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Author	Wyman, Mark.
Title	Hoboes : bindlestiffs, fruit tramps, and the harvesting of the West / Mark Wyman.
Publication Info.	New York : Hill and Wang, 2010.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 3	305.5 W	IN LIBRARY

Edition	1st ed.
Description	336 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Great expectations -- "Wheat farms and hoboes go together" -- The Western hobo -- "Labor shortage menace" in the Northwest -- The Northwest becomes an orchard -- Hoboes battling forest fires -- King cotton moves West -- The "Cotton West" reaches Arizona -- "Beeters" -- The California garden -- Mexicans, Wobblies, war -- Arrival of the "gasoline tramps."
Subject	Tramps -- West (U.S.) -- History.
	Migrant labor -- West (U.S.) -- History.
	West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890.
	West (U.S.) -- History -- 1890-1945.
Added Title	Bindlestiffs, fruit tramps, and the harvesting of the West
ISBN	9780809030217 (hbk. : alk. paper)
	0809030217 (hbk. : alk. paper)

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