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Ted Conover - Rolling Nowhere. Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes is a nonfiction book by journalist and professor Ted Conover based on his undergraduate ethnography research on the life and travel experiences of 1980s railroad hoboes in the Western United States.
The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail is the first book by Salvadoran journalist Óscar Martínez. [2] The book was originally published in Spanish in 2010 as Los migrantes que no importan (The Migrants that Don't Matter). It was translated into English in 2013 by Daniela Maria Ugaz and John B. Washington.
Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression: Routledge. ISBN 0415945755 The Great Depression - The Story of 250,000 Teenagers Who Left Home and Ride the Rails "Riding the Rails", American Experience PBS series. Conover, Ted (2001). Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America’s Hoboes. Vintage.
Visitors riding “Rail Explorers” pedal over train tracks on Friday, Aug. 4, 2023 at the Bluegrass Scenic Railroad and Museum in Versailles, Ky. ... Kentuckians will be able to book their tours ...
Riding the rail (also called being "run out of town on a rail") was a punishment most prevalent in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries in which an offender was made to straddle a fence rail held on the shoulders of two or more bearers. The subject was then paraded around town or taken to the city limits and dumped by the roadside.
Until TransCanada's political hot potato, the Keystone XL Pipeline project, is given the green light, Canadian oil sands producers have to find other ways to get their oil to the lucrative Gulf ...
Riding the Rails is a 1938 Fleischer Studios animated short film featuring Betty Boop and Pudgy the Pup. [1] Although some sources claim that this film was nominated for an Academy Award, [2] it does not appear in the official Academy Awards database, [3] apparently being confused with "Ridin' the Rails", which was nominated for Best One-Reel (Live Action) Short Subject at the 1951 Academy Awards.
Iron Rails, Iron Men, and the Race to Link the Nation: The Story of the Transcontinental Railroad is a 2015 non-fiction children's book by American writer and historian Martin W. Sandler. The book details the creation of the transcontinental railroad through competing companies, including "the greed, corruption, and violence that followed the ...