While researching his first book he rode on freight trains back and forth across the western United States with some of the country's last remaining hoboes. |
The son of a Massachusetts Republican lawyer, at Yale studying economics in the 1930s, he campaigned for union rights for college staff, and spent summers in factories and among hoboes. |
However, the barn and fields were a different world, populated by hired men who were hoboes, drifting in during the Great Depression. |
Indeed, from hangmen, Copper Kings, scientists, and artists to hoboes, harlots, and homesteaders, we enjoyed Montana and western history in all its varied aspects. |
Back in my teens, I'd have dreams where all I did was run around grabbing boobies and reciting poetry to hoboes. |
She is best known for her paintings and drawings of working women, hoboes, and students. |