Hoboes

Bindlestiffs, Fruit Tramps, and the Harvesting of the West

By: Mark Wyman

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Paperback | 1 April 2011 | Edition Number 1

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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 men—and women and children—were 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: Bindlestiffs, Fruit Tramps, and the Harvesting of the West, the award-winning historian Mark Wyman offers a detailed, deeply sympathetic portrait of the lives of these hoboes, as well as a fresh look at the settling and development of the American West.

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"Eye-opening, even for students and scholars familiar with the history of hoboes in agriculture from the end of the Civil War to the 1920s... Hoboes moves ahead with energy and clarity. There are wonderful anecdotes throughout." (JONAH RASKIN, San Francisco Chronicle)"

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Maps	p. viii
Introduction	p. 3
Great Expectations	p. 9
ôWheat Farms and Hoboes Go Togetherö	p. 25
The Western Hobo	p. 42
ôLabor Shortage Menaceö in the Northwest	p. 60
The Northwest Becomes an Orchard	p. 82
Hoboes Battling Forest Fires	p. 100
King Cotton Moves West	p. 113
The ôCotton Westö Reaches Arizona	p. 140
ôBeetersö	p. 170
The California Garden	p. 199
Mexicans, Wobblies, War	p. 228
Arrival of the ôGasoline Trampsö	p. 257
Notes	p. 277
Acknowledgments	p. 321
Index	p. 323
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