Hoboes
Subtitle: bindlestiffs, fruit tramps, and the harvesting of the West
By: Mark Wyman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780809030217
Subjects: Tramps -- West (U.S.) -- History; Migrant labor -- West (U.S.) -- History; West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890; West (U.S.) -- History -- 1890-1945
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Great expectations; title: "Wheat farms and hoboes go together"; title: The Western hobo; title: "Labor shortage menace" in the Northwest; title: The Northwest becomes an orchard; title: Hoboes battling forest fires; title: King cotton moves West; title: The "Cotton West" reaches Arizona; title: "Beeters"; title: The California garden; title: Mexicans, wobblies, war; title: Arrival of the "gasoline tramps".