Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression by Errol Lincoln Uys, Linco Uys Errol
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Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression Errol Lincoln Uys, Linco Uys Errol ebook
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Format: pdf
Page: 336
ISBN: 9780415945752
Mar 25, 2012 - Many banks failed during the Great Depression because many debtors were not able to pay back loans. Book: In the 1906 book “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair, the main character temporarily leaves his family after a string of tragedies, to lead a hobo's During the Great Depression, hobo numbers soared as men – and families – moved around the country in search of work. A sampler: Film: The 1933 “Wild Boys of the Road” focused on the dangers of rail riding, which inspired even more of it among Depression-era teens. Gilsaw must have lost his employment and perhaps his property, and, at least for a time, found himself forced to shift across the landscape, riding the rails with countless other displaced persons and hobos, in search of work and a future. Mar 4, 2013 - But the good news is that we may now say that the long-forgotten fiddler who was “bumming” in mid-Missouri during the Great Depression and paused in Montgomery City to play a few tunes was named Gilsaw. First, they'd take your farm, then they took your livestock, then your farm machinery. My view is that it is right that men can become rich by their own action, but it is wrong that a wealth class is created who are born into wealth and go to great lengths to preserve that wealth at the expense of the rest of us. How was Leah rewarded for her efforts to Rudy Rides the Rails: A Depression Era Story (Tales of Young Americans). Aug 21, 2011 - Hobos in pop culture. The farmers were almost united. A long-term stay in a four-star luxury rehab facility in southern California reportedly costing $450,000 annually where his recovery will possibly include horseback riding and time spent in a “state-of-the-art” gym. And by including the He's out of business, and it's still hung over him. Apr 11, 2009 - It's one thing to read about the Great Depression in textbooks, or to hear it used as leverage in political speeches, but it's another thing entirely to read the experiences of the people who lived through it. Excerpt from Amazon: In 1932 A distraught Bonnie determines to take her dog, Caesar, and go find her daddy! In her search, Bonnie discovers That means she spent her entire teens years during the Great Depression.