Hoboes Bindlestiffs, Fruit Tramps, and the Harvesting of the West

Name: Hoboes Bindlestiffs, Fruit Tramps, and the Harvesting of the West
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ISBN: 9780809054916

ISBN-10: 0809054914

ISBN-13: 9780809054916

Edition: 2011

Authors: Mark Wyman

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When the railroad stretched its steel rails across the American West in the 1870s, it opened up a vast expanse of territory. Agriculture quickly followed the railroads, making way for Kansas wheat and Colorado sugar beets and Washington apples. With this new agriculture came an unavoidable need for harvest workers. These were not the year-round hired hands but transients who would show up to harvest the crop and then leave when the work was finished. Variously called bindlestiffs, fruit tramps, hoboes, and bums, these menand women and childrenwere vital to the creation of the West and its economy. Amazingly, it is an aspect of Western history that has never been told. In Hoboes:…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 4/26/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Maps


Introduction



Great Expectations



ï¿½Wheat Farms and Hoboes Go Togetherï¿½



The Western Hobo



ï¿½Labor Shortage Menaceï¿½ in the Northwest



The Northwest Becomes an Orchard



Hoboes Battling Forest Fires



King Cotton Moves West



The ï¿½Cotton Westï¿½ Reaches Arizona



ï¿½Beetersï¿½



The California Garden



Mexicans, Wobblies, War



Arrival of the ï¿½Gasoline Trampsï¿½


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index