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  • Wyman, Mark
     
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  • Tramps -- West (U.S.) -- History.
     
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  • Migrant labor -- West (U.S.) -- History.
     
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  • West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890.
     
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  • West (U.S.) -- History -- 1890-1945.
     
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    Hoboes : bindlestiffs, fruit tramps, and the harvesting of the West / Mark Wyman.
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  • Tramps -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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  • Migrant labor -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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  • West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890.
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  • West (U.S.) -- History -- 1890-1945.
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    New York : Hill and Wang, 2010.
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    1st ed.
    Description: 
    336 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
    ISBN: 
    9780809030217
    0809030217
    9780809054916
    0809054914
    Contents: 
    Great expectations -- "Wheat farms and hoboes go together" -- The Western hobo -- "Labor shortage menace" in the Northwest -- The Northwest becomes an orchard -- Hoboes battling forest fires -- King cotton moves West -- The "Cotton West" reaches Arizona -- "Beeters" -- The California garden -- Mexicans, Wobblies, war -- Arrival of the "gasoline tramps."
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    A revisionist history of the American West traces how the railroad led to new agricultural opportunities, including the migrations of innumerable harvest workers who contributed to the region's settlement and fledgling economy.
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