Tales of an American hobo / by Charles Elmer Fox ; preface by Albert E. Stone ; introduction by Lynne M. Adrian.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxii-xxiii).

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"Reefer Charlie" Fox rode the rails from 1928 to 1939; from 1939 to 1965 he hitched rides in automobiles and traveled by foot. From Indiana to British Columbia, from Arkansas to Texas, from Utah to Mexico, he was part of the grand hobo tradition that has all but passed away from American life. He camped in hobo jungles, slept under bridges and in sand houses at railroad yards, ate rattlesnake meat, fresh California grapes, and fish speared by the Indians of the Northwest. He quickly learned both the beauty and the dangers of his chosen way of life. One lesson learned early on.

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

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