The Last of the Great American Hobos | Smithsonian
There’s a team of archaeologists exploring a hobo jungle at a dig in rural Pennsylvania. It’s easy to feel like the hobo has already passed into history.
A Night In The Hobo Jungle - National Railroad Museum
Learn what life was like as a hobo during the Great Depression when you attend the National Railroad Museum’s A Night In The Hobo Jungle. Participants will speak the hobo language, cook hobo stew, construct Hoover shacks, and listen to railroad stories in our hobo jungle.
Hobo - Wikipedia
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair contains a section in which the main character, Jurgis Rudkus, abandons his family in Chicago and becomes a hobo for a while. Lonesome Traveler , by Jack Kerouac ("The Vanishing American Hobo")
Train hopping: Why do hobos risk their lives to ride the rails?
2012年12月19日 · He is sitting round a campfire, along with many similarly raggedy hobos in what is known as a hobo jungle. But these particular men and women are all guests at the National Hobo Convention,...
An Intimate Look Into the Life of Hobos - History Collection
A hobo is a migrant worker or homeless vagabond. The term originated in the United States around 1890. Hobos, unlike ‘tramps’ or ‘bums,’ are traveling workers.
Mansfield’s Hobo Jungles: Part 1 – Richland County History
2019年7月10日 · The site of Mansfield’s biggest hobo jungle can be found today along the Richland B&O Trail, just south of the huge Park Avenue West bridge. The site was attractive to hobos because the train had to slow down as it entered Mansfield, making it was easier to …
Hobo Communications: A Brief History of Hobos and Their Signs
2021年8月4日 · Perhaps experienced hobos told young men what to look for as they traveled in a boxcar or sat at the campfire of a hobo jungle near a train yard. The signs relayed information concerning a variety of topics important to the hobo.
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