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Riding The Rails With America's Hoboes
Vintage
September 2001
On Sale: September 11, 2001
304 pages
ISBN: 0375727868
EAN: 9780375727863
Kindle: B009ZN1KZC
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Non-Fiction
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, a bedroll, and a few other belongings, he hops a
freight train in St. Louis, becoming a tramp in order to
discover their peculiar culture. The men and women he meets
along the way are by turns generous and mistrusting,
resourceful and desperate, philosophical and profoundly
cynical. And the narrative he creates of his travels with
them is unforgettable and moving.
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