Mark Wyman
Auteur van Hoboes: Bindlestiffs, Fruit Tramps, and the Harvesting of the West
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Mark Wyman is a professor emeritus of history at Illinois State University. He is the author of six books on labor, frontier, and immigration history.
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Hoboes: Bindlestiffs, Fruit Tramps, and the… door Mark Wyman
The book is well researched and well written but the title is a bit misleading. The hoboes and other rootless wanderers are depicted as playing a secondary role in the agricultural settlement of the western US, so really what the story is about is settlement of the US West. The immigrants, the farmers, the influence of the railroads and how the whole agricultural part of the history of the region came together. Worth reading, but you are not going to find out too much about the hoboes, and really nothing much about them in the Great Depression - the time period covered is nineteenth century settlement, on into the 1920's.… (meer)
What I wrote right after finishing this book was that it tells the story of the other side of European immigration into the US, and how many only came to earn money that they were unable to do at home, intending to return as soon as they accomplished their goal. Contained many tidbits and insights into the entire immigration era, including those that wound up staying anyway. Read as part of my research into my Italian family history.
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- 7
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- 230
- Populariteit
- #97,994
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- 4.0
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- 2
- ISBNs
- 19