Hoboes: Bindlestiffs, Fruit Tramps, and the Harvesting of the West by Mark Wyman

Hoboes: Bindlestiffs, Fruit Tramps, and the Harvesting of the West

Mark Wyman

368 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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When the railroad stretched its steel rails across the American West in the 1870s, it opened up a vast expanse of territory with very few people but enormous agricultural potential: a second Western frontier, the garden West. Agriculture quickly f...

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