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Hobos – The Dust Bowls’s Rail Riders

Hobos. Not bums. Not tramps. Hobos. A 17-year-old kid like Gene Wadsworth who caught his first freight train on a winter’s night in 1932. The pain of being orphaned at age 11 followed him to his uncle’s house in Idaho where five other children needed feeding. Like many of the two million plus hobos, Gene […]