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Sadly, the Depression-era photos, film clips, and stories in Michael Uys and Lexy Lovellâs â
Riding the Railsâ (1998) donât seem much different from those of todayâs victims of a pandemic and a failed economy.
Inspired by Thomas Minehanâs 1934 book, âBoy and Girl Tramps of America,â Uys solicited letters from those who had survived that experience. He received over 3,000 replies.
He and Lovell narrowed these subjects down to 10 men and women â then in their 70s and 80s â who recall the thrill and misery of jumping freight cars, fleeing the brutal railroad police nicknamed âbulls,â enjoying the mixed hospitality of hobo settlements called âjunglesâ where girls sold themselves for 50 cents and you might be killed for your shoes, travelling across the country from one harvest to the next, and hitching rides heading nowhere. One poignantly relates the utter loneliness felt when dropped off by a driver on a cold nigh