| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
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data file rda |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 12, 2018). |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Tight Squeeze; William Staats; Only a Tramp; Unknown; Leaves from a Diary: A Tramp Around the World; Sam Clover; Hobo John; Unknown; A Watch-Night Service in San Francisco; Morley Roberts; The Dying Hobo / Streams of Whiskey (The Hobo's Last Lament); Unknown; Two Thousand Stiffs; Jack London; ARU; Unknown; One Night on the "Q"; Josiah Flynt; The Wabash Cannonball; Unknown; In Partnership with a Burglar; Leon Livingston; The Poor Tramp Has to Live; Unknown; The Camp; William Henry Davies; Railroad Bill; Unknown |
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You Can't WinJack Black; Big Rock Candy Mountain; Unknown; Death at My Feet; William Z. Foster; My Wandering Boy; Unknown; Tramping on Life: An Autobiographical Narrative; Harry Kemp; Can I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight, Mister; Unknown; Autobiography; Carl Panzram; The Swede from North Dakota; Unknown; The Journey Overland; Windy Bill (Ben Goodkind); Hallelujah, Bum Again; Unknown; Thieves and Vagabonds; Jim Tully; Experience; Unknown; IWW "Red Special" Overall Brigade; J.H. Walsh; The Gila Monster Route; Glen Norton and L.F. Post; The Little Pittsburg of the West and Its Great Wrong |
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Edwin BrownThe Bum; Arturo Giovannitti; San Diego Free Speech Fight; Alfred Tucker; The Dishwasher; Jim Seymour; Riding the Rods; Glen H. Mullin; Peripeties; Haralambos Kambouris; Rambling Kid; Charles Ashleigh; Hash; Henry Herbert Knibbs; Liver à la Carte: A True Story of a Camp Kitchen; T. O'Donnell; Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay; Joe Hill; The Modern Agricultural Slave; E.W. Latchem; The Harvest Stiff's Tipperary; Pat Brennan; The Susquehanna Flats; William J. Quirke; The Mysteries of a Hobo's Life (The Job I Left Behind Me); T-Bone Slim; The Main Stem; William Edge |
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The Bum on the Rods and the Bum on the PlushW. E. Jones; Siberian Methods in the United States: Schuettler's Spring Drive; D.M.C.; The Hobo College Yell; Bert L. Weber; Lady Hoboes; Samuel Milton Elam; The Road Kid's Song; Unknown; Blood on the Forge; William Attaway; The Timberbeast's Lament; Unknown; Bottom Dogs; Edward Dahlberg; Hobo Convention Song; George Liebst; Johnson the Gyppo; Ralph Winstead (William Akers); The Labor Shark (After Coleridge); Edward Connor; In a Southern Prison Camp; Isaac H. Schwartz; The Great American Bum; Unknown; A Day in the Jungle; A.W. Dragstedt |
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The Mulligan StewUnknown; The Hobo: The Sociology of the Homeless Man; Nels Anderson; Wild and Reckless Hobo; George Reneau / Traditional; The Passenger Stiff; Henri Tascheraud; Frisco Whistle Blues; Ed Bell; Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha; Ben Reitman; Hobo Blues; Peg Leg Howell; Back Door Guest; James Lennox Kerr; Railroadin' Some; Henry Thomas; The Casanovas of Illinois; Barbara Starke; The T and P Line; Unknown; Hungry Men; Tom Kromer; No Room for a Tramp; Roy Harvey; Bumming in California; Eluard Luchel McDaniel; Toledo Slim; Unknown; The Battle of East St. Louis |
| Summary |
The first anthology of its kind, On The Fly! collects dozens of stories, poems, songs, stories, and articles produced by hoboes to create an insider history of the subculture's rise and fall. Adrenaline-charged tales of train hopping, scams, and political agitation are combined with humorous and satirical songs, razor sharp reportage and unique insights into the lives of the women and men who crisscrossed America in search of survival and adventure. With little of the original memoirs, literature, and verse remaining in print, this collection, aided by a glossary of hobo vernacular and numerous illustrations and photos, provides a comprehensive and entertaining guide to the life and times of a uniquely American icon. |
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Tramps in literature.
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Homelessness in literature.
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Marginality, Social, in literature.
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Hobo songs.
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Tramps -- United States -- History.
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Rogues and vagabonds in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Hobo songs. (OCoLC)fst00958533
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Homelessness in literature. (OCoLC)fst00959572
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Marginality, Social, in literature. (OCoLC)fst01009175
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Tramps. (OCoLC)fst01154474
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Tramps in literature. (OCoLC)fst01154482
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
poetry.
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novels.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Poetry.
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Fiction.
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Novels.
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| Added Author |
McIntyre, Iain, 1970- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: On the fly!. Oakland, CA : PM Press, [2018] 1629635189 9781629635187 (OCoLC)1005192621 |
| ISBN |
9781629635644 (electronic book) |
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1629635642 (electronic book) |
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9781629635484 (Mobipocket electronic book) |
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1629635480 (Mobipocket electronic book) |
