Bibliograph

Hoboes, bindlestiffs, fruit tramps, and the harvesting of the West, Mark Wyman

Type

Label

Hoboes, bindlestiffs, fruit tramps, and the harvesting of the West, Mark Wyman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

portraitsmapsplatesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Hoboes

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

366469010

Responsibility statement

Mark Wyman

Sub title

bindlestiffs, fruit tramps, and the harvesting of the West

Summary

A revisionist history of the American West traces how the railroad led to new agricultural opportunities, including the migrations of innumerable harvest workers who contributed to the region's settlement and fledgling economy

Table Of Contents

Great expectations -- "Wheat farms and hoboes go together" -- The Western hobo -- "Labor shortage menace" in the Northwest -- The Northwest becomes an orchard -- Hoboes battling forest fires -- King cotton moves West -- The "Cotton West" reaches Arizona -- "Beeters" -- The California garden -- Mexicans, Wobblies, war -- Arrival of the "gasoline tramps."

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