336 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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."
Summary
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.
