Likewise in 1934 the U S Bureau of Transient Affairs estimated that there were 1.5 million hoboes riding America's freight trains (Potter 1997, 3). These numerical disparities give some indication of the difficulties in determining the hoboes actual numbers, because their nomadism made the accurate collection of such...
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Hobo, 1894. Hard Times in America. Printer Friendly Version >>>. In the period from 1893 to 1896 America suffered a severe economic meltdown that was ...
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Hoboes is a name coined for men and women, but almost exclusive men that travel as migrant workers or left their friends and family in the depression or after wars when there was no work for them in their home cities. ... Being a Hobo in America was about the ability to claim the American dream in the end by saying,
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Hoboes: Wandering in America, 1870-1940 (Hardcover) ... Wormser explains that American hoboes were compulsively itinerant laborers, with roots extending back to the frontier migrants and Old World wanderers; they took part in America's industrial revolution by building railroads, lumbering, harvesting grain, etc.
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ROLLING NOWHERE: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes; Ted Conover; Vintage; Travel/Adventure; ISBN: 0375727868 ... Conover describes the unique form of camaraderie among hoboes. Like hardened soldiers (which many of them were), hoboes never get too close to one another. The life is too transitory for real friendship...
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<BR>Hoboes fascinated Conover, but he had only encountered them in literature and folksongs. So, he decided to take a year off and ride the rails. Equipped with rummage-store clothing, ... Subtitle: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes ... Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes (Vintage Departures) Cover...
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In St. Louis, Perpetual King Jeff Davis opened the 29th annual “greatest and best” convention of the Hoboes of America. ... stepped on the toes of “King” Jeff Davis of Cincinnati, head of the Hoboes of America, Inc. (TIME, April 26) ...this article about Jeff Davis is directly below... whose Hobo News Review...
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