fictional story, Alex and the Hobo is written out of the life experiences of its author, José Inez (Joe) Taylor, and it realistically portrays a boy's coming-of-age as a Spanish-speaking man who must carve out an honorable place for himself in a class-stratified and Anglo-dominated society. In this innovative ethnography, anthropologist James Taggart collaborates with Joe Taylor to explore how Alex and the Hobo sprang from Taylor's life experiences and how it presents an insider's view of Mexicano culture and its constructions of manhood. They frame the story (included in its entirety) with chapters that discuss how it encapsulates notions that Taylor learned from the Chicano movement, the farmworkers' union, his community, his father, his mother, and his religion. Taggart gives the ethnography a solid theoretical underpinning by discussing how the story and Taylor's account of how he created it represent an act of resistance to the class system that Taylor perceives as destroying his native culture.

Author : Hobo Ronin
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781524667955

Get Book

Odes of a Hobo by Hobo Ronin Pdf

I've always suffered from dyslexia but although I have mentioned this fact to my family and close friends; my quick wit, confidence and my generally eloquent manner of conversation has always hidden just how seriously the condition has affected parts of my life. This struggle has given me a unique perspective on the world and helped me to look at situations and people not just through words, which I've always struggled to do, but through the actions of Belief, perception and circumstance of an individual With these works I have tried to use words in a simplistic fashion to engage people of all abilities and hopefully to notice, see and establish the truth of which I write. I am of a philosophical view with a pragmatic, optimistic outlook in regards to the world's problems and strife's. I think my ultimate goal is to draw attention to society's understanding of perception. Enjoy my writing and endeavour to make sense of what I'm trying to express.

Author : Piers Beirne
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Chicago school of criminology
ISBN : 0415383552

Get Book

The Chicago School of Criminology 1914-1945: The hobo by Piers Beirne Pdf

This volume is a collection of all-new original essays covering everything from feminist to postcolonial readings of the play as well as source queries and analyses of historical performances of the play. The Merchant of Venice is a collection of seventeen new essays that explore the concepts of anti-Semitism, the work of Christopher Marlowe, the politics of commerce and making the play palatable to a modern audience. The characters, Portia and Shylock, are examined in fascinating detail. With in-depth analyses of the text, the play in performance and individual characters, this book promises to be the essential resource on the play for all Shakespeare enthusiasts.

Author : Henry Denkhaus
Publisher : Inspiring Voices
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462407354

Get Book

Anna and the Magical Horse - Henry the Hobo - the Pond by Henry Denkhaus Pdf

This book contains three stories and is meant to grow with the child. The first, Anna and the Magical Horse, is about a toy horse that, when taken to bed with a little girl, goes with her to all the places she dreams. At first he thinks it is only with the one girl, but later finds that its with anyone, even you. Henry the Hobo is about a toy doll that is made fun of because of his clothes and how shabby he looks. He learns through a little girl that looks and clothes do not make the man, or in this case the doll. He learns that love is for everyone and should be forever. The final story is The Pond, a short story about animals that live in and around a pond in a park. It tells humorous stories of their living there and how they got there with some humor and some close calls in life.

Author : Nels Anderson
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547724278

Get Book

The Hobo: The Sociology of the Homeless Man by Nels Anderson Pdf

"The Hobo: The Sociology of the Homeless Man" by Nels Anderson. Published by DigiCat. DigiCat publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each DigiCat edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Charles Elmer Fox
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1587290693

Get Book

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.

Author : Todd DePastino
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226143804

Get Book

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.

Author : David W. Goodwin
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781493176854

Get Book

The Six-Year-Old Hobo by David W. Goodwin Pdf

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.

Author : N Anderson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004670181

Get Book

The American Hobo by N Anderson Pdf

Author : S. Andrew Granade
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580464956

Get Book

Harry Partch, Hobo Composer by S. Andrew Granade Pdf

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.

Author : Jack Overbey
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781641389679

Get Book

Hobo Cowboy by Jack Overbey Pdf

As Chief Sitting Bull stepped up on the porch, he turned to face the crowd. "My friends," he began by sweeping his right arm around, encompassing all in attendance, "I am called Sitting Bull, war chief of the Lakota Sioux, but it was not always so. My mother and father named me at birth Jumping Badger. My name was changed to Sitting Bull after my coming-of-age vision. My ancestors and I grew up in the sacred Black Hills of Dakota, where we lived happily for many thousands of years. And then the white eyes came. We lived by our own tribal law and the law of the great spirit which is true, and just then the Great White Father in Washington said he wanted all of our land for themselves, and the yellow iron found on it, then sending Yellow Hair Custer to our land to find the yellow iron, breaking our treaties, which we had signed many times but was broken each time by the white man, not us. They told us, upon threat of war and death, to give up our sacred land and go live on the white man's reservation. They said we must send our children to white man's school, learn the white man's ways, forget the ways of our fathers and grandfathers, plow the Mother Earth, they wanted our weapons turned over to the blue coats, these things we could not do. As any man worth his small ration of salt would do, even as the white eyes have done in their civil war, we fought for our freedom."

Author : G. Marvin Stephens
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781450217606

Get Book

Hobo Trip to Loma Linda and Back to the Planet Earth by G. Marvin Stephens Pdf

Marcellus Box is restless, and he does not know how to find what he is missing most in his life. He was raised-up in the deep woods of the Big Thicket, which is northeast of Houston, Texas. In August of 1926, he receives a mysterious postcard from his cousin, Estella, begging him to come to Loma Linda, California, immediately. Now, Estella has always held a special place in Marcelluss heart. They have always watched out for each other, and when she and her family left Texas for California, he was desolate! He asks for time off from work and then begins his quest across the country as a hobo to join Estella, his Dulcinea. Marcelluss trip to California is also a quest to find the deeper meaning in his life, his destiny. What drives Marcellus to look deeper into his understanding of life and search for true happiness? We follow him as he travels the rails through Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and then into California. He meets fascinating people along the way who stretch his mind. He learns new concepts about the earths origin; and he experiences a new energy inside himself; which lift s him up to a higher existence.