Rapid Rails with Hobo
Author : Jeff Lapides
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 30,23 MB
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ISBN : 0557427533
Author : Jeff Lapides
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 30,23 MB
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ISBN : 0557427533
Author : S. Andrew Granade
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,38 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1580464955
During the Great Depression, Harry Partch rode the railways, following the fruit harvest across the country. From his experience among hoboes he found what he called ""a fountainhead of pure musical Americana."" Although he later wrote immense stage works for instruments of his own creation, he is still regularly called a hobo composer for the compositions that grew out of this period of his life. Yet few have questioned the label''s impact on his musical output, compositional life, and reception. Focusing on Partch the person alongside the cultural icon he represented, this study examines Par.
Author : United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)
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Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 44,57 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Presidents
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Author : United States. President
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Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Presidents
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"Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.
Author : Cecil Rose
Publisher : carl (tuchy) palmieri
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 10,85 MB
Release : 2008-07-09
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781419663185
Reprint of an edition published in New York in 1937 by Oxford University Press.
Author : Tim J Huff
Publisher : Castle Quay Books
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,87 MB
Release : 2008-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1894860659
The winner of 3 book awards as best book in it's category, Bent Hope was born out of Tim Huff’s first twenty years of unique and extensive work among homeless and street-involved youth and adults, in one of North America’s largest urban centres—Toronto, Canada. Bent Hope is a collection of thoughtful narratives birthed beneath crumbling bridges and in the hidden alcoves of darkened alleyways after midnight. These gripping true-life stories surface quietly from unforgiving corridors of fear, hurt and uncertainty—and unexpectedly and supernaturally transform them into fascinating places of intimacy and godly anticipation.
Author : Cynthia C. DeFelice
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,48 MB
Release : 2001-05-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0380733064
When her father kills himself after losing his money in the stock market crash of 1929, twelve-year-old Frances, now a penniless orphan decides to hop abroad a freight train and live the life of a hobo.
Author : Errol Lincoln Uys
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 24,74 MB
Release : 2004-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135942293
Through letters and photographs, profiles teenagers who hopped the freight trains during the Great Depression in order to find adventure, seek employment, or escape poverty.
Author : N Anderson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 39,47 MB
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004670181
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Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 1498 pages
File Size : 35,26 MB
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