Tales of an American hobo [[electronic resource] /] / by Charles Elmer Fox ; preface by Albert E. Stone ; introduction by Lynne M. Adrian |
Autore | Fox Charles Elmer |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 1989 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxiii, 226 pages) |
Disciplina |
305.5/68
305.568 917.30491 |
Collana | Singular lives : the Iowa series in North American autobiography |
Soggetto topico | Tramps - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-58729-069-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface; Introduction; Tales of an American Hobo; Hoboes; Becoming a Hobo; The Denver Suit; Hitting the Cow at Lebec; Klamath Indians at the Dam; The Jews In The Roadside Park; Swimming in the Ocean in Oregon; End of Steel At Prince George; Stealing the Burritos At Midway; Mungo Shaving the Tramp; Bacon Butts; The First Ogden Fiasco; From St. Louis to Monet; Climbing Sherman Hill; Cotton Picker Hunter; The Three-inch Drop; Ghost Town Killer; Hair Tonic; Wild Wheat; Chicken Dumplings; The Minnesota Killer; Beeg Sneek Peek Lil Boy; Prickly Pears and Barrel Cactus; The Gyp Water
The Sidewinder The Brownsville Bull; Here and There, Off and On, Now and Then; The Hobo Bed; Soup Bean Annie; The Monster of Oconto County; My Life as a Gypsy; The Jungle Benefactor At St. Joe; Between a Rock and a Hard Place; The Burning Boxcar; We're all the Way from Terre Haute; The Tarantulas of Texas; The First Vegetarian I Ever Met; Green Bay Jack; Death in the Lumber Car; Eating Rattlesnake; Good Days and Bad With Hoboes and Do-Gooders; Sandhouse Hotel; Notes on Hobo Jungles; Big Fish and Soap Bubble Prosperity; The Turkeys of Kanawha River ""Ka-Know-Ee"" The Lord was with Me that Night Catching the Manifest at Naptown; Clothes Make the Man; Hobo Life; The Second Ogden Fiasco; The Man with the White Eyes; Dingbats on the Road; Old Yellow Hair, Reefer, and Friends; Where did they go?; The Fast Buck Hustlers; The Switch Dolly Dive; A Pistol-packing Mama; The Medicine of State House Park; The Rocks of Black River; The Effingham Flying Bath; Unwritten Law of the West; I Saw Them in the Moonlight; The Kingdom of Market and Broadway; The Hobo Aristocrat; Heir to Eads bridge; Abalone Bay; Terre Haute Bos, Tramps, and the Boosters The Soup was too Rich for MeThat Important Brake Shoe Key; The Amazing Men of the Road; The Hobo Preacher; The Hobo Horse Doctor; He Cured the Malaria; The Fight at the Brooklyn Yards; River Tramps or Johnboat Hoboes; The Stick on the Coffee Pot; Essay on the American Hoboes and Tramps; Personal Hygiene and Maental Cleanliness; The Last Hobo; Railroad Lingo and Duties; Tribute to Tommy Connors; The All-Time Hobo King; The Rats were Too Big; The Iowa Kid from Hollywood; The Drunk in the Casket; Old Shanty Town; Jeff Carr; Survival; Hobo Cookery and Tricks of the Road; The Road Dogs of Long Ago Hobo History The Sundown Gang; Mainline Slim |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456447603321 |
Fox Charles Elmer
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 1989 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Tales of an American hobo / / Charles Elmer Fox ; preface by Albert E. Stone ; introduction by Lynne M. Adrian |
Autore | Fox Charles Elmer |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Iowa City : , : University of Iowa Press, , 1989 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxiii, 226 pages) |
Disciplina |
305.5/68
305.568 917.30491 |
Collana | Singular lives : the Iowa series in North American autobiography |
Soggetto topico | Tramps - United States |
ISBN | 1-58729-069-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface; Introduction; Tales of an American Hobo; Hoboes; Becoming a Hobo; The Denver Suit; Hitting the Cow at Lebec; Klamath Indians at the Dam; The Jews In The Roadside Park; Swimming in the Ocean in Oregon; End of Steel At Prince George; Stealing the Burritos At Midway; Mungo Shaving the Tramp; Bacon Butts; The First Ogden Fiasco; From St. Louis to Monet; Climbing Sherman Hill; Cotton Picker Hunter; The Three-inch Drop; Ghost Town Killer; Hair Tonic; Wild Wheat; Chicken Dumplings; The Minnesota Killer; Beeg Sneek Peek Lil Boy; Prickly Pears and Barrel Cactus; The Gyp Water
The Sidewinder The Brownsville Bull; Here and There, Off and On, Now and Then; The Hobo Bed; Soup Bean Annie; The Monster of Oconto County; My Life as a Gypsy; The Jungle Benefactor At St. Joe; Between a Rock and a Hard Place; The Burning Boxcar; We're all the Way from Terre Haute; The Tarantulas of Texas; The First Vegetarian I Ever Met; Green Bay Jack; Death in the Lumber Car; Eating Rattlesnake; Good Days and Bad With Hoboes and Do-Gooders; Sandhouse Hotel; Notes on Hobo Jungles; Big Fish and Soap Bubble Prosperity; The Turkeys of Kanawha River ""Ka-Know-Ee"" The Lord was with Me that Night Catching the Manifest at Naptown; Clothes Make the Man; Hobo Life; The Second Ogden Fiasco; The Man with the White Eyes; Dingbats on the Road; Old Yellow Hair, Reefer, and Friends; Where did they go?; The Fast Buck Hustlers; The Switch Dolly Dive; A Pistol-packing Mama; The Medicine of State House Park; The Rocks of Black River; The Effingham Flying Bath; Unwritten Law of the West; I Saw Them in the Moonlight; The Kingdom of Market and Broadway; The Hobo Aristocrat; Heir to Eads bridge; Abalone Bay; Terre Haute Bos, Tramps, and the Boosters The Soup was too Rich for Me; That Important Brake Shoe Key; The Amazing Men of the Road; The Hobo Preacher; The Hobo Horse Doctor; He Cured the Malaria; The Fight at the Brooklyn Yards; River Tramps or Johnboat Hoboes; The Stick on the Coffee Pot; Essay on the American Hoboes and Tramps; Personal Hygiene and Maental Cleanliness; The Last Hobo; Railroad Lingo and Duties; Tribute to Tommy Connors; The All-Time Hobo King; The Rats were Too Big; The Iowa Kid from Hollywood; The Drunk in the Casket; Old Shanty Town; Jeff Carr; Survival; Hobo Cookery and Tricks of the Road; The Road Dogs of Long Ago; Hobo History The Sundown Gang; Mainline Slim |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778730003321 |
Fox Charles Elmer
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Iowa City : , : University of Iowa Press, , 1989 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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