Tales of an American Hobo

by Charles Elmer Fox

Book Overview

"Reefer Charlie" Fox rode the rails from 1928 to 1939; from 1939 to 1965 he hitched rides in automobiles and traveled by foot. From Indiana to British Columbia, from Arkansas to Texas, from Utah to Mexico, he was part of the grand hobo tradition that has all but passed away from American life.

He camped in hobo jungles, slept under bridges and in sand houses at railroad yards, ate rattlesnake meat, fresh California grapes, and fish speared...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877452520
• ISBN13: 9780877452522
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Tales of An American Hobo review

Tales of an American Hobo was a collection of short stories about the life of a Hobo. This book taught me a lot of lessons in life one being, "Treat everyone with the respect that you would liked to be treated with." The hobo in this book was always disrespected and discriminated against in his life. The cops in the towns that he traveled to would tell him to leave and never come back. They didn't even give him a chance to start over and get his life going. He meet some nice people on his journey. He was as kind as possible to them and never took more than he would need to survive. There were the other people who tricked him into thinking that they where nice and gave him water that was bad and made him sick.