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One more train to ride : the underground world of modern American hoboes /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, Clifford, 1943- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, [2003]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Gypsy Moon
  • Catchin' Out for Freedom / Guitar Whitey
  • The Texas Madman
  • What Is a Hobo?
  • One More Train to Ride / Hobo Liberty Justice
  • New York Slim
  • What Is It Like to Be on a Moving Freight Train?
  • Roving / Gideon
  • Dante Fucwha
  • Catching a Moving Boxcar
  • The Hobo's Heart / Virginia Slim
  • Frog
  • Waiting for a Train
  • A Woman on the Go / Cinderbox Cindy
  • Shayla
  • Philosophy of Hoboing
  • Clearing the Yard / Bo Britt Eddie
  • Stretch
  • Arrested
  • Shanty by the Main / Iowa Blackie
  • Hobo Monikers
  • Shortstop
  • Drawing by Shortstop
  • In the Jungle
  • Sitting Around Our Little Fires / Oklahoma Slim
  • B
  • Photos
  • A Hobo Story
  • The Hobo and His Bedroll / Bo Britt Eddie
  • Preacher Steve
  • Good Turns
  • Making a Nighttime Run
  • New York Grizzly
  • Hobo Advice
  • There's a Little Bit of Tex in Me / Hood River Blackie
  • Iwegan
  • Roll Call of the Departed
  • A Hobo's Remembrance
  • Road Hog
  • Hobo Songs
  • Softly by Tracks / Buzz Potter
  • Raquel
  • Death and Injury on the Rails
  • The Road to Nowhere / Dr. Poet
  • Adman
  • Hobo's Lament / Virginia Slim
  • A Bindle Stiff's Last Ride / Drummond Mansfield
  • Drawing by Drummond Mansfield.