This book explores the diversity of meanings that accrue around the terms 'hobo', 'tramp', and 'vagabond'.

The most enduring version of the hobo that has come down from the so-called 'Golden Age of Tramping' (1890s to 1940s) is an American cultural icon, signifying f

"Tramping with Tramps: Studies and Sketches of Vagabond Life" by Josiah Flynt. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompa

In the years following the Civil War, a veritable army of homeless men swept across America's "wageworkers' frontier" and forged a beguiling and bedeviling coun