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One More Train to Ride – The Underground World of Modern American Hoboes

Autor Cliff (oats) Williams
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 sep 2009
One More Train to Ride provides a revealing picture of the American hobo of today, drawn from intimate interviews with fourteen contemporary hoboes. Interspersed with their stories are original hobo poems and songs echoing the ancient lyricism and loneliness of life on the road. This connectivity with the past makes the experiences of these hoboes even more striking, as they ride freight trains and jungle up in hobo camps, light years away from a twenty-first century cyber world-yet touching the very core of American freedom and individualism.Given its evocative link with the past, this book is an important contribution to hobo scholarship. Not as a weighty tome, but in continuing a long tradition of hobo oral history relied on in such classic works as Nels Anderson's The Hobo(1923) and Thomas Minehan's Boy and Girl Tramps of America (1934).
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253216526
ISBN-10: 0253216524
Pagini: 184
Ilustrații: 24 b&w photographs, 1 bibliog.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 233 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press

Cuprins

Foreword by Gyspy MoonIntroductionCatchin' Out for Freedom, Guitar WhiteyThe Texas MadmanWhat Is a Hobo?One More Train to Ride, Hobo Liberty JusticeNew York SlimWhat Is It Like to Be on a Moving Freight Train?Roving, GideonDante FucwhaCatching a Moving BoxcarThe Hobo's Heart, Virginia SlimFrogWaiting for a TrainA Woman on the Go, Cinderbox CindyShaylaPhilosophy of HoboingClearing the Yard, Bo Britt EddieStretchArrestedShanty by the Main, Iowa BlackieHobo MonikersShortstopDrawing by ShortstopIn the JungleSitting Around Our Little Fires, Oklahoma SlimB.PhotosA Hobo StoryThe Hobo and His Bedroll, Bo Britt EddiePreacher SteveGood TurnsMaking a Nighttime Run, The Texas MadmanNew York GrizzlyHobo AdviceThere's a Little Bit of Tex in Me, Hood River BlackieIweganRoll Call of the DepartedA Hobo's Remembrance, Luther the JetRoad HogHobo SongsSoftly by Tracks, Buzz PotterRaquelDeath and Injury on the RailsThe Road to Nowhere, Dr. PoetAdmanHobo's Lament, Virginia SlimA Bindle Stiff's Last Ride, Drummond MansfieldDrawing by Drummond MansfieldAppendix

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An oral history of present day hobo life in stories, poems, songs, and photos