One More Train to Ride The Underground World of Modern American Hoboes [Paperback]

Drawn from intimate interviews with 14 modern-day steel rail nomads, One More Train to Ride provides a revealing picture of todays American hobo. Interspersed with their stories are original poems and songs echoing the ancient lyricism and loneliness of life on the road. Their connections with the past make the experiences of these hoboes even more striking, as they ride freight trains and jungle up in hobo camps, light years away from the 21st-century cyberworldyet touching the very core of American freedom and individualism.

Cliff Williams skillfully elicits details of family background, motives, and clear insights into the daily life and philosophy of the modern hobo. With its evocative link to the past, One More Train to Ride continues a long tradition of books on hobo oral history, including Nels Andersons The Hobo (1923) and Thomas Minehans Boy and Girl Tramps of America (1934).

Table of Contents
Foreword Gyspy Moon
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Catchin' Out for Freedom, Guitar Whitey
The Texas Madman
What Is a Hobo?
One More Train to Ride, Hobo Liberty Justice
New York Slim
What Is It Like to Be on a Moving Freight Train?
Roving, Gideon
Dante Fucwha
Catching a Moving Boxcar
The Hobo's Heart, Virginia Slim
Frog
Waiting for a Train
A Woman on the Go, Cinderbox Cindy
Shayla
Philosophy of Hoboing
Clearing the Yard, Bo Britt Eddie
Stretch
Arrested
Shanty by the Main, Iowa Blackie
Hobo Monikers
Shortstop
Drawing by Shortstop
In the Jungle
Sitting Around Our Little Fires, Oklahoma Slim
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Photos
A Hobo Story
The Hobo and His Bedroll, Bo Britt Eddie
Preacher Steve
Good Turns
Making a Nighttime Run, The Texas Madman
New York Grizzly
Hobo Advice
There's a Little Bit of Tex in Me, Hood River Blackie
Iwegan
Roll Call of the Departed
A Hobo's Remembrance, Luther the Jet
Road Hog
Hobo Songs
Softly by Tracks, Buzz Potter
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