The American Experience - Riding the Rails

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Title

The American Experience - Riding the Rails

Subject

history
culture

Description

A documentary about hobo history and hobo life. Interviews from people who rode the rails who explain their reasons for hoboing. Interviewees describe their experiences being incarserated for vagrancy and frieght hopping. Narrated by historian David McCullough.

Publisher

Collinwood Kid
The Pied Piper

Date

1997

Contributor

Collinwood Kid and The Pied Piper

Rights

National Hobo Convention's Video Library

Relation

National Hobo Convention's Hobo Video Library

Format

film

Language

English

Type

moving image

Duration

01:57:44

Citation

“The American Experience - Riding the Rails,” Hobo Archive, accessed April 19, 2025, http://hoboarchive.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/557.