A thorough and honest picture of Depression-era young people forced to ride the rails

In 1933 and 1934, Thomas Minehan, a young sociologist at the University of Minnesota, joined the ranks of a roving army of 250,000 boys and girls torn from thei

In his previous landmark book on youth culture and teen angst, the award-winning England's Dreaming, Jon Savage presented the "definitive history of the English

Through letters and photographs, profiles teenagers who hopped the freight trains during the Great Depression in order to find adventure, seek employment, or es

Draws from oral histories, memoirs, local newspaper reports, and scholarly texts to tell the story of America's Great Depression in the words of people who live