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The Ways of the Hobo

A-No. 1
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Author : A-No. 1
Publisher : Garrett County Press
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781891053931

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Composed at the turn of the century by A No. 1, the famous tramp, The Ways of the Hobo presents a United States where losing oneself in the landscape of America was truly possible. This is a world where identities are re-imagined in seconds and travel is as thrilling as it is dangerous. Follow A No. 1 as he travels amid the foothills of the Alleghenies, Lake Erie, Kansas City, San Diego, Oceanside and all points in between. The Ways of the Hobo is part of a large series authored and self-published by A No. 1. The series is a primer on subculture, counterculture, and anti-authoritarianism -- a must for any train fanatic or anyone intrigued by the lives of hoboes and tramps.

How to Be a Hobo

Brooke Willett
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Author : Brooke Willett
Publisher : Free Press Publications
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1938357183

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How to Be a Hobo by Brooke Willett Pdf

When her plush and comfy life suddenly and unexpectedly fell apart, Brooke and her dog Cloud set out to defy the odds. She put on a knapsack and started walking. If this is a man's world as they say, living on the streets is no place for a young woman. She was able to navigate her way through challenges and obstacles, getting odd jobs along the way, and hopping freight trains as a main mode of transport, until one day she awoke in the Red Wood forest, looked around the make shift camp built upon mounds of dirty kid trash and hidden back into the trees, and realized she had become... a hobo... and would ultimately come to know exactly what it means to survive.

The Hobo Handbook

Josh Mack
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Author : Josh Mack
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781440526190

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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.

Queen of the Road

Doreen Orion
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Author : Doreen Orion
Publisher : Crown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780767930215

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A pampered Long Island princess hits the road in a converted bus with her wilderness-loving husband, travels the country for one year, and brings it all hilariously to life in this offbeat and romantic memoir. Doreen and Tim are married psychiatrists with a twist: She’s a self-proclaimed Long Island princess, grouchy couch potato, and shoe addict. He's an affable, though driven, outdoorsman. When Tim suggests “chucking it all” to travel cross-country in a converted bus, Doreen asks, “Why can’t you be like a normal husband in a midlife crisis and have an affair or buy a Corvette?” But she soon shocks them both, agreeing to set forth with their sixty-pound dog, two querulous cats—and no agenda—in a 340-square-foot bus. Queen of the Road is Doreen’s offbeat and romantic tale about refusing to settle, about choosing the unconventional road with all the misadventures it brings (fire, flood, armed robbery, and finding themselves in a nudist RV park, to name just a few). The marvelous places they visit and delightful people they encounter have a life-changing effect on all the travelers, as Doreen grows to appreciate the simple life, Tim mellows, and even the pets pull together. Best of all, readers get to go along for the ride through forty-seven states in this often hilarious and always entertaining memoir, in which a boisterous marriage of polar opposites becomes stronger than ever.

Done and Been

Gypsy Moon
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Author : Gypsy Moon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015002629013

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Includes a short history of hobos, oral histories of American hobos, recipes, and a glossary.

Indispensable Outcasts

Frank Tobias Higbie
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Author : Frank Tobias Higbie
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252070984

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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.

Hobo Camp Fire Tales

A-No. 1
Hobo Camp Fire Tales Book PDF

Author : A-No. 1
Publisher : Garrett County Press
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781891053795

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Hobo Camp Fire Tales by A-No. 1 Pdf

This is the second book in the famous hobo series by A No.1. The writing is thrilling, presenting true, hilarious stories of train hopping and tramping. 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.

Alex and the Hobo

José Inez Taylor,James M. Taggart
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Author : José Inez Taylor,James M. Taggart
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0292781806

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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.

The Trail of the Tramp

Leon Ray Livingston A-No
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Author : Leon Ray Livingston A-No
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1537676873

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The Trail of the Tramp by Leon Ray Livingston A-No Pdf

THE TRAIL OF THE TRAMP BY A-No. 1 (AKA Leon Ray Livingston) THE FAMOUS TRAMP, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF FROM ACTUAL EXPERIENCES OF HIS OWN LIFE. Illustrated by JOSEPH EARL SHROCK. The Trail of the Tramp is an autobiographical book that tells the experiences of "The Rambler" Leon Ray Livingston. The story centers on a person named "Canada Joe."

Hobo Mom

Charles Forsman,Max de Radigues
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Author : Charles Forsman,Max de Radigues
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781683961765

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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?

Citizen Hobo

Todd DePastino
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Author : Todd DePastino
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226143804

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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.

Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos

Owen Clayton
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Author : Owen Clayton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009348072

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Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos by Owen Clayton Pdf

The most enduring version of the hobo that has come down from the so-called 'Golden Age of Tramping' (1890s to 1940s) is an American cultural icon, signifying freedom from restraint and rebellion to the established order while reinforcing conservative messages about American exceptionalism, individualism, race, and gender. Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos shows that this 'pioneer hobo' image is a misrepresentation by looking at works created by transient artists and thinkers, including travel literature, fiction, memoir, early feminist writing, poetry, sociology, political journalism, satire, and music. This book explores the diversity of meanings that accrue around 'the hobo' and 'the tramp'. It is the first analysis to frame transiency within a nineteenth-century literary tradition of the vagabond, a figure who attempts to travel without money. This book provide new ways for scholars to think about the activity and representation of US transiency.

The Sunset Route

Carrot Quinn
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Author : Carrot Quinn
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780593133286

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The Sunset Route by Carrot Quinn Pdf

The unforgettable story of one woman who leaves behind her hardscrabble childhood in Alaska to travel the country via freight train—a beautiful memoir about forgiveness, self-discovery, and the redemptive power of nature, perfect for fans of Wild or Educated. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER • “An urgent read. A courageous life. Quinn’s story burns through us and bleeds beauty on every page.”—Noé Álvarez, author of Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land After a childhood marked by neglect, poverty, and periods of homelessness, with a mother who believed herself to be the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary, Carrot Quinn moved out on her own. She found a sense of belonging among straight-edge anarchists who taught her how to traverse the country by freight trains, sleep in fields under the stars, and feed herself by foraging in dumpsters. Her new life was one of thrilling adventure and freedom, but still she was haunted by the ghosts of her lonely and traumatic childhood. The Sunset Route is a powerful and brazenly honest adventure memoir set in the unseen corners of the United States—in the Alaskan cold, on trains rattling through forests and deserts, as well as in low-income apartments and crowded punk houses—following a remarkable protagonist who has witnessed more tragedy than she thought she could ever endure and who must learn to heal her own heart. Ultimately, it is a meditation on the natural world as a spiritual anchor, and on the ways that forgiveness can set us free.

Hard Travellin'

Kenneth Allsop
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Author : Kenneth Allsop
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781448206018

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Hard Travellin' by Kenneth Allsop Pdf

It was the railway system which moulded the American hobo into the legendary figure he became, especially in the depression years, but surviving until today. His origins, however, go back to the early pioneer days. He is in fact a unique and indigenous American product, 'capriciously used and discarded by a callous but dynamic system'. Revered and romanticized by some as the prototype of free man, he is hated and feared by others for his nonconformity. In order to trace the origins of the various types of hobo and their effect on American life, Kenneth Allsop travelled 9,000 miles across the continent, following old hobo routes, interviewing and researching as he went along.

The Best of the Best of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader

Bathroom Readers' Institute
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Author : Bathroom Readers' Institute
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781607106838

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The Best of the Best of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader by Bathroom Readers' Institute Pdf

The wittiest, wackiest, and most popular selections from the last 12 years in the best-selling Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader series. We stuffed the best stuff we’ve ever written into 576 glorious pages. Result: pure bathroom-reading bliss! You’re just a few clicks away from the most hilarious, head-scratching material that has made Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader an unparalleled publishing phenomenon. As always, the articles are divided into short, medium, and long for your sitting convenience. So treat yourself to the best of history, science, politics, and pop culture--plus the dumbest of the dumb crooks, the strangest of the strange lawsuits, and loads more, including . . . * The Barbados Tombs * The Lonely Phone Booth * The Origin of the Supermarket * The History of the IQ Test * Robots in the News * Tennessee’s Body Farm * Happy Donut Day! * The Origin of Nachos * The Birth of the Submarine * A Viewer's Guide to Rainbows * How the Mosquito Changed History And much, much more!